Thursday, December 30, 2010

This Time Around

it's all in the cards.  

Moment to Moment,
#2 in Minor Arcana
(from the Osho Zen Ta'rot deck)

"The past is no more and the future is not yet; both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don't exist.  One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist.  The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.  That's the only right direction.  Only such a man can enter into the golden gate.

The present is the golden gate.
Here-now is the golden gate.
...And you can be in the present only if you are not ambitious - no accomplishment, no desire to achieve power, money, prestige, even enlightenment, because all ambition leads you into the future.  Only a non-ambitious man can remain in the present.

A man who wants to be in the present has not to think, has just to see and enter the gate.  Experience will come, but experience is not to be premeditated.


Commentary:
This card challenges us to move away from our preoccupations with other space and other times, and to stay alert to what is happening in the here and now.  Life is a great ocean in which you can play if you drop all your judgments, your preferences and the attachment to the details of your long-term plans.  Be available to what comes your way, as it comes.  And don't worry if you stumble or fall; just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, have a good laugh, and carry on."

YESsssss.