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Osho Zen Tarot
Major Arcana

0: The Fool 8: Courage 16: Thunderbolt

1: Existence 9: Aloneness 17: Silence
2: Inner Voice 10: Change
18: Past Lives
3: Creativity
11: Breakthrough 19: Innocence
4: The Rebel 12: New Vision
20: Beyond Illusion
5: NoThingness 13: Transformation 21: Completion
6: The Lovers 14: Integration The Master
7: Awareness 15: Conditioning

The Card Osho's Teachings

0 The Fool A fool is one who goes on
trusting; a fool is one who
Moment to moment, and with goes on trusting against all his
every step, the Fool leaves the experience. You deceive him,
past behind. He carries nothing and he trusts you; and you
more than his purity, innocence deceive him again, and he
and trust, symbolized by the trusts you; and you deceive
white rose in his hand. The him again, and he trusts you.
pattern on his waistcoat contains Then you will say that he is a
the colors of all four elements of fool, he does not learn. His
the tarot, indicating that he is in trust is tremendous; his trust
harmony with all that surrounds is so pure that nobody can
him. His intuition is functioning at corrupt it.
its peak. At this moment the Fool
Be a fool in the Taoist sense,
has the support of the universe to in the Zen sense. Don't try to
make this jump into the unknown. create a wall of knowledge
Adventures await him in the river around you. Whatsoever
of life. experience comes to you, let
it happen, and then go on
The card indicates that if you dropping it. Go on cleaning
trust your intuition right now, your mind continuously; go on
your feeling of the 'rightness' of dying to the past so you
things, you cannot go wrong. remain in the present, here
Your actions may appear 'foolish' now, as if just born, just a
to others, or even to yourself, if babe.
you try to analyze them with the
In the beginning it is going to
rational mind. But the 'zero' place be very difficult. The world will
occupied by the Fool is the start taking advantage of
numberless number where trust you...let them. They are poor
and innocence are the guides, not fellows. Even if you are
skepticism and past experience. cheated and deceived and
robbed, let it happen, because
that which is really yours
cannot be robbed from you,
that which is really yours
nobody can steal from you.
And each time you don't allow
situations to corrupt you, that
opportunity will become an
integration inside. Your soul
will become more crystallized.

Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang
Chapter2

1 Existence
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You are not accidental.
Existence needs you. Without
This naked figure sits on the lotus you something will be missing
leaf of perfection, gazing at the in existence and nobody can
beauty of the night sky. She replace it. That's what gives
knows that "home" is not a you dignity, that the whole
physical place in the outside existence will miss you. The
world, but an inner quality of stars and sun and moon, the
relaxation and acceptance. The trees and birds and earth
stars, the rocks, the trees, the everything in the universe will
flowers, fish and birdsall are our feel a small place is vacant
brothers and sisters in this dance which cannot be filled by
of life. We human beings tend to anybody except you.
forget this, as we pursue our own
This gives you a tremendous
private agendas and believe we joy, a fulfillment that you are
must fight to get what we need. related to existence, and
But ultimately, our sense of existence cares for you. Once
separateness is just an illusion, you are clean and clear, you
manufactured by the narrow can see tremendous love
preoccupations of the mind. falling on you from all

dimensions.
Now is the time to look at
whether you are allowing yourself Osho God is Dead: Now Zen is
to receive the extraordinary gift of the Only Living Truth Chapter
feeling "at "home" wherever you 1
are. If you are, be sure to take
time to savor it so it can deepen
and remain with you. If on the
other hand you've been feeling
like the world is out to get you,
it's time to take a break. Go
outside tonight and look at the
stars.

2 Inner Voice
If you have found your truth
within yourself there is
The Inner Voice speaks not in nothing more in this whole
words but in the wordless existence to find. Truth is
language of the heart. It is like an functioning through you.
oracle who only speaks the truth. When you open your eyes, it
If it had a face, it would be like is truth opening his eyes.
the face at the center of this card When you close your eyes, it
alert, watchful, and able to is truth who is closing its
accept both the dark and the eyes.
light, symbolized by the two
This is a tremendous
hands holding the crystal. The meditation. If you can simply
crystal itself represents the clarity understand the device, you
that comes from transcending all don't have to do anything;
dualities. whatever you are doing is

The Inner Voice can also be being done by truth. You are
playful, as it dives deep into the walking, it is truth; you are
emotions and emerges again to sleeping, it is truth resting;
soar towards the sky, like two you are speaking, it is truth
dolphins dancing in the waters of speaking; you are silent, it is
life. It is connected with the truth that is silent.
cosmos, through the crescent
This is one of the most simple
moon crown, and the earth, as meditation techniques. Slowly,
represented by the green leaves slowly everything settles by
on the figure's kimono. this simple formula, and then

there is no need for the
There are times in our lives when technique.
too many voices seem to be
When you are cured, you
pulling us this way and that. Our throw away the meditation,
very confusion in such situations you throw away the medicine.
is a reminder to seek silence and Then you live as truthalive,
centering within. Only then are radiant, contented, blissful, a
we able to hear our truth. song unto yourself. Your
whole life becomes a prayer
without any words, or better
to say a prayerfulness, a
grace, a beauty which does
not belong to our mundane
world, a ray of light coming
from the beyond into the
darkness of our world.

Osho The Great Zen Master Ta
Hui, Chapter 23

3 Creativity
Creativity is the quality that
you bring to the activity that
From the alchemy of fire and you are doing. It is an
water below to the divine light attitude, an inner approach
entering from above, the figure in how you look at things....
this card is literally 'possessed by' Not everybody can be a
the creative force. Really, the painterand there is no need
experience of creativity is an also. If everybody is a painter
entry into the mysterious. the world will be very ugly; it
Technique, expertise and will be difficult to live. And not
knowledge are just tools; the key everybody can be a dancer,
is to abandon oneself to the and there is no need. But
energy that fuels the birth of all everybody can be creative.
things. Whatsoever you do, if you do

This energy has no form or it joyfully, if you do it lovingly,
structure, yet all the forms and if your act of doing is not
structures come out of it. It purely economical, then it is
makes no difference what creative. If you have
particular form your creativity something growing out of it
takesit can be painting or within you, if it gives you
singing, planting a garden or growth, it is spiritual, it is
making a meal. The important creative, it is divine. You
thing is to be open to what wants become more divine as you
to be expressed through you. become more creative.
Remember that we don't possess
All the religions of the world
our creations; they do not belong have said God is the creator. I
to us. True creativity arises from don't know whether he is the
a union with the divine, with the creator or not, but one thing I
mystical and the unknowable. know: the more creative you
Then it is both a joy for the become, the more godly you
creator and a blessing to others. become.

When your creativity comes to
a climax, when your whole life
becomes creative, you live in
God. So he must be the
creator because people who
have been creative have been
closest to him. Love what you
do. Be meditative while you
are doing itwhatsoever it is!

Osho A Sudden Clash of
Thunder, Chapter 4

4 The Rebel
People are afraid, very much
afraid of those who know
The powerful and authoritative themselves. They have a
figure in this card is clearly the certain power, a certain aura
master of his own destiny. On his and a certain magnetism, a
shoulder is an emblem of the sun, charisma that can take out
and the torch he holds in his right alive, young people from the
hand symbolizes the light of his traditional imprisonment....
own hardwon truth. Whether he The enlightened man cannot
is wealthy or poor, the Rebel is be enslavedthat is the
really an emperor because he has difficultyand he cannot be
broken the chains of society's imprisoned....
repressive conditioning and
Every genius who has known
opinions. He has formed himself something of the inner is
by embracing all the colors of the bound to be a little difficult to
rainbow, emerging from the dark be absorbed; he is going to be
and formless roots of his an upsetting force. The
unconscious past and growing masses don't want to be
wings to fly into the sky. His very disturbed, even though they
way of being is rebelliousnot may be in misery; they are in
because he is fighting against misery, but they are
anybody or anything, but because accustomed to the misery.
he has discovered his own true And anybody who is not
nature and is determined to live miserable looks like a
in accordance with it. The eagle is stranger.
his spirit animal, a messenger
The enlightened man is the
between earth and sky. The Rebel greatest stranger in the world;
challenges us to be courageous he does not seem to belong to
enough to take responsibility for anybody. No organization
who we are and to live our truth. confines him, no community,

no society, no nation.

Osho The Zen Manifesto:
Freedom from Oneself,
Chapter 9

Buddha has chosen one of the
really very potential words
shunyata. The English word,
5 NoThingness the English equivalent,
"nothingness", is not such a
beautiful word. That's why I
Being "in the gap" can be
would like to make it "no
disorienting and even scary.
thingness"because the
Nothing to hold on to, no sense of
nothing is not just nothing, it
direction, not even a hint of what
is all. It is vibrant with all
choices and possibilities might lie
possibilities. It is potential,
ahead. But it was just this state of
absolute potential. It is
pure potential that existed before
unmanifest yet, but it contains
the universe was created. All you
all. In the beginning is nature,
can do now is to relax into this
in the end is nature, so why in
nothingness...fall into this silence
the middle do you make so
between the words...watch this
much fuss? Why, in the
gap between the outgoing and
middle, becoming so worried,
incoming breath. And treasure
so anxious, so ambitiouswhy
each empty moment of the
create such despair?
experience. Something sacred is Nothingness to nothingness is
about to be born. the whole journey.

Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1,
Chapter 5

6 The Lovers
These three things are to be
taken note of: the lowest love
What we call love is really a whole is sexit is physicaland the
spectrum of relating, reaching highest refinement of love is
from the earth to the sky. At the compassion. Sex is below
most earthy level, love is sexual love, compassion is above
attraction. Many of us remain love; love is exactly in the
stuck there, because our middle.
conditioning has burdened our
Very few people know what
sexuality with all kinds of love is. Ninetynine percent of
expectations and repressions. people, unfortunately, think
Actually the biggest "problem" sexuality is loveit is not.
with sexual love is that it never Sexuality is very animal; it
lasts. Only if we accept this fact certainly has the potential of
can we then really celebrate it for growing into love, but it is not
what it iswelcome its actual love, only a potential....
happening, and say goodbye If you become aware and
with gratitude when it's not. alert, meditative, then sex can

Then as we mature, we can begin be transformed into love. And
to experience the love that exists if your meditativeness
beyond sexuality and honors the becomes total, absolute, love
unique individuality of the other. can be transformed into
We begin to understand that our compassion. Sex is the seed,
partner often functions as a love is the flower, compassion
mirror, reflecting unseen aspects is the fragrance.
of our deeper self and supporting Buddha has defined
us to become whole. This love is compassion as 'love plus
based in freedom, not expectation meditation'. When your love is
or need. Its wings take us higher not just a desire for the other,
and higher towards the universal when your love is not only a
love that experiences all as one. need, when your love is a

sharing, when your love is not
that of a beggar but an
emperor, when your love is
not asking for something in
return but is ready only to
giveto give for the sheer joy
of givingthen add meditation
to it and the pure fragrance is
released.

That is compassion;
compassion is the highest
phenomenon.

Osho Zen, Zest, Zip, Zap and
Zing, Chapter 3

7 Awareness
Mind can never be intelligent
only nomind is intelligent.
The veil of illusion, or maya, that Only nomind is original and
has been keeping you from radical. Only nomind is
perceiving reality as it is, is revolutionaryrevolution in
starting to burn away. The fire is action.
not the heated fire of passion, but This mind gives you a sort of
the cool flame of awareness. As it stupor. Burdened by the
burns the veil, the face of a very memories of the past,
delicate and childlike buddha burdened by the projections of
becomes visible. the future, you go on living

The awareness that is growing in at the minimum. You don't
you now is not the result of any live at the maximum. Your
conscious "doing", nor do you flame remains very dim.
need to struggle to make Once you start dropping
something happen. Any sense you thoughts, the dust that you
might have had that you've been have collected in the past, the
groping in the dark is dissolving flame arisesclean, clear,
now, or will be dissolving soon. alive, young. Your whole life
becomes a flame, and a flame
Let yourself settle, and remember without any smoke. That is
that deep inside you are just a what awareness is.
witness, eternally silent, aware
and unchanged. A channel is now Osho A Sudden Clash of
opening from the circumference Thunder, Chapter 1
of activity to that center of
witnessing. It will help you to
become detached, and a new
awareness will lift the veil from
your eyes.

The seed cannot know what is
going to happen, the seed has
8 Courage never known the flower. And
the seed cannot even believe
This card shows a small wildflower that he has the potentiality to
that has met the challenge of the become a beautiful flower.
rocks and stones in its path to Long is the journey, and it is
emerge into the light of day. always safer not to go on that
Surrounded by an aura of bright journey because unknown is
golden light, it exposes the the path, nothing is
majesty of its tiny self. guaranteed.

Nothing can be guaranteed.
Unashamed, it is equal to the
brightest sun. Thousand and one are the
hazards of the journey, many
When we are faced with a very are the pitfallsand the seed
difficult situation we have a is secure, hidden inside a hard
choice: we can either be core. But the seed tries, it
resentful, and try to find makes an effort; it drops the
somebody or something to blame hard shell which is its security,
it starts moving.
for the hardships, or we can face

Immediately the fight starts:
the challenge and grow.

The flower shows us the way, as the struggle with the soil, with
its passion for life leads it out of the stones, with the rocks.
the darkness and into the light. And the seed was very hard
There is no point fighting against and the sprout will be very,
the challenges of life, or trying to very soft and dangers will be
avoid or deny them. They are many. There was no danger
there, and if the seed is to for the seed, the seed could
become the flower we must go have survived for millennia,
through them. Be courageous but for the sprout many are
enough to grow into the flower the dangers. But the sprout
you are meant to be. starts towards the unknown,
towards the sun, towards the
source of light, not knowing
where, not knowing why.
Great is the cross to be
carried, but a dream
possesses the seed and the
seed moves. The same is the
path for man. It is arduous.
Much courage will be needed.

Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang,
Chapter 4

9 Aloneness
When you are alone you are
not alone, you are simply
When there is no "significant lonelyand there is a
other" in our lives we can either tremendous difference
be lonely, or enjoy the freedom between loneliness and
that solitude brings. When we find aloneness. When you are
no support among others for our lonely you are thinking of the
deeply felt truths, we can either other, you are missing the
feel isolated and bitter, or other. Loneliness is a negative
celebrate the fact that our vision state. You are feeling that it
is strong enough even to survive would have been better if the
the powerful human need for the other was thereyour friend,
approval of family, friends or your wife, your mother, your
colleagues. beloved, your husband. It

would have been good if the
If you are facing such a situation other was there, but the other
now, be aware of how you are is not. Loneliness is absence
choosing to view your "aloneness" of the other.
and take responsibility for the
Aloneness is the presence of
choice you have made. oneself. Aloneness is very

The humble figure in this card positive. It is a presence,
glows with a light that emanates overflowing presence. You are
from within. One of Gautam so full of presence that you
Buddha's most significant can fill the whole universe
contributions to the spiritual life with your presence and there
of humankind was to insist to his is no need for anybody.
disciples, "Be a light unto
yourself." Ultimately, each of us Osho The Discipline of
must develop within ourselves the Transcendence Volume 1,
capacity to make our way through Chapter 2
the darkness without any
companions, maps or guide.

10 Change
Life repeats itself mindlessly
unless you become mindful, it
The symbol in this card is an will go on repeating like a
enormous wheel representing wheel. That's why Buddhists
time, fate, karma. Galaxies spin call it the wheel of life and
around this constantly moving deaththe wheel of time. It
circle, and the twelve signs of the moves like a wheel: birth is
zodiac appear on its followed by death, death is
circumference. Just inside the followed by birth; love is
circumference are the eight followed by hate, hate is
trigrams of the I Ching, and even followed by love; success is
closer to the center are the four followed by failure, failure is
directions, each illuminated by the followed by success. Just see!
energy of lightning. The spinning If you can watch just for a few
triangle is at this moment pointed days, you will see a pattern
upward, toward the divine, and emerging, a wheel pattern.
the Chinese symbol of yin and One day, a fine morning, you
yang, male and female, creative are feeling so good and so
and receptive, lies at the center. happy, and another day you
It has often been said that the are so dull, so dead that you
only unchanging thing in the start thinking of committing
world is change itself. Life is suicide. And just the other day
continuously changing, evolving, you were so full of life, so
dying and being reborn. All blissful that you were feeling
opposites play a part in this vast thankful to God that you were
circular pattern. in a mood of deep
gratefulness, and today there
If you cling to the edge of the is great complaint and you
wheel you can get dizzy! Move don't see the point why one
toward the center of the cyclone should go on living....
and relax, knowing that this too
And it goes on and on, but
will pass. you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you
can get out of it.

Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1,
Chapter 7

11 Breakthrough
To transform breakdowns into
breakthroughs is the whole
The predominance of red in this function of a master. The
card indicates at a glance that its psychotherapist simply
subject is energy, power and patches you up. That is his
strength. The brilliant glow function. He is not there to
emanates from the solar plexus, transform you. You need a
or center of power on the figure, metapsychology, the
and the posture is one of psychology of the buddhas.
exuberance and determination. All
It is the greatest adventure in
of us occasionally reach a point life to go through a
when "enough is enough." breakdown consciously. It is

At such times it seems we must the greatest risk because
do something, anything, even if it there is no guarantee that the
later turns out to be a mistake, to breakdown will become a
throw off the burdens and breakthrough. It does
restrictions that are limiting us. If become, but these things
we don't, they threaten to cannot be guaranteed. Your
suffocate and cripple our very life chaos is very ancientfor
energy itself. many, many lives you have

been in chaos. It is thick and
If you are now feeling that dense. It is almost a universe
"enough is enough," allow in itself.
yourself to take the risk of
So when you enter into it with
shattering the old patterns and your small capacity, of course
limitations that have kept your there is danger. But without
energy from flowing. In doing so facing this danger nobody has
you will be amazed at the vitality ever become integrated,
and empowerment this nobody has ever become an
Breakthrough can bring to your individual, indivisible.
life.
Zen, or meditation, is the

method which will help you to
go through the chaos, through
the dark night of the soul,
balanced, disciplined, alert.
The dawn is not far away, but
before you can reach the
dawn, the dark night has to
be passed through. And as the
dawn comes closer, the night
will become darker.

Osho Walking in Zen, Sitting
in Zen, Chapter 1

12 New Vision
When you open up to the
ultimate, immediately it pours
The figure on this card is being into you. You are no longer an
born anew, emerging from his ordinary human beingyou
earthbound roots and growing have transcended. Your
wings to fly into the unbounded. insight has become the insight
The geometric shapes around the of the whole existence. Now
body of the figure show the many you are no longer separate
dimensions of life simultaneously you have found your roots.
available to him. The square Otherwise, ordinarily,
represents the physical, the everybody is moving without
manifest, the known. The circle roots, not knowing from
represents the unmanifest, the where their heart goes on
spirit, pure space. And the receiving energy, not knowing
triangle symbolizes the threefold who goes on breathing in
nature of the universe: manifest, them, not knowing the life
unmanifest, and the human being juice that is running inside
who contains both. them. It is not the body, it is

not the mindit is something
Now you are presented with an transcendental to all duality,
opportunity to see life in all its that is called bhagavatthe
dimensions, from the depths to bhagavat in the ten directions
the heights. They exist together, ....
and when we come to know from
Your inner being, when it
experience that the dark and the opens, first experiences two
difficult are needed as much as directions: the height, the
the light and easy, then we begin depth. And then slowly,
to have a very different slowly, as this becomes your
perspective on the world. By established situation, you
allowing all of life's colors to start looking around,
penetrate us, we become more spreading into all other eight
integrated. directions.

And once you have attained to
the point where your height
and your depth meet, then
you can look around to the
very circumference of the
universe. Then your
consciousness starts unfolding
in all ten directions, but the
road has been one.

Osho Zen: The Diamond
Thunderbolt, Chapter 9

13 Transformation
A master in Zen is not simply
a teacher. In all the religions
The central figure in this card sits there are only teachers. They
atop the vast flower of the void, teach you about subjects
and holds the symbols of which you don't know, and
transformationthe sword that they ask you to believe,
cuts through illusion, the snake because there is no way to
that rejuvenates itself by bring those experiences into
shedding its skin, the broken objective reality. Neither has
chain of limitations, and the the teacher known themhe
yin/yang symbol of transcending has believed them; he
duality. One of its hands rests on transfers his belief to
its lap, open and receptive. The somebody else.
other reaches down to touch the
Zen is not a believer's world.
mouth of a sleeping face, It is not for the faithful ones;
symbolizing the silence that it is for those daring souls who
comes when we are at rest. can drop all belief, unbelief,
doubt, reason, mind, and
This is a time for a deep letgo. simply enter into their pure
Allow any pain, sorrow, or existence without boundaries.
difficulty just to be there, But it brings a tremendous
accepting its "facticity". It is very transformation. Hence, let me
much like the experience of say that while others are
Gautam Buddha when, after years involved in philosophies, Zen
of seeking, he finally gave up is involved in metamorphosis,
knowing there was nothing more in a transformation. It is
that he could do. That very night, authentic alchemy: it changes
he became enlightened. you from base metal into gold.
Transformation comes, like death, But its language has to be
in its own time. And, like death, it understood, not with your
takes you from one dimension reasoning and intellectual
into another. mind but with your loving
heart. Or even just listening,
not bothering whether it is
true or not. And a moment
comes suddenly that you see
it, which has been eluding you
your whole life. Suddenly,
what Gautam Buddha called
'eightyfour thousand doors'
open.

Osho Zen: The Solitary Bird,
Cuckoo of the Forest, Chapter
6

14 Integration
The conflict is in man. Unless
it is resolved there, it cannot
The image of integration is the be resolved anywhere else.
union mystica, the fusion of The politics is within you; it is
opposites. This is a time of between the two parts of the
communication between the mind. A very small bridge
previously experienced dualities exists. If that bridge is broken
of life. Rather than night opposing through some accident,
day, dark suppressing light, they through some physiological
work together to create a unified defect or something else, the
whole, turning endlessly one into person becomes split, the
the other, each containing in its person becomes two persons
deepest core the seed of the and the phenomenon of
opposite. schizophrenia or split

The eagle and the swan are both personality happens.
beings of flight and majesty. The
If the bridge is brokenand
eagle is the embodiment of power the bridge is very fragilethen
and aloneness. The swan is the you become two, you behave
embodiment of space and purity, like two persons. In the
gently floating and diving upon morning you are very loving,
and within the element of the very beautiful; in the evening
emotions, entirely content and you are very angry, absolutely
complete within her perfection different. You don't remember
and beauty. We are the union of your morning...how can you
eagle and swan: male and female, remember? Another mind was
fire and water, life and death. functioningand the person
becomes two persons. If this
The card of integration is the bridge is strengthened so
symbol of selfcreation, new life, much that the two minds
and mystical union; otherwise disappear as two and become
known as alchemy. one, then integration, then
crystallization, arises.

What George Gurdjieff used to
call the crystallization of being
is nothing but these two
minds becoming one, the
meeting of the male and the
female within, the meeting of
yin and yang, the meeting of
the left and right, the meeting
of logic and illogic, the
meeting of Plato and Aristotle.

Osho Ancient Music in the
Pines, Chapter 1

15 Conditioning
Unless you drop your
personality you will not be
able to find your individuality.
This card recalls an old Zen story, Individuality is given by
about a lion who was brought up existence; personality is
by sheep and who thought he was imposed by the society.
a sheep until an old lion captured Personality is social
him and took him to a pond, convenience.
where he showed him his own
Society cannot tolerate
reflection. Many of us are like this individuality, because
lionthe image we have of individuality will not follow like
ourselves comes not from our a sheep. Individuality has the
own direct experience but from quality of the lion; the lion
the opinions of others. A moves alone. The sheep are
"personality" imposed from the always in the crowd, hoping
outside replaces the individuality that being in the crowd will
that could have grown from feel cozy. Being in the crowd
within. We become just another one feels more protected,
sheep in the herd, unable to move secure. If somebody attacks,
freely, and unconscious of our there is every possibility in a
own true identity. crowd to save yourself. But

alone?only the lions move
It's time to take a look at your alone.
own reflection in the pond, and
And every one of you is born a
make a move to break out of lion, but the society goes on
whatever you have been conditioning you,
conditioned by others to believe programming your mind as a
about yourself. Dance, run, jog, sheep. It gives you a
do gibberishwhatever is needed personality, a cozy
to wake up the sleeping lion personality, nice, very
within. 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

16 Thunderbolt
What meditation does slowly,
slowly, a good shout of the
The card shows a tower being master, unexpectedly, in the
burned, destroyed, blown apart. A situation where the disciple
man and a woman are leaping was asking some question,
from it not because they want to, and the master jumps and
but because they have no choice. shouts, or hits him, or throws
In the background is a him out of the door, or jumps
transparent, meditating figure over him....
representing the witnessing
These methods were never
consciousness. You might be known. It was purely the very
feeling pretty shaky right now, as creative genius of Ma Tzu, and
if the earth is rocking beneath he made many people
your feet. Your sense of security enlightened. Sometimes it
is being challenged, and the looks so hilarious: he threw a
natural tendency is to try to hold man from the window, from a
on to whatever you can. twostorey house, and the

man had come to ask on what
But this inner earthquake is both to meditate.
necessary and tremendously
And Ma Tzu not only threw
importantif you allow it, you will him, he jumped after him, fell
emerge from the wreckage on him, sat on his chest, and
stronger and more available for he said, "Got it?!" And the
new experiences. After the fire, poor fellow said, "Yes"
the earth is replenished; after the because if you say "No," he
storm the air is clear. Try to may beat you or do something
watch the destruction with else. It is enoughhis body is
detachment, almost as if it were fractured, and Ma Tzu, sitting
happening to somebody else. Say on his chest, says, "Got it?!"
yes to the process by meeting it And in fact he got it, because
halfway. it was so sudden, out of the

bluehe could never have
conceived it.

Osho Isan: No Footprints in
the Blue Sky, Chapter 4

17 Silence
The energy of the whole has
taken possession of you. You
The silent mirrorlike receptiveness are possessed, you are no
of a starfilled night with a full more, the whole is. This
moon is reflected in the misty moment, as the silence
lake below. The face in the sky is penetrates in you, you can
deep in meditation, a goddess of understand the significance of
the night who brings depth, peace it, because it is the same
and understanding. Now is a very silence that Gautam Buddha
precious time. It will be easy for experienced. It is the same
you to rest inside, to plumb the silence that Chuang Tzu or
depths of your own inner silence Bodhidharma or Nansen....
to the point where it meets the The taste of the silence is the
silence of the universe. same.

There's nothing to do, nowhere to
Time changes, the world goes
go, and the quality of your inner on changing, but the
silence permeates everything you experience of silence, the joy
do. It might make some people of it, remains the same. That
uncomfortable, accustomed as is the only thing you can rely
they are to all the noise and upon, the only thing that
activity of the world. Never mind; never dies. It is the only thing
seek out those who can resonate that you can call your very
with your silence, or enjoy your being.
aloneness.
Osho Zen: The Diamond
Now is the time to come home to Thunderbolt, Chapter 1
yourself. The understanding and
insights that come to you in these
moments will be manifested later
on, in a more outgoing phase of
your life.

18 Past Lives
The child can become
conscious only if in his past
The hands of existence form the life he has meditated enough,
shape of the female genitals, the has created enough
opening of the cosmic mother. meditative energy to fight
Revealed within are many images, with the darkness that death
faces from other times. While it brings. One simply is lost in
might be entertaining to fantasize an oblivion and then suddenly
about famous past lives, it is just finds a new womb and forgets
a distraction. The real point is to completely about the old
see and understand the karmic body. There is a discontinuity.
patterns of our lives, and their This darkness, this
roots in an endless repetitive unconsciousness creates the
cycle that traps us in unconscious discontinuity. The East has
behavior. The two rainbow lizards been working hard to
on either side represent knowing penetrate these barriers. And
and notknowing. They are the ten thousand years' work has
guardians of the unconscious, not been in vain.
making sure that we are prepared
Everybody can penetrate to
for a vision that might otherwise the past life or many past
be shattering. lives. But for that you have to

A glimpse into the eternity of our go deeper into your
existence is a gift, and meditation, for two reasons:
understanding the function of unless you go deeper, you
karma in our lives is not cannot find the door to
something that can be grasped at another life; secondly, you
will. have to be deeper in

meditation because, if you
This is a wakeup call; the events find the door of another life, a
in your life are trying to show you flood of events will come into
a pattern as ancient as the the mind. It is hard enough
journey of your own soul. even to carry one life....

Osho Hyakujo: The Everest of
Zen, Chapter 7

19 Innocence
Zen says that if you drop
knowledgeand within
The old man in this card radiates knowledge everything is
a childlike delight in the world. included, your name, your
There is a sense of grace identity, everything, because
surrounding him, as if he is at this has been given to you by
home with himself and with what othersif you drop all that has
life has brought. He seems to be been given by others, you will
having a playful communication have a totally different quality
with the praying mantis on his to your beinginnocence. This
finger, as if the two of them are will be a crucifixion of the
the greatest friends. The pink persona, the personality, and
flowers cascading around him there will be a resurrection of
represent a time of letting go, your innocence; you will
relaxation and sweetness. They become a child again, reborn.
are a response to his presence, a
reflection of his own qualities. Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang,
The innocence that comes from a Chapter 7
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 everchanging
wonder of life.

20 Beyond Illusion
This is the only distinction
between the dream and the
The butterfly in this card real: reality allows you to
represents the outer, that which doubt, and the dream does
is constantly moving and that not allow you to doubt....
which is not real but an illusion. To me, the capacity to doubt
Behind the butterfly is the face of is one of the greatest
consciousness, looking inward to blessings to humanity. The
that which is eternal. The space religions have been enemies
between the two eyes has because they have been
opened, revealing the lotus of cutting the very roots of
spiritual unfoldment and the rising doubt, and there is a reason
sun of awareness. Through the why they have been doing
rising of the inner sun, meditation that: because they want
is born. people to believe in certain

illusions that they have been
The card reminds us not to look preaching....
outside for what is real, but to
Why have the people like
look within. When we focus on Gautam Buddha been so
externals, we too often get caught insistent that the whole
up in judgmentsthis is good, existenceexcept your
this is bad, I want this, I don't witnessing self, except your
want that. These judgments keep awarenessis just ephemeral,
us trapped in our illusions, our made of the same stuff as
sleepiness, our old habits and dreams are made of. They are
patterns. Drop your opinionated not saying that these trees
mind, and move inside. There, are not there. They are not
you can relax into your own saying that these pillars are
deepest truth, where the not there.
difference between dreams and
Don't misunderstand because
reality is already known. of the word "illusion".... It has

been translated as illusion,
but illusion is not the right
word. Illusion does not exist.
Reality exists. Maya is just in
betweenit almost exists.

As far as daytoday activities
are concerned, it can be taken
as reality. Only in the ultimate
sense, from the peak of your
illumination, it becomes
unreal, illusory.

Osho The Great Zen Master Ta
Hui, Chapter 12

21 Completion
This is the way of Zen, not to
say things to their completion.
Here the last piece of a jigsaw This has to be understood; it
puzzle is being put into its place, is a very important
the position of the third eye, the methodology. Not to say
place of inner perception. Even in everything means to give an
the everchanging flow of life opportunity to the listener to
there are moments in which we complete it. All answers are
come to a point of completion. In incomplete. The master has
these moments we are able to only given you a direction...
perceive the whole picture, the By the time you reach the
composite of all the small pieces limit, you will know what is
that have occupied our attention going to remain.
for so long. In the finishing, we
This way, if somebody is
can either be in despair because trying to understand Zen
we don't want the situation to intellectually he will fail. It is
come to an end, or we can be not an answer to the question
grateful and accepting of the fact but something more than the
that life is full of endings and new answer. It is indicating the
beginnings. very reality....

Whatever has been absorbing
The buddha nature is not
your time and energy is now something far awayyour
coming to an end. In completing very consciousness is buddha
it, you will be clearing the space nature. And your
for something new to begin. Use consciousness can witness
this interval to celebrate both these things which constitute
the end of the old and the coming the world. The world will end
of the new. but the mirror will remain,

mirroring nothing.

Osho Joshu: The Lion's Roar,
Chapter 5

The Master
Masters don't teach the truth;
there is no way to teach it. It
The Master in Zen is not a master is a transmission beyond
over others, but a master of scriptures, beyond words. It is
himself. His every gesture and his a transmission. It is energy
every word reflect his enlightened provoking energy in you. It is
state. He has no private goals, no a kind of synchronicity....
desire that anything should be You have to approach the
other than the way it is. His master with great love, with
disciples gather around him not to great trust, with an open
follow him, but to soak up his heart. You are not aware who
presence and be inspired by his you are. He is aware who he
example. In his eyes they find is, he is aware who you are.
their own truth reflected, and in The caterpillar might be said
his silence they fall more easily to be unaware that it may
into the silence of their own become a butterfly. You are
beings. caterpillarsbodhisattvas. All

The master welcomes the caterpillars are bodhisattvas
disciples not because he wants to and all bodhisattvas are
lead them, but because he has so caterpillars. A bodhisattva
much to share. Together, they means one who can become a
create an energy field that butterfly, who can become a
supports each unique individual in buddha, who is a buddha in
finding his or her own light. If you the seed, in essence....
can find such a master you are The master/disciple
blessed. If you cannot, keep on relationship is the relationship
searching. Learn from the between a caterpillar and a
teachers, and the wouldbe butterfly, a friendship between
masters, and move on. a caterpillar and a butterfly.
Charaiveti, charaiveti, said The butterfly cannot prove
Gautam Buddha. Keep on moving. that the caterpillar can
become a butterfly; there is
no logical way. But the
butterfly can provoke a
longing in the caterpillarthat
is possible.

Osho Ah, This!, Chapter 1


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