Nothingness
Osho Zen Tarot Card — Nothingness
Being ‘in the gap’ can be disorienting and even scary. Nothing to hold on to, no sense of direction, not even a hint of what choices and possibilities might lie ahead. But it was just this state of pure potential that existed before the universe was created. All you can to now is to relax into this nothingness… fall into this silence between words..watch this gap between the outgoing and ingoing breath. And treasure each empty moment of the experience. Something scared is about to born.
No-thingness
Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential word — shunyata. The English word, the English equivalent, ‘nothingness’ is not such a beautiful word.
That’s why I would like to make it ‘no-thingness’ — because the nothing is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all. In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious — why create such despair?
Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey.
At the moment, I really feel like I am in this state of ‘nothingness’, or in the gap. I am holding on to this card for about two years now. At first, I was afraid to leave everything behind and left with nothing. Now, I have ‘nothing’. By nothing I mean that I had left my job, for which I’d been trained for more than 5 years, and found myself in a very unfamiliar place, packed only one suitcase for the two year’s journey.
Looking back and finding this card again, I feel relieved and confident about my future, convincing myself that today’s nothingness holds all possibilities ahead. Even the future holds ‘things’ for me, I will always come back to nothingness and remind that one’s life is the whole journey between the birth and the death, only to be experienced and felt in every moment of it.
Current state of being: having nothing, but full of faith and hope.
2021.02.22
