Stress? What's that?

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Osho Zen Tarot 44. Stress

Try Again

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Stress

All private goals are neurotic. The essential man comes to know, to
feel, "I am not separate from the whole, and there is no need to seek
and search for any destiny on my own. Things are happening, the world
is moving--call it God...he is doing things. They are happening of
their own accord. There is no need for me to make any struggle, any
effort; there is no need for me to fight for anything. I can relax and
be." The essential man is not a doer. The accidental man is a doer. The
accidental man is, of course, then in anxiety, tension, stress,
anguish, continuously sitting on a volcano. It can erupt any moment,
because he lives in a world of uncertainty and believes as if it is
certain. This creates tension in his be-ing: he knows deep down that
nothing is certain.

Osho A Sudden Clash of Thunder Chapter 3

Commentary:

How many people do you know who, just when they were completely
overloaded, with too many projects, too many "balls in the air", have
suddenly come down with the flu, or taken a fall and ended up on
crutches? That's just the sort of "bad timing" the little monkey with
the pin in his hand is about to impose on the "one-man-band" pictured
here! The quality of stress represented by this card visits all of us
at times, but perfectionists are particularly vulnerable to it. We
create it ourselves, with the idea that without us nothing will
happen--especially in the way we want it to! Well, what makes you think
you're so special? Do you think the sun won't rise in the morning
unless you personally set the alarm? Go for a walk, buy some flowers,
and fix yourself a spaghetti dinner--anything 'unimportant' will do.
Just put yourself out of that monkey's reach!