Full moon Osho Zen card........

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he is a guru to me and he picked me

I have never been picked by a guru, but I have friends who have. So I get by with a little help from my friends. I was looking for some words for a magic carpet ride this morning and I ran across this. It meant a lot to me at the time, it still does now. On litkicks there was a story about molestation of a child. Teddie wrote it. Everyone was very sympathetic, I tried writing about an expericence I had as a child. Somebody wrote back to me and said I probably enjoyed it. Man I was hurt. I somethow got this message from Cecil he knew how angry I was.

"water on duck's wing
we are all well oiled
drilling is for naught

jack - seriousness is not for the birds, but only we beasts driven by
our
egos into our own circles"

Yes I get by with a little help from my friends
Friendship is my religion.

Homsexuality is normal, I agree. Consenting adults have the right to fuk each other's brains out in any combination. But they should leave the children alone. That is theft of child hood. Same for heterosexuals too.

done ranting be back when I pick my card and random TAO quote for the day.

good morning SooZe, yep you had one nerve left this morning and I got on it. Group minds I don't like. Brooklyn says Cecil and you are his friends. Not sure if Brooklyn is your friend. They used to have a bad group mind problem at litkicks.

[sooZen]

Jack...

Thank you for that random Tao site.



I am friend to all...enemy to none and none is my enemy. Most of the friends I have made on this contraption, remain friends. I don't always agree with my gurus or my friends...

What card did you get you card?

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Yester day I got this one:
58. Going With The Flow



When I say "become water" I mean become a flow; don't remain stagnant. Move, and move like water. Lao Tzu says: The way of the Tao is a watercourse way. It moves like water. What is the movement of water? or of a river? The movement has a few beautiful things about it. One, it always moves towards the depth, it always searches for the lowest ground. It is non-ambitious; it never hankers to be the first, it wants to be the last. Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God. He is talking about the watercourse way of Tao--not mentioning it, but talking about it. Be the last, be non-ambitious. Ambition means going uphill. Water goes down, it searches for the lowest ground, it wants to be a nonentity. It does not want to declare itself unique, exceptional, extraordinary. It has no ego idea.
Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 14

Commentary:
The figure in this card is completely relaxed and at ease in the water, letting it take him where it will. He has mastered the art of being passive and receptive without being dull or sleepy. He is just available to the currents of life, with never a thought of saying "I don't like that," or "I prefer to go the other way." Every moment in life we have a choice whether to enter life's waters and float, or to try to swim upstream. When this card appears in a reading it is an indication that you are able to float now, trusting that life will support you in your relaxation and take you exactly where it wants you to go. Allow this feeling of trust and relaxation to grow more and more; everything is happening exactly as it should.



this is my card for today

EXPERIENCE


You just look around, look into the eyes of a child, or into the eyes of your beloved, your mother, your friend - or just feel a tree. Have you ever hugged a tree? Hug a tree, and one day you will come to know that it is not only that you have hugged the tree but that the tree also responds, the tree also hugs you. Then for the first time you will be able to know that the tree is not just the form, it is not just a certain species the botanists talk about, it is an unknown God - so green in your courtyard, so full of flowers in your courtyard, so close to you, beckoning you, calling you again and again.Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 2 Commentary:An "experience" is something that can be filed away in a notebook, or captured on film and pasted into an album. 'Experiencing' is the feeling of wonder itself, the thrill of communion, the gentle touch of our connectedness with all that surrounds us. The woman in this card is not just touching this tree, she is in communion with it, she has almost become one with it. It is an old tree, and has seen many hard times. Her touch is gentle, reverent, and the white on the inside of her cape reflects the purity of her heart. She is humble, simple - and that is the right way to approach nature. Nature doesn't bang any drums when it bursts forth into flower, nor play any dirges when the trees let go of their leaves in the fall. But when we approach her in the right spirit, she has many secrets to share. If you haven't heard nature whispering to you lately, now is a good time to give her the opportunity.


This was my random TAO quote for yesterday

Living plants are flexible,
In death, they become dry and brittle.

Therefore, stubborn people are disciples of death, but
Flexible people are disciples of life.


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I think it is a healthy thing for friends to disagree sometimes. It helps us grow.

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I want a new deck. Something is wrong with this one. Control? Control, I only wish I was controlled. I got to be the most out of control person here. Hester you almost had me believing in this stuf.



Osho Zen Tarot31. Control
Try Again

Control

Controlled persons are always nervous because deep down turmoil is still hidden. If you are uncontrolled, flowing, alive, then you are not nervous. There is no question of being nervous - whatsoever happens, happens. You have no expectations for the future, you are not performing. Then why should you be nervous? To control that mind, one has to remain so cold and frozen that no life energy is allowed to move into your limbs, into your body. If energy is allowed to move, those repressions will surface. That's why people have learned how to be cold, how to touch others and yet not touch them, how to see people and yet not see them. People live with clichés - "Hallo. How are you?" Nobody means anything. These are just to avoid the real encounter of two persons. People don't look into each other's eyes, they don't hold hands, they don't try to feel each other's energy, they don't allow each other to pour - very afraid, somehow just managing, cold and dead, in a straitjacket.Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 5 Commentary:There is a time and a place for control, but if we put it in charge of our lives we end up totally rigid. The figure is encased in the angles of pyramid shapes that surround him. Light glitters and glints off his shiny surfaces, but does not penetrate. It's as if he is almost mummified inside this structure he's built up around himself. His fists are clenched and his stare is blank, almost blind. The lower part of his body beneath the table is a knife point, a cutting edge that divides and separates. His world is ordered and perfect, but it is not alive - he cannot allow any spontaneity or vulnerability to enter it. The image of the King of Clouds reminds us to take a deep breath, loosen our neckties and take it easy. If mistakes happen, it's okay. If things get a little out of hand, it's probably just what the doctor ordered. There is much, much more to life than being "on top of things."

Copyright © 2006 Osho International Foundation

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Now this is more like it. He has redeemed himself today. This is dead right.



Osho Zen Tarot
19. Innocence




Innocence

Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 7 Commentary:The old man in this card radiates a childlike delight in the world. There is a sense of grace surrounding him, as if he is at home with himself and with what life has brought. He seems to be having a playful communication with the praying mantis on his finger, as if the two of them are the greatest friends. The pink flowers cascading around him represent a time of letting go, relaxation and sweetness. They are a response to his presence, a reflection of his own qualities. The innocence that comes from a deep experience of life is childlike, but not childish. The innocence of children is beautiful, but ignorant. It will be replaced by mistrust and doubt as the child grows and learns that the world can be a dangerous and threatening place. But the innocence of a life lived fully has a quality of wisdom and acceptance of the ever-changing wonder of life.

Copyright © 2006 Osho International Foundation

[jimboloco]

I thought that was Rajneesh who had a commune in Oregon for the Orange People.

He got sent packing back to Poona I thought to avoid some irregularities coming to fruition.

Guess they are the same person?

Osho was detained and allegedly poisoned by the CIA after being duped by his followers in Oregon. He later died from some type of strange disease. Can an enlightened man be duped? Of course!

Commentary:
The symbol in this card is an enormous wheel representing time, fate, karma. Galaxies spin around this constantly moving circle, and the twelve signs of the zodiac appear on its circumference. Just inside the circumference are the eight trigrams of the I Ching, and even closer to the center are the four directions, each illuminated by the energy of lightning. The spinning triangle is at this moment pointed upward, toward the divine, and the Chinese symbol of yin and yang, male and female, creative and receptive, lies at the center.

It has often been said that the only unchanging thing in the world is change itself. Life is continuously changing, evolving, dying and being reborn. All opposites play a part in this vast circular pattern. If you cling to the edge of the wheel you can get dizzy! Move toward the center of the cyclone and relax, knowing that this too will pass.

turn to face the strange
it'l make you a better man
time may change me
but i cant trace time,,,,,,

I guess the FBI had enough of the countercultural revolution
and Osho Rajneesh was on their list? Quien sabe. But I agree with the power trippers who got into the whole regime of Rajneesh, that is I dont agree with them, I agree that they probably all went directly into Scientology right after that and are now taking vacations to his enduring resort for upscale meditaters in Poona. I am sure.

Another crazy mystic wasTrungpa. Holy samadhi.
Skipped taking my "BUSHWHACKED" sign down to the congressmanz St Pete office this afternoon to stand there in absurdum. it wasnn't in the cards.
Tomorrow the zen retreat day. Bows.

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I remember watching a bit on the eye witness blues news show about his deportation, He was at a airport going to board a private jet. He had a purple thick wool cap on, there were many diamonds embedded in it. You could only see them sparkling, not the diamonds themselves. No idea about where SooZen got the story about poisoned by the CIA. He looked happy and healthy to me. I hope he took the loot back to India and did good with it. I hear he ran a lot of charities in the old country.
Anyway as SooZe said that is water under the bridge and no sense throwing the baby off of it. I like the stuff they are doing some good words and good art.



I been thinking about getting a Ouija board. Tarot cards as can only take you so far. The other day it told me I am a control freak. I think that might not be true. Anyway I like the pictures and I am sure that the Tarot cards in the hands of the right person can be useful. Rorschach inkblots or something.

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon : A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to Ameri ca (Paperback)


Around the turn of the century, renegade Russian aristocrat Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky declared herself the chosen vessel of the wisdom of the East through her reputed contact with a dematerializing Tibetan master, who unveiled a Hidden Brotherhood located in the Himalayas and Egypt. The Theosophical Society, which she cofounded in 1875 in New York City with Civil War veteran Col. Henry Olcott, attracted a wide following with its amalgam of Hinduism, Buddhism and occultism. In this enormously entertaining, witheringly skeptical, highly colorful chronicle, British journalist Washington deflates the self-mythologizing and woolly philosophizing of theosophists and rival schools and gurus, including flamboyant Armenian-Greek mystic George Gurdjieff, Austrian philosopher/holistic healer Rudolf Steiner and Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian ex-theosophist turned California sage. Those who came under their influence include Aldous Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Isherwood, W.B. Yeats and Frank Lloyd Wright, making this a heady intellectual adventure as well as a clear-sighted saga of human foibles, charlatanry, bizarre antics and genuine spiritual hunger extending to New Age cults from the 1950s to the present. Photos.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080521 ... e&n=283155

change is the only constant yep
not every body wants to change
they want to be like jesus christ
the same yesterday today and tomorrow

“Jesus the same, yesterday, today and forever.” Yes, the same riddle the same enigma, the same unsettling power and presence

http://www.godweb.org/jesusthesame.htm

When asked during his campaign which philosopher or great thinker has most influenced him, George W. answered, "Jesus Christ." And added something about how when Jesus "enters your heart, your life is totally changed."

Between faith and a hard place there, Makes we wonder if Christ has changed. Or is Bush lying through his ass and he don't know Christ at all? Hard to imagine a christian lying like that.

[jimboloco]

Wow you remember that.
Yeah and a lot of Mericanz believe him. I work with this one sewwt lady I swear she is a conservative Christian. I told her, Bush is not a conservative. She looks absolutely wounded when somebody slamz the prez. Her bro is an EWO electronics warfare officer.
Is there a disconnect there? Jesus Christ!
I don't think Dubya will have any epiphanies too soon, but I do know some groovy folks dug Rajneesh. I tripped into his local ashram in Santa Cruz, just couldn't dig the orange dress, but hey, some of the Tibetans do it, so it is an ego thing I guess.

I will be robed in black at the zendo tomorrow.
Glad Osho made it back to Poona, his ashram lives on.

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They still be carrying on his work.
The Mystic Rose.

1. 10. GO TO AN INDIAN SPIRITUAL RETREAT TO HAVE SEX ALL THE TIME
Most such places are austere affairs with buckets for showers, but the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India, has a pool, tennis lessons, a nightclub, a sauna, a cybercafé, discos, and, during high season, 3,000 to 5,000 horny Westerners trying to sleep their way to enlightenment. “It’s like Sex and the City, but barefoot,” explains Zeynep Askoy, a former Manhattan ad exec who enjoyed a brief stay there. The man behind Osho is the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the famed “sex guru” who founded a 65,000-acre free-love commune in Antelope, Oregon, in 1981. The Bhagwan, who changed his name to Osho, was deported for violating immigration laws in 1987 and died in 1990, but his libido lives on at this wanton hideaway, which requires visitors to have an HIV test upon entry. “Osho’s overall concept is Zorba the Buddha, which combines Zorba the Greek, that guy who loves alcohol, dens, and women, with the silence and meditativeness of Buddha,” explains president Klaus Steeg. Every guest wears a maroon robe in public areas (acquire one at Osho, or buy your own and have it tailored). “Everyone happens to look gorgeous in them,” says Askoy, “especially men. Men look gorgeous wearing a dress.”

http://newyorkmetro.com/guides/changeyo ... ndex2.html

[sooZen]

mtmynd could tell you more about Osho's story. He was detained before being deported and poisoned evidently, for he never recovered his health after the FBI got finished with him.

Osho is a Zen mystic, a zorba the buddha
enjoy all that life has to offer...without guilt
so what if he sparkled? I like sparkly and a
smart dressed man...you don't have to be
a beggar or live a beggar's life to be enlightened.
Live life to the fullest...he did.

One important thing that Osho (he changed his name after the Or-e-gone incident) repeats over and over again:
"Master Yourself!" Don't be blind, watch your step,
make your own path. If you follow in a guru's path...
you are going the wrong way.

The Monty Python movie, "Life of Brian" comes to mind. Don't take off your shoe if you want to be 'saved'.

the Tao, the cards, or any form of divination are just vehicles. If you don't believe they work, that is fine and dandy and more power to you. It is an individual choice and I am not gonna try and convience anyone that doesn't 'believe' in them or wants to argue their efficacy.

Just look at the cards as fun. I think one should quit looking for answers to all mysteries in life and just enjoy that there are some left in this cynical world...

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I was just editing the my post above

SooZen I trust you a lot. I mean I trust your discernment. I found the bit about the thalium poisoning. I read your post above and I see now that you did not say he was poisoned. You said allegedly poisoned . I trust Cecil a lot. Jimbo and Cecil are teachers to me. THat don't mean I idolize them. Just that I respect them.

I met Ram Dass walking down the street in Washington DC, we spoke no words.

Ram Dass was very important to my spider lover. She felt his guru was hers. We did a lot of reading of Be Here Now.

continued in nest test box. I got to gather some notes

[sooZen]

Zen Tarot Card
Guilt

This moment!...this herenow...is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in. This is one of the most liberating approaches: it liberates you right now! Forget all about sin and forget all about saintliness; both are stupid. Both together have destroyed all the joys of humanity. The sinner is feeling guilty, hence his joy is lost. How can you enjoy life if you are continuously feeling guilty? if you are continuously going to the church to confess that you have done this wrong and that wrong? And wrong and wrong and wrong...your whole life seems to be made of sins. How can you live joyously? It becomes impossible to delight in life. You become heavy, loaded. Guilt sits on your chest like a rock, it crushes you; it does not allow you to dance. How can you dance? How can guilt dance? How can guilt sing? How can guilt love? How can guilt live? So the one who thinks he is doing something wrong is guilty, burdened, dead before death, has already entered into the grave.

Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 3
Commentary:

Guilt is one of the most destructive emotions in which we can get caught. If we have wronged another, or gone against our own truth, then of course we will feel bad. But to let ourselves be overwhelmed with guilt is to invite a migraine. We end up surrounded by nagging clouds of self-doubt and feelings of worthlessness to the point where we cannot see any of the beauty and joy that life is trying to offer us. We all long to be better people--more loving, more aware, more true to ourselves. But when we punish ourselves for our failures by feeling guilty, we can get locked into a cycle of despair and hopelessness that robs us of all clarity about ourselves and the situations we encounter. You are absolutely okay as you are, and it is absolutely natural to go astray from time to time. Just learn from it, move on, and use the lesson not to make the same mistake again.

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My card for today was:

Number 77 . We Are The World

We are Buddha we are Christ

I had forsaken the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those esteemed the most experienced people, for I saw that there was none among them all that could speak to my condition. When all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do; then, O! then I heard a voice which said, “there is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition”; and when I heard it, my heart did leap for joy. Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give him all the glory.

http://www.bartleby.com/218/0403.html



I pretty much hated Ram Dass for a while. He talked about sexual continence. Spiderwoman took that to mean celibacy. If ever a man was pussy whipped it was me.

A couple years later he wrote an article called Egg On My Beard

http://www.kashiashram.com/egg/egg.htm

Spiderwoman thought it was pretty funny.

Ram Dass seems to have a mission for those in pain. Mourning and Melancholia. He has taken the best from east and west and has been a healer.

[sooZen]

this is not a Full Moon Osho Card but it is my card for today, Sunday, February 26...



"Zen Tarot Card
Playfulness

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky.

Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

Osho Nansen: The Point of Departure Chapter 8
Commentary:

Life is rarely as serious as we believe it to be, and when we recognize this fact, it responds by giving us more and more opportunities to play.

The woman in this card is celebrating the joy of being alive, like a butterfly that has emerged from its chrysalis into the promise of the light. She reminds us of the time when we were children, discovering seashells on the beach or building castles in the sand without any concern that the waves might come and wash them away in the next moment. She knows that life is a game, and she's playing the part of a clown right now with no sense of embarrassment or pretense.

When the Page of Fire enters your life, it is a sign that you are ready for the fresh and the new. Something wonderful is just on the horizon, and you have just the right quality of playful innocence and clarity to welcome it with open arms."


AhhhhHah Yes!!!

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Osho Zen Tarot
15. Conditioning



Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. Personality is social convenience. Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the quality of the lion; the lion moves alone. The sheep are always in the crowd, hoping that being in the crowd will feel cozy. Being in the crowd one feels more protected, secure. If somebody attacks, there is every possibility in a crowd to save yourself. But alone? - only the lions move alone.

And every one of you is born a lion, but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep. It gives you a personality, a cozy personality, nice, very convenient, very obedient. Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want obedience.Osho One Seed Makes the Whole Earth Green Chapter

4 Commentary:This card recalls an old Zen story, about a lion who was brought up by sheep and who thought he was a sheep until an old lion captured him and took him to a pond, where he showed him his own reflection. Many of us are like this lion - the image we have of ourselves comes not from our own direct experience but from the opinions of others. A "personality" imposed from the outside replaces the individuality that could have grown from within. We become just another sheep in the herd, unable to move freely and unconscious of our own true identity.

It's time to take a look at your own reflection in the pond, and make a move to break out of whatever you have been conditioned by others to believe about yourself. Dance, run, jog, do gibberish - whatever is needed to wake up the sleeping lion within.

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In the early seventies I was living around the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore. Both my room mates were practicing Buddhists, (not Zen) I forget what flavor it was. They did a lot of chanting it sounded like “nam a o ring a o” We had conversations about death and reincarnation. I asked them if I re incarnated would I come back as me. Would I remember me. They said no. I was very disappointed. I did not wish to die. And if I did die and was reborn I wanted to keep my same social security number.
On an unrelated note, I was thinking about knip and his son. I was thinking maybe I could pick a card for him and get some insight into what is going on..

'The heart has reasons which Reason does not know.'