presents

Oracles, Tarot and Other Divination Tools Living in the HereNow

Since the early ages humankind has consulted oracles

for example the oracle of Delphi.

People looked to the stars to seek their destiny;

witches or wise women used to read the future in tea leaves or tortoise shells.

Here we use your tarot deck as a tool for meditation

to help us to move to the present,

from the head to the heart.

Osho, why are we continually avoiding this moment?

There has been

a great misunderstanding

between life

and time.

Time is thought to

consist of three tenses:

past, present, future

which is wrong.

Time consists only of past

and future.

It is life which consists of the present.

So those who want to live,

for them there is no

other way

than to live this moment.

Only the present is existential.

The past is simply a collection of memories,

and the future is nothing but

your imaginations, your dreams.

Reality

is herenow.

Those who want just to think about life,

about living,

about love,

for them past and future are perfectly beautiful,

because they give them infinite scope.

They can decorate their past,

make it

as beautiful as they like

although they never lived it,

when it was present they were not there.

These are just

shadows,

reflections.

They were continuously running,

and while running they have seen a few things.

They think they have lived.

In the past

only death is

the reality,

not life.

In the future also, only death is the reality,

not life.

Those who have missed living in the past,

automatically,

to substitute

for the gap,

start dreaming about the future.

Their future is only a projection

out of the past.

Whatever they have missed in the past,

they are hoping for in the future;

and between the two nonexistences,

is the small existent moment

which is life.

For those who want to live, not to think about it;

to love,

not to think about it;

to be,

not to philosophize about it

there is no other alternative.

Drink

the present moment's juices,

squeeze it

totally,

because it is not going to come back again;

once gone, it is gone forever.

But because of the misunderstanding

which

has been

almost as old as man

and all the cultures have

joined in it

they have made the present part of time.

And the present has nothing to do with time.

If you are just here in this moment,

there is no time.

There is immense silence,

stillness,

no movement;

nothing is passing,

everything has come to a sudden stop.

The present gives you the opportunity

to dive deep into the waters of life,

or to fly high into the sky of life.

But on both sides there are dangers

past and future

are the most dangerous words in human language.

Between past and future,

living in the present

is almost like walking on a tight rope

on both sides there is danger.

But once you have

tasted the juice of the present,

you don't care about dangers.

Once you are in tune with life,

then nothing matters.

And to me

life is all there is.

You can call it "God,"

but that is not a good name

because religions have contaminated it.

You can call it "existence,"

which is beautiful.

But

what you call

it is not of any consequence

The understanding should be clear

that you have only one moment in your hands

the real moment.

And again and again you will get that real moment.

Either you live it

or you leave it unlived.

Most of the people

simply drag themselves from the cradle to the grave

without living at all

I have heard about a Sufi statement

that a man, when he died, suddenly realized,, "My God, I was alive."

But only death

as a contrast made him aware,

that for seventy years he had been alive,

but life itself

had not enriched him.

It is not the fault of life.

It is our misunderstanding.

My insistence for watchfulness

will give you life without even

thinking about it,

because watchfulness can only be in the present.

You can witness only the present.

Live totally and live intensely,

so that each moment becomes golden,

and your whole life

becomes a series of golden moments.

Such a person never dies,

because he has the Midas touch

whatever he touches becomes golden.

When he touches death, death also becomes golden.

He enjoys it as much as life -- or perhaps more

because death is more condensed than life. Life is spread over

seventy,eighty years.

Death happens in a single moment.

It is so condensed,

that if you have lived your life rightly,

you will be able to enter into the mystery of death.

And the mystery of death is that it is only a cover.

Inside is

your immortality,

your eternal life.

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