Sample Readings
Sample Osho Zen Reading
for Danielle
Question: What is going on in my life the next three months?
May 2,1946
Card #1. Past: The origin of the problem or situation that led to the reading.
Nothingness.
Osho Zen says, "Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words - shunyata. The English word, the English equivalent, "nothingness", is not such a beautiful word. That's why I would like to make it "no-thingness" - because the nothing is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all."
In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious - why create such despair? Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey."
Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 5
Commentary:
Danielle, being "in the gap" can be disorienting and even scary. It is that enigmatic place, just between....not in the past, not yet realizing the future as you would like it, just kind of in the "wait". But this is where it all really is beginning, in the nothingness. All you have been able to do is just go with it. Relax and enjoy the silence. Try to treasure each of these moments as something wonderful is about to be born.
The Present: The questioner's current condition .
Queen of Fire
Osho Zen says, "As you move above to the fourth center - that is the heart - your whole life becomes a sharing of love. The third center has created the abundance of love. By reaching to the third center in meditation, you have become so overflowing with love, with compassion, and you want to share. It happens at the fourth center, the heart.
That's why even in the ordinary world people think love comes out of the heart. For them it is just hearsay, they have heard it; they don't know it because they have never reached to their heart. But the meditator finally reaches to the heart. As he has reached to the center of his being - the third center - suddenly an explosion of love and compassion and joy and blissfulness and benediction has arisen in him with such a force that it hits his heart and opens the heart. The heart is just in the middle of all your seven centers - three centers below, three centers above. You have come exactly to the middle."
Osho The Search: Talks on the Ten Bulls of Zen Chapter2\
Commentary:
Danielle, The Queen of Fire is so rich, so much a queen, that she can afford to give. It doesn't even occur to her to take inventories or to put something aside for later. She dispenses her treasures without limits, welcoming all to partake of the abundance and light that surrounds her.
Drawing this card suggests that you too are in a situation where you have an opportunity to share your love, your joy and your laughter. And in sharing, you find that you feel even more full.
Everything around you seems to be "coming together" now. Enjoy it, ground yourself in it, and let the abundance in you and around you overflow.
The Future: The most likely outcome as a natural development of the previous situation.
Yin Yang
Osho Zen says, "The conflict is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere else. The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind. A very small bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some physiological defect or something else, the person becomes split, the person becomes two persons and the phenomenon of schizophrenia or split personality happens.
If the bridge is broken - and the bridge is very fragile - then you become two, you behave like two persons. In the morning you are very loving, very beautiful; in the evening you are very angry, absolutely different. You don't remember your morning...how can you remember? Another mind was functioning - and the person becomes two persons. If this bridge is strengthened so much that the two minds disappear as two and become 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
Commentary:
Danielle, all the preparation from the "nothingness" is moving forward to create a fusion of opposites, a complete balance. No more dark versus light, night versus day, they work together to create a unified whole, turning endlessly one into the other, each containing in its deepest core the seed of the opposite. All brought together through the power of love.
This card shows the eagle and the swan, both beings of flight and majesty. The eagle is the embodiment of power and aloneness. The swan is the embodiment of space and purity, gently floating and diving, entirely content and complete within her perfection and beauty.
You are moving towards the union of the eagle and the swan; male and female, fire and water, life and death. This is a card of integration and is a symbol of self-creation, new life, and a mystical union, the same as what is referred to in alchemy.
Positive: Positive aspects that benefit the questioner in the current situation.
The Tower
Osho Zen says, "What meditation does slowly, slowly, a good shout of the master, unexpectedly, in the situation where the disciple was asking some question, and the master jumps and shouts, or hits him, or throws him out of the door, or jumps over him....
These methods were never known. It was purely the very creative genius of Ma Tzu, and he made many people enlightened. Sometimes it looks so hilarious: he threw a man from the window, from a two-storey house, and the man had come to ask on what to meditate. And Ma Tzu not only threw him, he jumped after him, fell on him, sat on his chest, and he said, "Got it?!"
And the poor fellow said, "Yes" - because if you say "No," he may beat you or do something else! It is enough - his body is fractured, and Ma Tzu, sitting on his chest, says, "Got it?!" And in fact he got it, because it was so sudden, out of the blue - he could never have conceived it."
Osho Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 4
Commentary:
One would not consider The Tower to show up as a positive influence, because usually before the enlightment The Tower brings there is much emotional turmoil and distress. But in this case I am feeling The Tower is representing your apprehension and shakiness of what is to come. Your sense of security might be being challenged and of course, the natural tendency is to hold on to what we have....what we know, rather than the scary unknown. But this inner earthquake is both necessary and tremendously important - if you allow it, you will emerge from all this much stronger and more availableto Spirit for new experiences.
After the fire, the earth is replenished; after the storm the air is clear. Try to watch the destruction of the past with detachment, almost as if it were happening to somebody else. Say yes to the process by meeting it halfway, easing the transition.
Negative: What could prove negative or harmful to the questioner in the current situation.
Turning Inward
Osho Zen says, "Turning inwards is not a turning at all. Going inwards is not a going at all. Turning inwards simply means that you have been running after this desire and that, and you have been running and running and you have been coming again and again to frustration.That each desire brings misery, that there is no fulfillment through desire. That you never reach anywhere, that contentment is impossible. Seeing this truth, that running after desires takes you nowhere, you stop. Not that you make any effort to stop. If you make any effort to stop it is again running, in a subtle way. You are still desiring--maybe now it is desirelessness that you desire. If you are making an effort to go in, you are still going out. Any effort can only take you out, outwards. All journeys are outward journeys, there is no inward journey. How can you journey inwards? You are already there, there is no point in going. When going stops, journeying disappears; when desiring is no more clouding your mind, you are in. This is called turning in. But it is not a turning at all, it is simply not going out."
Osho This Very Body The Buddha Chapter 9
Commentary:
Danielle, the woman in this image has a faint smile on her face, she is serene. I do not feel there are any negative influences for you coming up in the next three months at all. That being said, the only thing that I might add is to watch your nerves and just try to relax a little bit. Try to watch all the mental antics racing through your mind at this time, as going on in someone else. Detach a little bit and breathe deep. You already know in your heart you are in the right place, on the right path, and arriving just at the expected time.
Unpredictable: Elements of the current situation that could be positive or negative depending on how the questioner reacts to them. Chaos theory. The unexpected.
Awareness
Osho Zen says, "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:
Danielle, there might be the aspect of a morality judgment being brought up to you in the next three months. Judgement from others because of your ideas, lifestyle, etc. I truly believe no one has that right and I am sure you feel the same. Let the judgements come and let them go, let them just roll off your shoulders. The limited views of others has no place in your life and should take up no space in your mind. Let them say or do as they will, just send them back pure love because obviously they might need just a wee bit more in their lives!
Synthesis: A summary of the message contained in the other cards, or their logical outcome.
Traveling
Osho Zen says, "Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal--just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination. What will you do by getting to a destination? Nobody has asked this, because everybody is trying to have some destination in life. But the implications... If you really reach the destination of life, then what? Then you will look very embarrassed. Nowhere to go...you have reached to the final destination--and in the journey you have lost everything. You had to lose everything. So standing naked at the final destination, you will look all around like an idiot: what was the point? You were hurrying so hard, and you were worrying so hard, and this is the outcome."
Osho Rinzai: Master of the Irrational Chapter 7
Commentary:
Overall, Danielle, I see the next three months as being a wonderful fulfilling time for you. Very busy indeed, but you will pull it off and keep yoursel grounded in the process. Something that you have been working towards will come to fruitation in the next three months. But that will not be the end and the journey will not stop there.
When this card appears in a reading, it indicates a time of movement and change. It may be a physical movement from one place to the next, or an inner movement from one way of being to another. But whatever the case, this card promises that the going will be easy and will bring a sense of adventure and growth; there is no need to struggle or plan too much. The Traveling card also reminds us to accept and embrace the new and invites new friends and experiences into our lives.
Thank you Danielle, for the pleasure to do this reading for you. I hope this gives you some insights into what the next three months has in store for you. Do you have any questions?
Light, Love, and Laughter, Gina
Thanks, Gina, this seems very fitting at this time... finishing one stage of the site upgrades, and undertaking another... in the gap between them... and it is this next one that will bring some interesting challenges.... things are indeed changing... My birthday coming up, so I'll be sharing some love laughter with friends and family over the next few months - and we have a family celebration coming up for my mother... thanks a lot, this is helpful! I guess the biggest question is whether or not I will have the money to fix the deck, and make the improvements to the kitchen and upstairs bath that I need to??? Lotsa LLLove, Danielle
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