ARE YOU “THE
FOOL”?
I just
discovered the OSHO Zen Tarot thanks to a good friend who put it on my desk and
I started to play with it, asking questions about my life, my relationships, my
spiritual journey and many other things of interest to me.
Almost every
time, the card representing me was “0 THE FOOL”, and this is how OSHO
describes it:
0. The Fool
A fool is one who
goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his
experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and
he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say
that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so
pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Be a fool in the
Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don´t try to create a wall of knowledge around
you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping
it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you
remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe.
In the beginning it
is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of
you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and
robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from
you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you.
And each time you
don´t allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an
integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.
Commentary:
Moment to moment, and with every step,
the Fool leaves the past behind. He carries nothing more than his purity,
innocence and trust, symbolized by the white rose in his hand. The pattern on
his waistcoat contains the colors of all four elements of the tarot, indicating
that he is in harmony with all that surrounds him. His intuition is functioning
at its peak. At this moment the Fool has the support of the universe to make
this jump into the unknown. Adventures await him in the river of life.
The card indicates that if you trust your intuition right now, your feeling of
the 'rightness' of things, you cannot go wrong. Your actions may appear
'foolish' to others, or even to yourself, if you try to analyze them with the
rational mind. But the 'zero' place occupied by the Fool is the numberless
number where trust and innocence are the guides, not skepticism and past
experience.
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I thought long and hard. Am I really “the
Fool”?.
I remembered what my mother used to
tell me when I was a teenager: “Watch out
this friend of yours! She is taking advantage of you because you are too gullible”.
I did not listen to my mother, thinking that she was paranoid. And I went on
being a fool and being deceived, cheated on, lied to, taken advantage of,
especially by the men I had relationships with. Very few of my real friends fell
in this pattern, with the exception of two or three in all my years.
When I meet someone for the first time
my intuition tells me right away whether I can trust this person or not. When
the perception is negative, I try to find out more and generally I think that
my intuition was wrong because I discovered nice things about this individual
that superseded my first impression. I like to give the benefit of the doubt
and since I am an optimist, I always think that even in the most despicable
character, there still is some good left inside. And I usually try to dig into
this “good” and make it come out. Sometimes I am successful, and sometimes I
fail. However, this has never discouraged me from trusting in the good in all
of us. I am an astrologer, and I can see in a birth chart that not everything
is negative; even in the worst person there is a glimmer of light in him or
her, and I try to make it come out.
Recently my “gullible instinct” has
been put to the test very heavily, giving all and trusting 100% a person who
came into my life in early 2012. I followed my intuition without questioning
it. My friends think I am crazy, I sometimes think I am crazy, but I keep on
doing it. The meaning that OSHO gives to the Fool card applies in this case:
The card indicates that if you trust your
intuition right now, your feeling of the 'rightness' of things, you cannot go
wrong. Your actions may appear 'foolish' to others, or even to yourself, if you
try to analyze them with the rational mind. But the 'zero' place occupied by
the Fool is the numberless number where trust and innocence are the guides, not
skepticism and past experience
Only time will tell and I pray God that
I am right!