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2O APRIL WEDNESDAY

But there are always moments of self-soubt.



when your conscience works overtime
and you think you've been too harsh
or insensitive
or unfair
or too pushy
or selfish
or unempathic
or unloving
and you twist yourself into a



human pretzel


all while Venus is transiting
the last degree of Pisces
and Neptune rules.


but before long
you think,
"OH, crap. I can't drive myself crazy trying
to figure out the right thing to do."


Because when Mars takes over again
and you come back to your right mind
or you sober up
you remember
that the right thing to do


IS TO DO SOMETHING


FOR CHRISSAKES.

 


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Osho Zen Tarot



66. Sorrow
Try Again






Zen Tarot Card

Sorrow


This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you more alert--because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you alone--those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.



Osho Take it Easy, Volume 2 Chapter 12




Commentary:


The image is of Ananda, the cousin and disciple of Gautam Buddha. He
was at Buddha's side constantly, attending to his every need for
forty-two years. When Buddha died, the story is told that Ananda was
still at his side, weeping. The other disciples chastised him for his
misunderstanding: Buddha had died absolutely fulfilled; he should be
rejoicing. But Ananda said, "You misunderstand. I'm weeping not for him
but for myself, because for all these years I have been constantly at
his side but I have still not attained." Ananda stayed awake for the
whole night, meditating deeply and feeling his pain and sorrow. By the
morning, it is said, he was enlightened. Times of great sorrow have the
potential to be times of great transformation. But in order for
transformation to happen we must go deep, to the very roots of our
pain, and experience it as it is, without blame or self-pity.




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