"It is possible, because celebrating is an attitude, you can adopt an attitude of celebration even with regard to suffering, for example: you are sad, do not identify with sadness, become your witness and enjoy the moment of sadness, because sadness has your own beauty, you have never observed it, you identify so much that you have never penetrated the beauty of a moment of sadness, if you observe, you will be surprised to discover all the treasures that you have been missing. When you are sad, sadness has depth, happiness is superficial, see and see happy people, the so-called happy people-playboys or playgirls, you will find them in clubs, in hotels, in theaters, they are always laughing and bubbling You will always see them superficial, frivolous, lacking depth, happiness is like the waves on the surface, you live a superficial life, but the sadness is profound. When you are sad, it is not like the waves on the surface; it is like the depth of the Pacific Ocean; kilometers and kilometers.
Enter that depth, observe it. Happiness is noisy; sadness entails a silence. Happiness can be like the day; Sadness is like night. Happiness can be like light; Sadness is like darkness. The light comes and goes; the darkness remains, it is eternal. Light sometimes appears; darkness is always present. If you enter sadness, you will feel all this. Suddenly you will realize that sadness is like an object; You are watching and contemplating and suddenly you will begin to feel happy. What a wonderful sadness! A flower of darkness, a flower of the eternal depths. Like an abyss without fondness, silent and musical; without any noise, without alterations. One can fall and fall eternally in it and come out absolutely rejuvenated. It is a rest.
It depends on the attitude. When you get sad you think something bad has happened. You interpret that something bad has happened to you and then you start to escape. Never meditate on it. So you want to go somewhere, to a party, to the club, turn on the television or radio, or start reading the newspaper; something to be able to forget. This is an inadequate attitude that has been implanted in you: sadness is a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with her. It is the other pole of life.
Happiness is a pole; sadness the other. Bliss is a pole; the other suffering. Life consists of both; Life is a ritual because of both. A life of joy alone would have extension, but not depth. A life of sadness alone would have depth, but it would have no extension. A life of sadness and joy is multidimensional. It covers all dimensions simultaneously. Look at the Buddha statue, or look at me, when you can, in the eyes and you will find them both: a joy, a peace; and also a sadness. You will discover that happiness also contains sadness, because that sadness gives it depth. Look at the statue of the Buddha: happy, but still sad. The very word "sad" implies wrong connotations: there is something wrong. This is your interpretation.
For me, life is in its entirety good. And when you fully understand life, only then can you celebrate. If not, you can not. Celebrate means: whatever happens, it is irrelevant; I will celebrate it. The celebration does not depend on anything. Neither "When I'm happy, then I'll celebrate," or "When I'm unhappy, then I will not celebrate." The celebration is unconditional. I celebrate life. If it brings me unhappiness, okay; I celebrate it. If it brings me happiness, okay; I celebrate it. The celebration is my unconditional attitude to what life presents to me.
But a problem arises, because when I use words, those words have certain connotations in your mind. When I say "celebrate", you believe that one must be happy. So how can you celebrate when you're sad? I'm not telling you that you should be happy to celebrate. The celebration is to thank everything that life gives. Whatever God gives you, the celebration is gratitude, it is gratitude. I told you and I'll tell you again ...
There was a very poor Sufi mystic who felt hungry, rejected, tired of traveling. One night he came to a town and the town did not accept him. The town was of Orthodox people and when there are Orthodox Muslims it is very difficult to convince them. They did not even want to give him shelter in the city. The night was cold and he was tired, hungry and shaking because he was not wearing enough clothes. He sat on the outskirts of the city, under a tree. His disciples were sitting with him in great sadness, depressed, and even angry. And then he began to pray saying to God, "You're wonderful! You always give me what I need." This was too much A disciple said to him, "Wait, you have gone too far, especially tonight, those words are hollow, we are hungry, tired, without clothes and a cold night is approaching, there are wild animals here and we have been expelled from the city and we are without shelter, why do you thank God? What do you mean when you say, "You always give me what I need?" The mystic replied, "Yes, I will repeat it again: God gives me everything I need." Tonight I needed poverty, tonight I needed to be rejected, this night I needed to be hungry, in danger. I do not need it, I need it and I have to feel very pleased, he takes care of me very well, it's really wonderful! " This is an attitude that does not care about the situation. The situation is not important.
Celebrates; whatever it is. If you are sad, then celebrate being sad. Try it. Take a test and it will surprise you; happens. You're sad? He starts dancing, because sadness is really beautiful, it is a silent flower of being. Dance, enjoy and suddenly you will feel that the sadness is disappearing; a distance is being created. Slowly, you forget the sadness and celebrate. You will have transformed the energy. This is what "alchemy" means: transforming the coarse metal into precious gold. The sadness, the anger, the jealousy, ... all the crude metals can be transformed into gold because they are made up of the same constituents as gold. There is no difference between gold and iron because they have the same constituents, the same electrons. Have you ever thought that a piece of coal and the largest diamond in the world are simply the same? They are not different. Actually, the carbon compressed by the earth for millions of years becomes a diamond. The difference is only in the pressure, but both are carbon dioxide, both are made up of the same elements.
The lower can be transformed into the higher. In the inferior, nothing is missing. Only a reordering is needed; recompose it That is what "alchemy" means. When you are sad, celebrate it and you will be recomposing the sadness. You will be contributing something to the sadness and this will be transformed. You will be giving him celebration. You're angry? Start dancing At first there will be anger. You will start dancing and the dance will be aggressive, violent, angry. Slowly it will begin to soften more and more and suddenly you will have forgotten the anger. The energy will have transformed into dance.
But when you're angry you do not stop to think about dancing. When you are sad, you can not think of singing. Why not make your sadness a song? Sing, play the flute. At first the notes will be sad, but there is nothing wrong with a sad note. Have you heard some afternoons when it's hot, when everything burns, when there's fire around you, suddenly from a grove of mangoes you hear a cuckoo sing? At first, the note is sad. He is calling his beloved, his love, on a hot afternoon. Everything is burning and she is sighing for love. It is a very sad note, but very beautiful. Little by little, the lover begins to respond from another grove. Now it is no longer a hot afternoon; everything is cooling in the depths of the heart. Now the note is different. When the lover responds, everything changes. It is an alchemical change.
You're sad? Begin to sing, to pray, to dance. Do what you can do and, little by little, the inferior metal will transform into a superior metal the gold. Once you discover the secret, your life will never be the same again. You can open any door. And this is the master key: celebrate everything.
... No death is death, because all deaths open a new door; they are a principle For life there is no end; there is always a new beginning, a resurrection.
If you transform your sadness into celebration, then you will also be able to transform your death into a resurrection. So learn art while you have time. Do not let death come before you have learned the secret alchemy of transforming the lower metal into superior metal, because if you can change the sadness, you can change the death. If you can celebrate without conditions, when death comes you will be able to laugh, you will be able to celebrate it; you will leave with a smile. And when you can live celebrating, death can not kill you. On the contrary, you will kill death. But start, try. You have nothing to lose. But people are so stupid that even if there is nothing to lose, they do not try. What can you lose?
If you are sad, then I tell you to celebrate, to dance, to sing. What can you lose? At most, you will lose the sadness; nothing else. But you think it is impossible. And the very idea that it is impossible does not allow you to try it. And I tell you that it is one of the easiest things in the world, because the energy is neutral. The same energy is transformed into sadness; the same energy is what is transformed into anger; the same energy is what becomes sexuality; the same energy is transformed into compassion; the same energy is what becomes meditation. The energy is one. You do not have different kinds of energies. You do not have the energy in separate compartments in which one energy is labeled as "sadness" and another energy is labeled as "happiness". The energies do not exist separately, they are not classified. There are no separate compartments in you. You are simply one. This unique energy becomes sadness, this unique energy is transformed into anger. It depends on you.
You have to learn the secret, the art of how to transform the energies. Just give it a direction and that same energy will start to move. And when there is a possibility of transforming anger into joy, greed into compassion, jealousy into love ... you do not know what you are missing! You do not know what you're missing. You are missing the key to your existence here in this universe. Try it. "Osho, Yoga the Science of the Soul, volume 4.
There are other methods of meditation in the 6 volumes of the Book of Secrets of Osho and in the Orange Book of Osho
This is interesting: to celebrate sadness :)
I think, during the periods of depression or sadness you can realize the importance of being happy and fulfilled. Because of adversity of any form, you will be more grateful when you are happy. Sadness also makes you mature and you realize the reality of this life. You will become more empathic, and you will not care about ordinary, superficial people.