Carta da semana ~ Adiamento

29.05 Carta da semana

0 de Nuvens (a mente): ADIAMENTO

Adiar é simplesmente estupidez. Amanhã também será necessário decidir; então, por que não resolver hoje mesmo? Você acha que amanhã estará mais sábio do que hoje? Você acha que amanhã vai estar com um vigor maior do que o de hoje? Você acha que amanhã estará mais jovem, renovado em relação a hoje?Amanhã você vai estar mais velho, a sua coragem será menor; amanhã você vai estar mais experiente, e a sua capacidade de dissimulação será maior; amanhã a morte chegará mais próximo – você começará a titubear e a sentir mais medo. Nunca deixe para amanhã. Quem sabe? O amanhã pode chegar ou pode não chegar. Se é preciso decidir, decida agora mesmo. O dentista Dr. Vogel tinha concluído o exame 46 de uma bela e jovem cliente. “Srta. Baseman", ele disse, "acho que terei de arrancar os seus dentes do siso!” “Minha nossa!”, exclamou a mocinha, “seria preferível parir um bebê!” “Bem”, disse o Dr. Vogel, “quer decidir logo para que eu possa acertar a posição da cadeira?”Decida! Não continue adiando indefinidamente.
Comentário:
A mulher desta figura está vivendo em uma paisagem cinzenta, povoada de nuvens irreais, nitidamente recortadas contra o céu. Através da moldura de janela ela pode ver cores, luz e vida; e, embora quisesse escapar por ali – o que se percebe pelas cores do arco-íris em sua roupa – ela não é capaz de fazer isso. Há ainda em sua mente muita elucubração do tipo "mas, e se...?". Dizem que o amanhã nunca chega, e não importa a freqüência com que isso é repetido, parece que a maioria de nós tende a esquecer a verdade contida nessa frase. De fato, a única conseqüência certa de adiar as coisas é o tédio e a depressão nos dias de hoje, um sentimento de incompletude e de limitação. O alívio e o desenvolvimento que você sentirá quando puser de lado todos os pensamentos de indecisão que o estão impedindo de agir agora, farão com que você se pergunte por que esperou tanto tempo.

Crédito: Tarot Osho Zen

Card of the week ~ Postponement

05.29 Weekly Card

04 of Clouds: Postponement

The woman in this picture is living in a gray landscape, full of unreal, cut-out clouds. Through the window frame she can see colors and light and aliveness, and although she would like to move through the frame--as we can see by the rainbow colors appearing in her garment--she can't quite manage to do it. There is still too much 'whatif?' activity in her mind. Tomorrow never comes, they say, but no matter how often it is said, it seems that most of us tend to forget the truth of it. In fact, the one and only result of postponing things is a dull and depressing feeling of incompletion and 'stuckness' today. The relief and expansiveness you will feel once you put aside all the dithering thoughts that are preventing you from acting now will make you wonder why you ever waited so long.
Osho's Teachings
Postponement is simply stupid. Tomorrow you will also have to decide, so why not today? And do you think that tomorrow you will be wiser than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be livelier than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be younger than today, fresher than today? Tomorrow you will be older, your courage will be less; tomorrow you will be more experienced, your cunningness will be more; tomorrow death will come closer--you will start wavering and being more afraid. Never postpone for the tomorrow. And who knows? Tomorrow may come or may not come. If you have to decide you have to decide right now. Dr. Vogel, the dentist, finished his examination on a pretty young patient. "Miss Baseman," he said, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to pull out your wisdom teeth!" "Oh, my!" exclaimed the girl. "I'd rather have a baby!" "Well," said Dr. Vogel, "could you make up your mind so that I can adjust the chair?" Make up your mind. Don't go on postponing infinitely.

Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 8

Credit: Tarot Osho Zen

New Moon in Gemini ~ connect with love

New Moon in Gemini ~ The intention is to connect with love

At this New Moon i ask you to pay attention to the intentions you want to focus on; New Moon is the time to set intentions and think about all the plans we have and which we need to put into motion. We re-think our projects and prepare the changes we want to improve. We look inside to move further... and further!

This is a month of intense energies, in such a way that this is making us feel contracted, anxious, doubting, even. This intensity is provoking a lot of sicknesses due to the emotional aspect of this upgrade energies.

So, what i want you to understand is that all the challenges, emotions you have been feeling are just part of the process. You do not receive a lesson unless you need it. And all the pressures you may have been feeling are just preparing you for the Gemini phase, which means you will be facing choices, aspects through which you decide and chose what to do and be. Every moment you feel contracted and doubt, is a moment that happens so you ask yourself again if you are being who you are, if you trust enough on yourself and if you have the energy to perceive your dreams. And... whatever made you feel doubting in the first place is surely because fear is still there.

So... as you enter in the energies of Gemini you go to a phase of questioning and that is fine, just fine. Talk to yourself as you would do with your best friend and do not be scare of the answers. You are your best friend if you just open to truth, clarity and high intuition.

The Gemini aspect of polarity is what is needed on the Zodiac to push us to look at several aspects of life and situations. Gemini represents our internal wars which are fine as long as we see it with gratitude. This Gemini energy is our friend, has its purpose and surely helps opening the doors to a wider scenery of any situation.

I repost what i have blogged some time ago about the Gemini energy just as a reminder: "The legend of Gemini relates to Gemini Constellation, more specifically on the twin stars Pollux and Castor. The twin stars represent them selves the conflict, the anger and constant disagreement. These two brothers have lived in conflict and war since... forever... and they still battle! they are complete opposites and they fight the inner battle which reflects all our inner battles."

Everything has a purpose, a meaning and a goal and this is probably a moment to reflect longer and set an intention of knowing better, learning more about whatever... an intention of healing, clarifying and perceive joy. Centering on our heart, connect deeply with the truth of who and what we are, contemplating a lot more the reasons of why are we here, of what we are supposed to be and do and understanding the bigger picture of this mess. Ultimately we are all seeking, healing, building, creating and we are doing it together from the highest love that lies in all our actions, thoughts and feelings.

AUTHOR: MARIA JOSÉ ANTUNES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IF YOU WANT HEALING AND GUIDANCE SESSIONS OR TO BECOME MY SPIRITUAL STUDENT CONTACT ME AT:  mariajoseantunes66@gmail.com . Check "contact" page  https://mariajoseantunes.wordpress.com/contact/

Carta da semana ~ Preguiça

22.05 Carta da semana

09 de Água (emoções): PREGUIÇA

Quando você está preguiçoso, o sabor é negativo: você simplesmente sente que não tem energia, sente-se entediado; sente-se sonolento; você simplesmente se sente morto. Quando você está num estado de não-fazer, então, você está cheio de energia – é um sabor muito positivo. Você tem energia total, transbordante. Você se sente radiante, borbulhante, vibrante. Não há sonolência, você está perfeitamente consciente. Você não está morto – você está tremendamente vivo...Há certa possibilidade de que a mente o iluda: ela pode racionalizar a preguiça como sendo não-fazer. Ela é capaz de dizer "Eu me tornei um mestre Zen", ou "Eu acredito no Tao”, mas você não estará enganando ninguém. Apenas a você mesmo. Esteja alerta, portanto.
Comentário:
O cavalheiro desta figura claramente acha que já conquistou tudo. Senta-se na sua grande poltrona estofada e macia, à sombra do seu guarda-sol, com seus óculos escuros e seus chinelos cor-de-rosa, segurando um coquetel refrescante. Não sente disposição para se levantar e fazer algo, porque acha que já fez tudo. Ainda não se voltou para ver o espelho que está se partindo à sua direita, um sinal seguro de que essa posição que ele acha que finalmente galgou, está prestes a desmoronar e dissolver-se diante dos seus próprios olhos.A mensagem desta figura é de que esse recanto à beira da piscina não é o seu destino final. A jornada não terminou ainda, como demonstra o pássaro branco voando na vastidão do céu. Sua atitude autocomplacente certamente decorre de um sentimento verdadeiro de realização, mas agora já é hora de seguir em frente. Não importa quão confortáveis sejam os chinelos, quão saboroso o seu coquetel: há ainda céus acima de céus esperando por serem explorados
57. Harmonia – 10 de Água: Emoções

Crédito: Tarot Osho Zen

Card of the week ~ Laziness

05.22 Weekly Card

09 of Water: Laziness

This gentleman clearly thinks he's got it made. He sits in his big over-stuffed chair, wearing his sunglasses, shaded by his umbrella, with his pink slippers and his pina colada in his hand. He doesn't have the energy to get up and do anything because he thinks he's done it already. He hasn't yet turned to see the mirror cracking around him on his right, a sure sign that the place he thinks he's finally arrived at is about to shatter and dissolve before his very eyes. The message this card brings is that this poolside resort is not your final destination. The journey isn't over yet, as that white bird flying into the vastness of the sky is trying to show. Your complacency might have arisen from a real sense of achievement, but now it's time to move on. No matter how fuzzy the slippers, how tasty the pina colada, there are skies upon skies still waiting to be explored.
Osho's Teachings
When you are lazy, it is a negative taste: you simply feel that you have no energy, you simply feel dull; you simply feel sleepy, you simply feel dead. When you are in a state of non-doing then you are full of energy--it is a very positive taste. You have full energy, overflowing. You are radiant, bubbling, vibrating, You are not sleepy, you are perfectly aware. You are not dead--you are tremendously alive....There is a possibility the mind can deceive you: it can rationalize laziness as non-doing. It can say, "I have become a Zen master," or, "I believe in Tao"--but you are not deceiving anybody else. You will be deceiving only yourself. So be alert.
Osho A Sudden Clash of Thunder Chapter 8

What is ascension?

The micro and the macro are the same
We see all by looking inside
We change the universe by taking care of our selves

Ascending while living on earth does not mean you leave or lose your physical body. There are several levels of ascension and those levels refer to where you are stationed at a determined moment of space and time. While living on planet Earth your ascension regards to awareness, consciousness and the physical reflections of this growth mean you are able to transform the frequency your body vibrates at. The ascension process cannot happen without these changes at the physical level because the difference of vibratory frequency of your body allows the chakras responsible for the connection with higher levels of existence to make the growth of consciousness possible. 
The word "ascension" refers to higher energies, higher as higher frequencies. Talking about energies in a scale we observe that the lower energies are called this way due to the density and impediment of free movement, considering that free movement relates to all infinite subjects any being can ever think about. The awareness of the self, awareness of all that is, the awareness of The One... opens infinite possibilities to life and to the understanding of life and the divine. One is not confine any more to any box! This growth does not happen fast, though crucial growth moments can happen at the speed of light, but they stabilize and then more wow moments, which we call "awaken moments" keep coming as we keep our doors to the infinite wide open.
As this process goes on, through moments of calmness, wow`s, speed phases, etc. the vibratory frequency of the being is gradually elevated. These terms such as high, elevate... do not mean one is bigger, higher or more important than any other... it means only that the being is able to connect with sublime parts of the self and of the divine and those parts exist only on the spheres that are free to live anywhere, any time and at any dimension, world, universe. This aspect of freedom is what defines higher energies. In opposition, the denser energies are confined to control systems such as politics, economics, power and religion, Matrix, poverty, judgment, manipulation, low self-esteem, prejudice, etc. These energies do not allow free thinking beings, therefore they do not allow energies to grow within one self or within a group/community.
The ascension is done by each individual and it reflects itself on all collectives. From the nuclear groups as a family and friends to schools, towns, countries and to the whole world. It has to be done this way because each being is a whole universe, it has within everything and it has all powers needed to fulfil pure life. Each one of us is responsible of a chain reaction to the way we live our lives, feel and think. We are more than we think we are and if a collective is made by beings it will be exactly what beings are made of at that moment. If all beings of a group think they are powerless, that group will be powerless
Ascension is all about FREEDOM and UNITY in opposition to slavery and fear. The world has been living by one single law: DIVISION! Through division the controllers have everything done, they just need to create division and the humans buy it, react exactly as the controlers expect and this nightmare of life on Planet Earth is a never-ending story of terror. So... ascension is all about opening to different truths, truths that are the opposite of what has been dividing us all the time, freedom of thought so we can be sovereign and not controlled and work towards unity as a reflection of love and peace that each of us grew inside.
Looks like ascension is all about you or me... but no! ascension is about everyone and everything. Ultimately we are just part of a great plan a grand heart full of desire to let joy fill all dimension, worlds and universes. Is all about freedom,peace and happiness... and no, it is not just about our planet... it is part of a bigger thing, a bigger heart from which we come, from which we remember that life isn't just this, that love can be sublime and life is infinite.

AUTHOR: MARIA JOSÉ ANTUNES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IF YOU WANT HEALING AND GUIDANCE SESSIONS OR TO BECOME MY SPIRITUAL STUDENT CONTACT ME AT:  mariajoseantunes66@gmail.com . Check "contact" page  https://mariajoseantunes.wordpress.com/contact/

Carta da semana ~ Supressão

15.05 Carta da semana

10 de Fogo: SUPRESSÃO

Em sânscrito, a palavra é ´alaya vigyan´: a casa em cujo porão você vai juntando coisas que gostaria de fazer, mas que não pode por causa das condições sociais, da cultura, da civilização. Essas coisas, porém, vão se acumulando ali, e muito indiretamente passam a afetar as suas ações, a sua vida. Elas não podem encará-lo diretamente -- você as obrigou a ficar na escuridão; mas, do escuro, elas continuam influenciando o seu comportamento. Elas são perigosas: é arriscado manter todas essas inibições dentro de você.
É possível que essas sejam as coisas que atingem um clímax, quando uma pessoa enlouquece. A loucura não é outra coisa senão todas essas repressões chegando a um ponto em que você já não consegue controlá-las. A loucura, porém, é aceitável, ao passo que a meditação não -- e a meditação é o único caminho para tornar uma pessoa absolutamente sã.

Osho The Great Zen Master Ta Hui Chapter 11

Comentário:

A figura desta carta apresenta-se literalmente "emaranhada em nós". Sua luz ainda brilha no íntimo, mas esse personagem reprimiu sua própria vitalidade na tentativa de corresponder a muitas exigências e expectativas. Abriu mão de todo o seu próprio poder e visão, em troca de ser aceito por essas mesmas forças que o aprisionaram. O perigo de reprimir dessa maneira a própria energia natural é visível nas rachaduras de uma erupção vulcânica que está para acontecer em toda a volta da figura.

A verdadeira mensagem desta carta é que é necessário encontrar uma saída de cura para essa explosão iminente. É essencial encontrar uma maneira de dar vazão a qualquer tensão e stress que possam estar se acumulando, neste momento, dentro de você. Soque um travesseiro, dê pulos, procure uma área deserta e berre contra o céu vazio: qualquer coisa que possa ativar sua energia e consiga fazê-la circular livremente. Não espere que aconteça uma catástrofe.

Card of the week ~ Suppression

05.15 Weekly Card

10 of Fire: Suppression

The figure on this card is quite literally "all tied up in knots". His light still shines within, but he has repressed his own vitality trying to meet so many demands and expectations. He has given up all his own power and vision in return for being accepted by the very same forces that have imprisoned him. The danger of suppressing one's natural energy in this way is apparent in the cracks of a volcanic eruption about to take place around the edges of the image. The real message of the card is to find a healing outlet for this potential explosion. It is essential to find a way to release whatever tensions and stresses might be building up inside you right now. Beat on a pillow, jump up and down, go out into the wilderness and scream at the empty sky--anything to shake up your energy and allow it to circulate freely. Don't wait for a catastrophe to happen.
Osho's Teachings
In Sanskrit the name is alaya vigyan, the house where you go on throwing into the basement things that you want to do but you cannot, because of social conditions, culture, civilization. But they go on collecting there, and they affect your actions, your life, very indirectly. Directly, they cannot face you--you have forced them into darkness, but from the dark side they go on influencing your behavior. They are dangerous, it is dangerous to keep all those inhibitions inside you. It is possible that these are the things that come to a climax when a person goes insane. Insanity is nothing but all these suppressions coming to a point where you cannot control them anymore. But madness is acceptable, while meditation is not--and meditation is the only way to make you absolutely sane.
Osho The Great Zen Master Ta Hui Chapter 11

Carta da semana ~ O sonho

08.05 Carta da semana

6 de Água (Emoções): O SONHO

Isto tem sido dito repetidas vezes no decorrer dos tempos. Todas as pessoas religiosas têm afirmado que: "Sozinhos nós chegamos a este mundo, e sozinhos partiremos". Toda ideia que envolve estar junto é ilusória. A própria ideia de companheirismo aparece porque estamos sós, e o isolamento fere. Queremos neutralizar o nosso isolamento com relacionamentos...Por isso é que nos deixamos envolver tanto com o amor. Tente entender a questão. Normalmente você pensa que se apaixonou por uma mulher, ou por um homem, porque ela é bela, ou ele é belo. Essa não é a verdade. A verdade é exatamente o contrário: Você "caiu de amor" porque não consegue ficar sozinho. Você estava mesmo pronto para "cair". De uma maneira ou de outra você iria fugir de si mesmo. E existem pessoas que não se apaixonam por mulheres ou homens – então se apaixonam pelo dinheiro. Elas passam a acumular dinheiro, ou embarcam na aventura do poder – elas se tornam políticos. Isso também é fugir do próprio isolamento. Se você observar o Homem, se observar com profundidade a si mesmo, ficará surpreso: todas as suas atividades podem ser reduzidas a uma única origem. Essa origem é o medo que você tem da solitude. Tudo o mais são apenas desculpas. O motivo verdadeiro é que você se sente muito só.
Comentário:
Em alguma tardezinha encantada, você irá encontrar a sua alma gêmea, a pessoa perfeita que corresponderá a todas as suas necessidades, e será a concretização de todos os seus sonhos. Certo? Errado! Essa fantasia que os cantores e os poetas gostam tanto de perpetuar tem suas raízes em memórias do útero, onde estávamos tão seguros e "unificados" com nossas mães; não é de admirar que sejamos obcecados por retornar a essa condição durante toda a nossa vida. Mas, falando numa linguagem crua, é um sonho infantil. E é surpreendente que nos apeguemos a ele com tanta teimosia, diante da realidade.Ninguém, seja o seu atual companheiro ou alguém com quem você sonha no futuro, tem a obrigação de trazer-lhe à felicidade numa bandeja – nem poderia, ainda que quisesse. O amor verdadeiro não advém de tentativas de satisfazer nossas necessidades por meio da dependência com relação à outra pessoa, mas por meio do desenvolvimento da nossa riqueza interior, e do nosso amadurecimento. Com isso, passamos a ter tanto amor para dar, que amantes serão espontaneamente atraídos por nós.

Crédito: Tarot Osho Zen

Card of the week ~ The dream

05.08 Weekly Card

6 of Water: The Dream

Some enchanted evening you're going to meet your soulmate, the perfect person who will meet all your needs and fulfill all your dreams. Right? Wrong! This fantasy that songwriters and poets are so fond of perpetuating has its roots in memories of the womb, where we were so secure and "at one" with our mothers; it's no wonder we have hankered to return to that place all our lives. But, to put it quite brutally, it is a childish dream. And it's amazing we hang on to it so stubbornly in the face of reality. Nobody, whether it's your current mate or some dreamed-of partner in the future, has any obligation to deliver your happiness on a platter--nor could they even if they wanted to. Real love comes not from trying to solve our neediness by depending on another, but by developing our own inner richness and maturity. Then we have so much love to give that we naturally draw lovers towards us.

Osho's Teachings
This has been said again and again, down through the ages. All the religious people have been saying this: "We come alone into this world, we go alone." All togetherness is illusory. The very idea of togetherness arises because we are alone, and the aloneness hurts. We want to drown our aloneness in relationship.... That's why we become so much involved in love. Try to see the point. Ordinarily you think you have fallen in love with a woman or with a man because she is beautiful, he is beautiful. That is not the truth. The truth is just the opposite: you have fallen in love because you cannot be alone. You were going to fall. You were going to avoid yourself somehow or other. And there are people who don't fall in love with women or men--then they fall in love with money. They start moving into money or into a power trip, they become politicians. That too is avoiding your aloneness. If you watch man, if you watch yourself deeply, you will be surprised--all your activities can be reduced to one single source. The source is that you are afraid of your aloneness. Everything else is just an excuse. The real cause is that you find yourself very alone.
Osho Take it Easy, Volume 2 Chapter 1

Sacred Geometry - Sri Yantra

Sri Yantra represents both  the micro and the macro cosmos

THE "SRI YANTRA" IS THE IMAGE OF ALL OF US = PILGRIMS ON A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY. ITS A VISION OF COMPLETENESS AND WHOLENESS SO ONE CAN CONTEMPLATE THE FULLNESS AND UNDERSTAND HOW INTER-WINDED IS EVERYTHING IS = FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END OF THE JOURNEY. THE REALIZATION OF ALL THAT IS. THE TOTAL ENLIGHTENMENT.

THE ANCIENT HINDU SYMBOL "SRI YANTRA" IS COMPOSED OF NINE TRIANGLES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY FORM 43 SMALLER TRIANGLES. IT ALSO REPRESENTS A GRID "THE 64 TETRAHEDRON GRID" WHICH REPRESENTS ALL COSMO`S LIFE ASPECTS `.

ALL OTHER YANTRAS DERIVES FROM THIS ONE. THE SRI IS THE COMPLETENESS. FROM THE MICRO COSMOS TO THE MACRO, EVERYTHING IS REPRESENTED ON THE GEOMETRIC SACRED FIGURE. ALL STAGES OF HUMAN LIFE, FROM THE MATERIALISTIC STAGE, TO THE SPIRITUAL, IS REPRESENTED ON THIS FLOWER OF LIFE.

THE CENTER IS CALLED THE "BINDU"; THE NINE TRIANGLES THAT SURROUND THE CENTER ARE COMPOSED BY 5 DOWNWARD TRIANGLES THAT REPRESENT "SHAKTI" = THE FEMALE ENERGY; THE 4 UPRIGHT TRIANGLES ARE "SHIVA" = THE MALE ENERGY.

MADE BY 5 TRIANGLES =THE SHAKTI WHICH IS THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE. ALL THE NINE INTERLOCKING TRIANGLES FORM ANOTHER 43 TRIANGLES WHICH HOUSEHOLD A DEITY REPRESENTING IMPORTANT SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE.

THE ENTANGLED TRIANGLES ARE SURROUNDED BY 2 CIRCLES OF LOTUS PETALS WHICH IS INSIDE A FRAME CALLED "EARTH CITADEL".

THIS SYMBOL HAS A HUGE SIMILARITY WITH THE STAR OF DAVID, WHICH I WILL BE TALKING ON THE NEXT "SACRED GEOMETRY" POST SOON. THE SIMILARITY IS ABOUT THE TRIANGLE FIGURES, WHICH REMINDES US OF: "AS ABOVE SO BELLOW", EARTH AND HEAVEN, POLARITIES... WHICH ULTIMATELY AND GOING BACK TO THE SRI YANTRA HAS A GREAT MESSAGE: SHOWING US THAT THE WAY IS, ULTIMATELY, FINDING THE MACRO WITHIN  THE MICRO. SAME AS SAYING: LOOK WITHIN FOR WHAT YOU SEEK OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF.

USED ON MEDITATIONS, CONTEMPLATING THE SRI YANTRA TAKES YOGIS TO HIGH LEVELS OF MEDITATIVE ENLIGHTENMENT. WHEN WE, PILGRIMS, LOOK AND CONTEMPLATE THIS GEOMETRIC FIGURE, WE UNDERSTAND WITHIN HOW EVERYTHING IS SO COMPLEX, BUT ALSO SIMPLE, AND HOW ALL ASPECTS AND PHASES ARE INTERCONNECTED AND... ALSO HOW EVERYTHING IS SO NEAR THE END OF THE JOURNEY, WHICH ULTIMATELY IS THE FULLNESS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

AUTHOR: MARIA JOSÉ ANTUNES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IF YOU WANT HEALING AND GUIDANCE SESSIONS OR TO BECOME MY SPIRITUAL STUDENT CONTACT ME AT:  mariajoseantunes66@gmail.com .