Sunday, September 13, 2015

Resting in No-Thingness and trusting the Adventure

Today I asked my Osho Zen Tarot to tell me who God is for me right now. I hoped for No-thingness and I got No-Thingness. Don’t you just love it when that happens. 
This card is all about darkness, emptiness; Nothing to hold on to, no sense of direction. It is isn’t negative, nothing to be afraid of. In absolute darkness there are no shadows. This is the place between death and rebirth: The  gap between the outgoing and incoming breath. It is like the dark soil where a seed lies dormant until the spring.
Osho Zen Tarot No-Thingness  Page of Rainbows Adventure

So again I asked what would be a helpful attitude towards  this Nothingness and I pulled the Page of Rainbows - Adventure. Here we see a child who moves from the darkness into the rainbow of light, led by her sense of wonder and her innocence. Just moving forward without an agenda or a map. Trusting that all is well and letting go of all expectations. She is just moving forward step by step, moment by moment
For now I feel nurtured by the darkness of Nothingness and I am not in a hurry yet to go on an adventure but it is good to know that from here out there will be Something to discover  if I keep an open mind. And perhaps I am already on this adventure without being actual aware of it….?
vision board spiritual quest
A few day few day ago I’ve made a vision board which turned out to be focused around my spiritual journey into the unknown. It has become an open, peaceful and spacious collage. The texts say:
Intuition as your compass
Go your own way (literally: Go your own wise way )

20 comments:

  1. The vision board is beautiful! The Emptiness card made me think of the 11th chapter of the Tao te Ching:
    Thirty spokes join in one hub
    In its emptiness, there is the function of a vehicle
    Mix clay to create a container
    In its emptiness, there is the function of a container
    Cut open doors and windows to create a room
    In its emptiness, there is the function of a room
    Therefore, that which exists is used to create benefit
    That which is empty is used to create functionality

    I also had the thought that the adventure can be in the "being" instead of the "going or doing". :)

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    1. Thank you so much for quoting this verse here. I feel like I am more "busy" with being than with doing lately. I am in no hurry at all. And that is progress enough for me :D

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  2. This was an interesting experience http://kalamaquilts.blogspot.com/search?q=soul+collage
    I've never been patient enough to compile a bunch of magazines at home though. Love our vision board

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    1. Thank you sharyn
      I have a collection of pictures which appeal to me some way or another and then yes there is the actual flipping through the magazines. Most of them were gifted to me by my mother

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  3. Wow - that was just beautiful!!! That deck is really in tune with you. It is one of my favourites as wel. I love it when you share your creativity because it inspires me as well. I don't know why I postpone any creative work... once I get in the flow I love it so much. I suppose it's the "getting into the flow" part that can be tricky at least for me ; )

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    1. Thank you Carol! Same here! Starting with something creative is sooo hard but when I am "in the flow" it is such a wonderful feeling. When I hear my self humming I know I've jumped in that creative river. :D

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  4. What an encouraging pairing. It feels like you're well on your wise and creative way, Ellen.

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    1. Yes it sure is! and I think so too Rose. I feel a lot more confident then a few weeks ago :)

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  5. No-Thingness is such an interesting card, and I still need to get my head around it ;) Your interpretation has helped me understand it a bit better, especially getting new ideas how to apply it in a reading without puzzling the person I'm reading for. Perhaps it also means to clear your mind from all constraints, especially since it's in the position of the Hierophant. Osho always encouraged his followers to live a more unconventional life by letting go of the traditional social concepts....

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    1. I agree with you Christiane. This version of the Hierophant does strip away all the dogma's and the rules mostly made by old men... :D I find No-Thingness a rather soothing and quiet place to be card and at the same time it is brimming with possibilities

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  6. What a beautiful pair of cards :) And I love your collage as well. It's nice to have visuals sometimes like this, and I even think just the process of thinking through what is meaningful, and then assembling them together, is helpful and meditative.

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    1. I love making these. Just pinning pictures on a cork-board so you can reuse them again for another "vision" I like it also that it turned out so very differently than I had in mind

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  7. Love the vision board. I had been thinking of doing something similar lately. Maybe not a full on vision board but a collage of some kind. I made a vision board years ago and still have it...it was fun to make. :) Enjoy your time of No-Thingness!

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    1. I started using a corkboard for these kind of "Collages" It keeps me from wanting to make it perfect. The downside or perhaps the upside is you don't get to keep them :)

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  8. Your No-Thingness card reminds me of the Void, that place infinite potential where all emerges from and all returns. We can experience it in meditation if we let go and attempt to Un-Be. It seems perfect the next card you have contains an image of a child, how perfect :) Love the vision board too, though as a collage artist I'd probably stick it all down!

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    1. Yes I see it as a Void too. A Nameless Nothing and Everything in one. I can see why you would want to glue it all on paper but it seems this works better for me. When I did glue it one a piece paper or in large art journal it took me hours before iI was done and I was never truly satisfied with the result :)

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  9. Yes, when I make a collage I have to leave it just pieced down for a day or two as invariably once I've glued it down I'll see something I need to change.

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  10. No-Thingness is a lovely card! It always makes me think of Rachel Pollack's description of Kabbalist theories of creation, the Ain Soph or fertile void (which of course sounds like the pre-big bang theory of creation, too). A universe of potential :) Fits beautifully with your wide open spaces in the collage!

    The last couple of days, I've been re-thinking my priorities. I need to spend more time on meditation and connecting to spirit again...

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    1. I've been seeing this need for meditation and going within in many posts and vlogs. Feeling it myself too but like many of us I find it is hard to commit myself again without any expectation on how it should be and feel.Just carving some time out each day to practice... how difficult can this be???
      Good luck! with the right intention you are halfway there

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