Did Buddha really laugh? We have no references to the original Buddha, known as the Gautama Buddha depicted laughing, having fun, or frolicking. However, there have been several aspirants for the title of Buddha, each with different characteristic features. One of them is said to enjoy life laughing out loud.

Gautama Buddha is depicted with a peaceful face and a hint of a radiant smile. This is the image of an enlightened Master. However, lighting does not take away the freedom to laugh and enjoy. In fact, enlightenment makes an individual have an immensely positive outlook with almost all the positive traits that an ideal human being can have. Enjoying life and laughing are positive traits. Therefore, one should not be surprised to learn that there were times when Siddhartha, the Buddha, possibly had laughed along with his disciples with whom he always moved from place to place.

There are two main themes in the life of the Buddha: before and after enlightenment. Before enlightenment, he was a highly accomplished prince who mastered almost every possible learning he had access to. But everything he learned before enlightenment did not completely satisfy his questions. So, he seems to be a genius boy like a prince who had access to all the luxuries and all forms of contemporary learning, but wanted to learn more especially about topics such as pain, suffering, old age, illness and death. You may have laughed during this time, even when you might have been an overly curious child. That is because there is no normal human being who does not laugh. However, we identify some human beings as excessively exuberant full of fun and laughter. It does not seem to belong to this category.

After its enlightenment, it appears enormously transformed. We notice her happily radiant face with a divine smile. He seems to have found answers to your questions and may not have been as inquisitive as he was in his childhood. The answers to the questions he found are not those offered in textbooks, but rather those that are insightful with immanent internal or external sources. This is also not the type of answers that are obtained with the application of inductive and deductive logic, although the framed questions are logical, such as why we are born, why we suffer, why we age and why we die. Science may have answered most of these questions, but science may not be able to give us the bigger picture. Science can give us a causal relationship. Buddha also found a causal relationship between cause and effect where pain, suffering, old age, and disease are effects of a fundamental underlying cause: “desire.” We suffer because we want or because we want to experience pleasure or anything that satisfies our sense organs.

The important point here is that during the post-enlightenment phase of your life, you no longer ask questions, but instead feel satisfied as reflected in your happy smile. This is the smile that says it all. This is the smile that is more powerful than laughter. We laugh because we enjoy or appreciate a joke or a situation or an event. However, when someone begins to enjoy each moment and begins to see the beauty of the world rich in multiple emotions, they would constantly smile. You may have seen that there are some people who have a smiling face because they have a cheerful disposition. They may not be as enlightened as Gautama Buddha, but they have a streak of enlightenment in the sense that their perception of the world is positive.

There is no doubt that Buddha must have really laughed as a child and as an enlightened adult. However, history does not clearly record those moments of laughter in his life because his approach or search was completely different. However, history records certain moments in the company of his disciples when he indulged in light jokes to highlight more serious problems.