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BLUE

Going With The Flow	Friendliness	Celebration	Turning In	Clinging To The Past
The Seeker	Predictions	Letting Go	Laziness	Harmony
Receptivity	Trust	Understanding	Healing

GREY

Consciousness 213 x 315	Schizophrenia 213 x 315	Ice-olation 213 x 314	Postponement 214 x 315	Comparison 212 x 312
The Burden 213 x 314	Politics 213 x 314	Guilt 215 x 314	Sorrow 213 x 315	Rebith 212 x 314
Morality 213 x 314	Fighting 214 x 313	Mind 212 x 314	Control 213 x 316

 PURPLE

The Fool 210 x 314	Existence 212 x 316	Inner Voice 214 x 319	Creativity 216 x 313	The Rebel 210 x 317
Nothingness 216 x 314	The Lovers 214 x 314	Awareness 216 x 318	Courage 214 x 314	Aloneness 213 x 314
Change 212 x 313	Breakthrough 214 x 315	New Vision 212 x 314	Transformation 210 x 317	Intergration 213 x 314
Conditioning 213 x 313	Thunderbolt 214 x 315	Silence 213 x 315	Past Lives 209 x 316	Innocence 211 x 312
Beyond Illusion 213 x 311	Completion 209 x 313	The Master 212 x 312

RAINBOW

Maturity 213 x 313	Moment To Moment 211 x 316	Guidance 214 x 313	The Miser 213 x 315	The Outsider 213 x 313
Compromise 213 x 316	Patience 210 x 316	Ordinariness 212 x 316	Ripeness 211 x 314	We Are The World 213 x 316
Flowering 213 x 315	Slowing Down 212 x 316	Adventure 213 x 312	Abundance 212 x 313

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Introduction

The Osho Zen Tarot is inspired by the work of Osho, a teacher from India (1931-1990). The artist Ma Deva Padma is a meditative artist and disciple of Osho. The goal of this deck is awareness. It is presented as "a transcendental game of Zen ... a wake-up call to tune in to sensitivity, intuition, compassion, receptivity, courage and individuality." The Osho Zen Tarot is divided into the standard major and minor arcanas, but the usual identifiers on each card are absent. The cards are distinguished through the color and numbering/symbol in a small diamond at the bottom of each card. There is also a keyword meaning associated with each card. The court cards are not always pictured as people. They are identified by a direction arrow in the diamond.

Style of Suit Cards (2-10): story scenes

Also Included: Instruction book

Major Arcana:
Fool, Existence, Inner Voice, Creativity, The Rebel, No-Thingness, Lovers, Awareness, Courage, Aloneness, Change, Breakthrough, New Vision, Transformation, Integration, Conditioning, Thunderbolt, Silence, Past Lives, Innocence, Beyond Illusion, Completion.

Suit Names:
 Fire (Wands), Water (Cups), Clouds (Swords), Rainbows (Pentacles)

Court Cards:
King, Queen, Knight, Page

Links to Other Sites:

Osho website
Evelyn Henry's review of the Osho Zen Tarot on Michele Jackson's website
Lee Bursten's review of the Osho Zen Tarot on Michele Jackson's website
Wicce's review of the Osho-Zen Tarot

The Transcendental Game of Zen

Introduction

During the course of thirty years of talks to seekers and friends, Osho would answer their questions, or comment on the teachings of the world's great sages and scriptures. His talks continue to bring fresh insight to everything, from obscure Vedic scriptures to the familiar sayings of Jesus. He speaks with equal authority on the Hassids and the Sufis, the Bauls, Yoga and the Buddhists.

Ultimately Osho concentrates on transmitting the unique wisdom of Zen, because, he says, Zen is the one spiritual tradition whose approach to the inner life of human beings has weathered the test of time and is still relevant to contemporary humanity.

Unlike other religions, which have fallen prey to hero worship and dogmatism, Zen insists on the unique capacity of every human being to reach enlightenment--of freedom from the illusions of ego created by the mind. And it insists that this capacity can be realized only through meditation -- not by following certain rituals, adhering to a set of rules, or imitating the example of others, however worthy, but only by an alert and non-judgmental attentiveness to one's own thoughts, actions and feelings.

When we practice this alertness, this meditative approach to life, it soon brings the awareness that we each contain an unchanging, undisturbed, and eternal center of watchfulness--a center that has the capacity to see life as a great adventure, a play, a mystery school, and, finally, a blissful journey with no purpose other than to delight in every step along the way.

In Osho's words, it is the capacity not to worship buddhas but to become a Buddha; not to follow others but to develop the awareness within that brings a quality of light and love to all that we do. Osho has always been more than just an orator or philosopher, however. In the commune of friends that has surrounded him he has created an atmosphere where the truths he speaks of can be directly experienced.

To travel the path in the company of Osho is not to retreat to the mountains to lead a life of asceticism and repose, far away from the marketplace. On the contrary, it is to engage oneself totally in the task of waking up, through a rich variety of meditations, physical healing and psychological therapies, lots of laughter and playfulness, and healthy doses of creativity and hard work.

Cleaning the floor is as much a meditation as sitting silently in the presence of the master, and confronting the power struggles of one's fellow workers in the kitchen is as significant as understanding the Diamond Sutra spoken by Gautam Buddha Even the ups and downs of love affairs have their place in the journey to discover who we are. It is in the context of this approach to life, this commitment to making the whole of life a meditation, that this tarot deck was created. And it is dedicated to the Buddha within each and every one of us.

The Buddha is nobody's monopoly, it is nobody's copyright. It is everybody's innermost being. You don't have to be a Buddhist to be a Buddha To be a Buddha transcends all concepts of religions; it is everybody's birthright. Persuade it to come along with you, to your daily activities, so everything in your life becomes a meditation, a grace, a beauty, a benediction.

Osho, No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity

Ma Deva Sarito

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