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

[jimboloco]

Osho Zen Tarot : Major Arcana
19. 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.

Another way of looking at it is to not compartmentalize, ie, to on the one hand have compassion for the mountain lions who roam the Big Bend Area in west Texas between Alpine and Monterrey, Mexico, and on the other, want to limit the wetbacks who wade in the water of the rio Grande, goin on faith.


Innocence is not naivitay!

Anyone who is truly innocent would not support a repressive immigration policy, nor would one support a bombing campaign on Iran, precicely because one who is innocent will be immune to the propagandizing bullcrap the zealots are bombing one with.


The emporer has no clothes!
May we radiate light in our darkness!

[Axanderdeath]

thinking about noit thinking--consintrateing on one word or notes--I have never been able to meditate--things eat me--things have eaten my legs and now I can't walk. Some wise shit there I am glad I read it--just not sure--easier said then done...

[Traveller13]

It's strange how things eat you alive
eating you eating them
a strange-looking cat tore out my tongue a couple of years back

[stilltrucking]

I must be sicker than I thought

It looks like a mouse to me

[Traveller13]

Actually, it's really a bear................

k let's try one



Here's the commentary for anyone who's interested.



One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 13



Commentary:

The figure in this card is completely covered in armor. Only his glare of rage is visible, and the whites of the knuckles on his clenched fists. If you look closely at the armor, you can see it's covered with buttons, ready to detonate if anybody so much as brushes up against them. In the background we see the shadowy movie that plays in this man's mind - two figures fighting for a castle.

An explosive temper or a smoldering rage often masks a deep feeling of pain. We think that if we frighten people away, we can avoid being hurt even more. In fact, just the opposite is the case. By covering our wounds with armor we are preventing them from being healed. By lashing out at others we keep ourselves from getting the love and nourishment we need.

If this description seems to fit you, it's time to stop fighting. There is so much love available to you if you just let it in. Start by forgiving yourself: you're worth it.



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thing is I don't have time for spirituality now, I'm far too busy
lol just kidding
not about not being busy I mean. Julie knows nooothing. I was trying to get a non-linear vision of time and now I'm faced with preparing 3 periods of time at once - finals, summer job and finding a place to study. But in a way I'm glad it happened, because it made me realise that I'd only grasped the superficial part of it, mistaling the superficial of the full. Now that I know what the full is (or, at least have a better picture) I can work on that instead.

[stilltrucking]

I have done the white nuckle bit. After a blow out on the steer axle threw me into the ditch. For years after I drove with a death grip on the wheel. Waiting for the next blow out.

Osho Zen Tarot
42. Totality

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Totality


Every moment there is a possibility to be total. Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming. And the taste of totality will make you more and more capable of being total. And try to see when you are not total. Those are the moments which have to be dropped slowly, slowly. When you are not total, whenever you are in the head--thinking, brooding, calculating, cunning, clever--you are not total. Slowly, slowly slip out of those moments. It is just an old habit. Habits die hard. But they die certainly--if one persists, they die.

Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 12



Commentary:

These three women are high in the air, playful and free, yet alert and interdependent. In a trapeze act, nobody can afford to be a little bit "absent" even for a split second. And it is this quality of total attentiveness to the moment at hand that is represented here.

We may feel there are too many things to do at once, but get bogged down in trying to do a bit here, a bit there, instead of taking one task at a time and getting on with it. Or perhaps we think our task is "boring" because we've forgotten that it's not what you do but how you do it that matters.

Developing the knack of being total in responding to whatever comes, as it comes, is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. Taking one step through life at a time, giving each step your complete attention and energy, can bring a wondrous new vitality and creativity to all that you do.

[abstroint]

Osho Zen Tarot
69. Moment To Moment
Try Again

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Moment To Moment


The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don't exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now. That's the only right direction. Only such a man can enter into the golden gate. The present is the golden gate. Here-now is the golden gate. ...And you can be in the present only if you are not ambitious--no accomplishment, no desire to achieve power, money, prestige, even enlightenment, because all ambition leads you into the future. Only a non-ambitious man can remain in the present. A man who wants to be in the present has not to think, has just to see and enter the gate. Experience will come, but experience has not to be premeditated.

Osho The Great Zen Master Ta Hui Chapter 37



Commentary:

As this figure moves across the stones, he steps lightly and non-seriously, and at the same time absolutely balanced and alert. Behind the swirling, ever-changing waters we can see the shapes of buildings; there appears to be a city in the background. The man is in the marketplace but at the same time outside of it, maintaining his balance and able to watch it from above. This card challenges us to move away from our preoccupations with other spaces and other times, and stay alert to what is happening in the here and now. Life is a great ocean in which you can play if you drop all your judgments, your preferences and the attachment to the details of your long-term plans. Be available to what comes your way, as it comes. And don't worry if you stumble or fall; just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, have a good laugh, and carry on.




Copyright © 2006 Osho International Foundation

[abstroint]

Osho Zen Tarot
23. The Creator
Try Again

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The Creator


There are two types of creators in the world. One type of creator works with objects - a poet, a painter, they work with objects, they create things. The other type of creator, the mystic, creates himself. He doesn't work with objects, he works with the subject; he works on himself, his own being. And he is the real creator, the real poet, because he makes himself into a masterpiece.

You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed. Everyone is a masterpiece, because God never gives birth to anything less than that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, no knowing who they are and just trying on the surface to become someone.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God himself has created you; you cannot be improved.

Osho Ah, This! Chapter 1



Commentary:

The Zen master in this card has harnessed the energy of fire and is able to use it for creation rather than destruction. He invites us to recognize and participate with him in the understanding that belongs to those who have mastered the fires of passion, without repressing them or allowing them to get destructive and out of balance. He is so integrated that there is no longer any difference between who he is inside and who he is in the world outside. He offers this gift of understanding and integration to all those who come to him, the gift of creative light that comes from the center of his being.

The King of Fire tells us that anything that we undertake now, with the understanding that comes from maturity, will bring enrichment to our own lives and to the lives of others. Using whatever skills you have, whatever you have learned from your own life experience, it is time to express yourself.




Copyright © 2006 Osho International Foundation

[mtmynd]

One of my favorite feel-good cards.

[stilltrucking]

Bodhidharma ... far transcends moralists, puritans, so-called good people, do-gooders. He has touched the very rock bottom of the problem. Unless awareness arises in you, all your morality is bogus, all your culture is simply a thin layer which can be destroyed by anybody. But once your morality has come out of your awareness, not out of a certain discipline, then it is a totally different matter. Then you will respond in every situation out of your awareness. And whatever you do will be good.

Awareness cannot do anything that is bad. That is the ultimate beauty of awareness, that anything that comes out of it is simply beautiful, is simply right, and without any effort and without any practice. So rather than cutting the leaves and the branches, cut the root. And to cut the root there is no other method than a single method: the method of being alert, of being aware, of being conscious.

Osho Bodhidharma, The Greatest Zen Master Chapter 15



Commentary:

Morality has restricted all the juice and energy of life to the narrow confines of this woman's mind. It can't flow there, so she really has become 'a dried up old prune.' Her whole manner is very proper and stiff and severe, and she is always ready to see every situation as black and white, like the jewel she wears around her neck.

The Queen of Clouds lurks in the minds of all of us who have been brought up with rigid ideas of good and bad, sinful and virtuous, acceptable and unacceptable, moral and immoral. It's important to remember that all these judgments of the mind are just products of our conditioning. And whether our judgments are applied to ourselves or to others, they keep us from experiencing the beauty and godliness that lies within. Only when we break through the cage of our conditioning and reach the truth of our own hearts can we begin to see life as it really is.



The Queen of Clouds

[mtmynd]

Damn that Osho!

He's been my guru for many a moon (even though he has passed).

Have you taken the time to explore the website?

[stilltrucking]

SooZen and I went round and round
she said I throw the baby out with the bath water because of what happened in Antelope Oregon. Osho was long gone when that happened. It was a jewish lady from the USA that was behind the murderous plot.

Yeah it is helpful for me, I used to pick one almost everyday when SooZen was posting here.

I freaked one day, I mustt have clicked on something on the Osho website that started to install something on my computer. Myabe it was a link to a advertisement I don't remember anymore.
paranoia are me.

I been leaning more towards alchemy and mysticism these days. Maybe the truest science of all.

[mtmynd]

Jack: "I been leaning more towards alchemy and mysticism these days. Maybe the truest science of all."

A lot of Truth in that, especially if you view alchemy more as an inner change (the lead of mind into the gold of awareness)

As far as I know Osho only wrote one book, Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic, in which he wrote at the end, his poisoning by those that sent him out of the U.S. after the Oregon Incident. The poisoning was diagnosed by several doctors and reduced his health until he passed. His passing was known by him and he readied his ending up thru the day of his death. Strange story.

All his other hundreds of books were from his talks which were recorded, and sometimes video taped, (some on the website), by his followers. I had read that Osho has more published books than any other person period. I'm assuming that would include foreign (non-English) books in the list. A facinating individual who was, without doubt, extraordinarily aware... an enlightened Master of our current times.

BTW: The Tarot cards (and Transcendental cards) were not written by Osho, but the 'pre-commentary words' were his and taken from various talks he gave. The commentary is by his adherents.

[stilltrucking]

A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it....Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 13 Commentary:This is the portrait of one whose whole life energy has been depleted in his efforts to keep fueling the enormous and ridiculous machine of self-importance and productivity. He has been so busy "keeping it all together" and "making sure everything runs smoothly", that he has forgotten to really rest. No doubt he can't allow himself to be playful. To abandon his duty for a trip to the beach could mean the whole structure might come tumbling down. The message of this card is not just about being a workaholic, though. It is about all the ways in which we set up safe but unnatural routines for ourselves and, by doing so, keep the chaotic and spontaneous away from our doors. Life isn't a business to be managed, it's a mystery to be lived. It's time to tear up the time-card, break out of the factory, and take a little trip into the uncharted. Your work can flow more smoothly from a relaxed state of mind.
http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magaz ... ge=English

I hoping and a praying I would not get a 9, but I knew I would. Exhaustion r me. Cause of the 9 Hester drew, it was called sorrow.

what did they do change the deck Hester started this string about four pages ago with a nine but it looked different, and had a different name.

Hesters was Called Sorrow



http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtop ... 01&start=0


Mine was called exhaustion.



They got (the adherents) got the exhaustion part right. It is kind of close to where I am at but the card has my motivation wrong. Nuttin to do with bidness.
For me and my sister it may be more of a hejira: a flight to safety not a trip to the beach but that sounds good too. I am hoping Homeboy and Diamond Lil come through for her.

Who am I talking to Cecil, you or SooZen

if 6 was 9
I don't care
if all the hippies
cut off all their hair

[Artguy]

So how does one make a full house...?