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Friday, April 10, 2009 

Category: Life
This is from the Zen Tarot websitethe card is Conditioning:
Unless you drop your personality you will not be
able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence;
personality is imposed by the society. Personality is social
convenience.


Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality
will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the quality of the
lion; the lion moves alone. The sheep are always in the crowd, hoping
that being in the crowd will feel cozy. Being in the crowd one feels
more protected, secure. If somebody attacks, there is every possibility
in a crowd to save yourself. But alone? - only the lions move alone.

And every one of you is born a lion, but the society goes on
conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep. It gives you a
personality, a cozy personality, nice, very convenient, very obedient.
Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to
freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want
obedience.

Osho One Seed Makes the Whole Earth Green Chapter 4



Commentary:

This
card recalls an old Zen story, about a lion who was brought up by sheep
and who thought he was a sheep until an old lion captured him and took
him to a pond, where he showed him his own reflection. Many of us are
like this lion - the image we have of ourselves comes not from our own
direct experience but from the opinions of others. A "personality"
imposed from the outside replaces the individuality that could have
grown from within. We become just another sheep in the herd, unable to
move freely and unconscious of our own true identity.

It's time to take a look at your own reflection in the pond,
and make a move to break out of whatever you have been conditioned by
others to believe about yourself. Dance, run, jog, do gibberish -
whatever is needed to wake up the sleeping lion within.


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