OshoZen Page of Water (Cups)

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But it is safer to stay within. Therefor a challenge: as the youtfuo page we cannot wait to grow older, but the thought of going it alone terrifies us. Perhaps this is why the budgie in the cage flutters her wings and doesn't join the others.

And why the association of air with a water card? The imprisonment of the mind may be by virtue a safe refuge from the storm.
 

Master_Margarita

The following quote seems most apropos to this card today:

"In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression--that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom. It is in this context that we must understand moral precepts and moral rules."

Jack Kornfield, Living Dharma from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book
 

Master_Margarita

The following quote seems most apropos to this card today:

"In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression--that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom. It is in this context that we must understand moral precepts and moral rules."

Jack Kornfield, Living Dharma from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book