Osho Zen
Tarot -
Hierophant
Art and description by Ma Deva Padma
St. Martin's Press
ISBN 0-312-11733-7Being 'in
the gap' can be disorienting and even scary. Nothing to hold on
to, no sense of direction, not even a hint of what choices and
possibilities might lie ahead. But it was just this state of pure
potential that existed before the universe was created. All you
can do now is to relax into this no-thingness...fall into this
silence between the words...watch this gap between the outgoing
and incoming breath. And treasure each empty moment of the
experience. Something sacred is about to be born.
Osho's Commentary - No-Thingness
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.
Nishta
nishta@globalserve.net
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