OtherWise said:
Hello peeples
This is my second coming (return) to the wonderful aeclectic community after a long break and after culling my collection of tarot packs I retain my original Rider Waite and my Osho Zen
The Osho Zen is the one I want to get to know better and was wondering if there's anyone else out there in AT land that might be interested in pondering these beautiful images and their symbolism with me?
thanks muchly for reading this
La
This is the only deck I use (as opposed to those I collect) and I'd be happy to participate in such a group if there was sufficient energy to sustain one. There was at one time a card-a-day thread using the OZT that finally petered out.
However, the only way to deal with this deck on its own terms is not only to understand but resonate with Osho's worldview. You might be able to read it intuitively from your own point of view but this would not be reading the deck Padma intended to create. Despite its title this deck is not about "Zen" at all; it's about Osho's interpretation of Zen, which would surely be rejected by nearly all the professional Zen teachers and practicioners around today. Anyone interested in getting in tune with this deck can choose among the over 400 books and who knows how many tapes of Osho's talks extending from around 1970 to his death in 1991. Let me recommend
The Grass Grows by Itself, a paperback fairly easily and cheaply found online. Read it not to get facts or even opinions but as poetry, which is what it is. If you find yourself in tune with what you read (or if you're lucky enough to find tapes, hear) you will be able to communicate with this deck without study, without memorization, without referring to the companion book, without joining a study group - without, in fact, any props at all. It's as clear as could be to anyone who's
in tune with it, which is something much different from "liking" it.