Existence is not against enjoyment. The birds are singing, calling their lovers, the peacocks are dancing, rainbows appear in the sky, the silent music of the night and millions of stars… existence is so immensely beautiful. But religions say, "To appreciate beauty, to be sensitive to beauty, is a sin. Even to enjoy your food is a sin" — anything that gives you pleasure, they are all against it — "and you will regret it, one day. It is better to live the life of a desert, not of a garden."
Whatever comes, enjoy it. When it goes and something else comes, enjoy it. Day is beautiful, but night is beautiful in its own way — why not enjoy both? And you can enjoy both only if you are not attached to one.
So only a choiceless person squeezes the juice of life in its totality. He is never miserable. Whatever happens he finds a way to enjoy it. And this is the whole art of life, to find a way to enjoy it. But the basic condition has to be remembered: be choiceless. And you can be choiceless only if you are alert, aware, watchful; otherwise you are going to fall into choice.
So choicelessness and awareness have different meanings in the dictionary, but not in existence. They have the same meaning. Either be choiceless or be aware — it is the same thing. Then you can enjoy everything. When success comes you can enjoy it; when failure comes you can enjoy it. When you are healthy, you can enjoy it; when you are sick you can enjoy it — because you don't have any attachment to anything. You have not put your life into anything — your life is free movement, moving with time, moving with the wheel of existence, keeping pace, never lagging behind.
Life certainly is an art, the greatest art. And the shortest formula is choiceless awareness — applicable to all situations, all problems.
OSHO