ARE YOU "THE FOOL"?

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:

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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!