I celebrate myself

Experiments with celebration

The Meditation Second for now:

Celebrating oneself

Benefits:

There is always a chance to celebrate, since celebration is a state of mind and - when being aware - a state of being. This Meditation Second is suggesting to find something to celebrate every moment: oneself ?! Turn your awareness towards yourself and celebrate your energy and being.

Osho: I celebrate myself - 

celebrate yourself, too!

When everybody is celebrating...

"I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?

No chance for violence

The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration.

Create and celebrate!

Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.

Meeting the ultimate by celebration

When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death."

Osho, excerpted from I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here, Chapter 4

What is there to celebrate?

Question to Osho

“Osho, you go on telling us to celebrate life. What is there to celebrate?” 

I can understand. His question is relevant. There seems to be nothing to celebrate. What is there to celebrate? His question is your question, is everybody’s question.

Each moment is so fantastic

But reality is just the contrary. There is everything to celebrate. Each moment is so immense, is so fantastic, each moment brings such an ecstasy, but you are asleep. The ecstasy comes, hovers around you and goes. The breeze comes, dances around you and goes, and you remain asleep. The flowers bloom and the fragrance comes to you, but you are asleep. God goes on singing in a thousand and one ways, God dances around you, but you are asleep.

What is'nt there to celebrate?

You ask me, “What is there to celebrate?” What isn’t there to celebrate? There is everything that one can imagine. There is everything that one can desire. And it is more than you can imagine. It is in abundance. Life is a luxury!"

Osho, excerpted from Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol. 1, Chapter 11