You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That’s what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth – everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.

Comment: This naked figure sits on the lotus leaf of perfection, gazing at the beauty of the night sky. She knows that ‘home’ is not a physical place in the outside world, but an inner quality of relaxation and acceptance. The stars, the rocks, the trees, the flowers, fish and birds – all are our brothers and sisters in this dance of life. We human beings tend to forget this, as we pursue our own private agendas and believe we must fight to get what we need. But ultimately, our sense of separateness is just an illusion, manufactured by the narrow preoccupations of the mind. Now is the time to look at whether you are allowing yourself to receive the extraordinary gift of feeling ‘at home’ wherever you are. If you are, be sure to take time to savor it so it can deepen and remain with you. If on the other hand you’ve been feeling like the world is out to get you, it’s time to take a break. Go outside tonight and look at the stars.

In existence there is nobody who is superior and nobody who is inferior. The blade of grass and the great star are absolutely equal... But man wants to be higher than others, he wants to conquer nature, here he has to fight continuously. All complexity arises out of this fight. The innocent person is one who has renounced fighting; who is no longer interested in being higher, who is no longer interested in performing, in proving that he is someone special; who has become like a rose flower or like a dewdrop on the lotus leaf; who has become part of this infinity; who has melted, merged and become one with the ocean and is just a wave; who has no idea of the I. The disappearance of the I is innocence.

Comment:
In this image of the lotus leaves in the early morning, we can see in the rippling of the water that one drop has just fallen. It is a precious moment, and one that is full of poignancy. In surrendering to gravity and slipping off the leaf, the drop loses its identity and joins the vastness of the water below. We can imagine that it must have trembled before it fell, just on the edge between the known and the unknowable. <> To choose this card is a recognition that something has finished, something is completing. Whatever it is - a job, a relationship, a home you have loved, anything that might have helped you to define who you are -- it is time to let go of it, allowing any sadness but not trying to hold on. Something greater is awaiting you, new dimensions are there to be discovered. You are past the point of no return now, and gravity is doing its work. Go with it - it represents liberation. 

When thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing , dancing ecstatic drunk with the divine there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health with such naturalness and spontaneity how can there be a war? Life has been given to you to create and to rejoice and to celebrate. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration, do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

Comment: Humanity is depicted here as a rainbow of beings, dancing around the mandala of the earth. With their hands joined together enjoying gratitude for the gift of life. This card represents a time of communication of sharing the riches that each of us brings to the whole. There is no clinging, no grasping. It is a circle without fear of feelings of inferiority and superiority. <> When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence. When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation.

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky. Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man.  The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

Comment:
Life is rarely as serious as we believe it to be, and when we recognize this fact, it responds by giving us more and more opportunities to play. The woman in this card is celebrating the joy of being alive, like a butterfly that has emerged from its chrysalis into the promise of the light. She reminds us of the time we were children, discovering seashells on the beach or building castles in the sand, without any concern that the waves might come and wash them away in the next moment. She knows that life is a game, and she's playing the part of a clown right now with no sense of shame or embarrassment or pretense. <> When the page of fire enters your life, it is a sign that you are ready for the fresh and the new. Something wonderful is just on the horizon, and you have just the right quality of playful innocence and clarity to welcome it with open arms.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Truth is functioning through you. When your eyes are open, it is truth opening his eyes. When you close your eyes, it is truth closing his eyes . This is a tremendous meditation. If you can simply understand the device, you do not have to do anything; whatever you are doing is being done by truth. You are walking, it is truth; you are sleeping it is truth resting; you are speaking, it is truth speaking. You are silent it is truth that is silent. 

This is one of the most simple meditation techniques. Slowly, everything settles by this simple formula, and then there is no need for the technique. When you are cured, you throw away the meditation, you throw away the medicine. Then you live as truth- alive, radiant, contented, blissful, a song unto yourself. Your whole life becomes a prayer without words, or better to say a prayerfulness, a grace, a beauty which does not belong to our mundane world, a ray of light coming from beyond into the darkness of our world.

Comment:
The Inner Voice speaks not in words but in the wordless language of the heart. It is like an oracle who only speaks the truth. If it had a face, it would be like the face at the center of this card- alert, watchful, and able to accept both the dark and the light, symbolized by the two hands holding the crystal.  The crystal itself represents the clarity that comes from transcending all dualities. The Inner Voice can also be playful, as it dives deep into the emotions and emerges again to soar towards the sky, like two dolphins dancing in the waters of life. It is connected with the cosmos, through the crescent-moon crown, and earth, as represented by green leaves on the figure’s kimono. There are times in our lives when too many voices seem to be pulling us this way and that. Our very confusion in such situations is a reminder to seek silence and centering within. Only then are we able to hear our truth.