There’s a common understanding that we celebrate when something good has happened. We dress up, bake cakes, invite friends to join us, have tremendous fun, take lots of pictures, and then it’s all over till next time.
Osho has a different proposal: that celebration is our natural state:
“Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration. That’s our natural state – to celebrate – as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state.”
Osho, The Secret of Secrets, Talk #8
“People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always in the future. It is a postponement. They are saying, ‘We cannot enjoy today so we will enjoy tomorrow.’ They are saying, ‘Right this moment we cannot celebrate, so let there be a tomorrow so that we can celebrate.’
“Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration. A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment, he lives it totally. Out of that total living arises the next moment, but it is not out of any lust. Of course, when out of celebration the next moment arises, it has more capacity to bless you. When out of celebration the future arises, it goes on becoming more and more rich. And a moment comes when the moment is so total, so whole, that time completely disappears.
“Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time – time disappears.”
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