One thing I did not mention about Pachamama - it abides by a raw friendly, ovo-vegetarian [eggs during breakfast] eating philosophy. In addition to the communal restaurant Food-A-Vida, there is a raw smoothie and dessert bar called Wild Treats. There, Pachamama has 3 Osho Tarot Card decks. Daily, I will shuffle and select one card to meditate on. Here is what I pulled Thursday, June 11th:
43. MIND
A readiness to take responsibility for the creation of your own misery, joy, negativity, positivity, hell or heaven. When this responsibility is understood and accepted, things start changing. Be open to a new possibility.
There is a famous parable:
Once a man was traveling, and entered paradise accidentally. Now, in the Indian concept of paradise there are wish-fulfilling tresses. You just sit underneath them, desire anything, and immediately it is fulfilled - there is no gap between the desire and the fulfillment.
The man was tired, so he fell asleep under this wish-fulfilling tree. When he awoke he was feeling very hungry, so he said, “I am feeling so hungry, I wish I could get some food from somewhere.” And immediately food appeared out of nowhere - just floating in the air, delicious food.
He was so hungry that he didn’t pay munch attention to where it had come from - when you are hungry, you are not philosophic. He immediately started eating, and the food was so delicious … then once his hunger was gone, he looked around. Now he was feeling satisfied.
Another thought rose in him: “If only I could get something to drink…” And there is still no prohibition in paradise; immediately, precious wine appeared.
Drinking the wine relaxedly in the cool breeze of paradise under the shade of hte tree, he started wondering, “What is going on? What is happening? Have I fallen into a dream, or are there some ghosts around who are playing tricks with me?”
And ghosts appeared. And they were ferocious, horrible, nauseating. And he started trembling, and a thought rose in him: “Now I am sure to be killed….”
And he was killed.
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This parable is an ancient parable of immense significance. Your mind is the wish-fulfilling tree - whatsoever you think, sooner or later, it is fulfilled. Sometimes the gap is such that you have completely forgotten that you desired it, so you can’t connect the source. But if you watch deeply you will find that all your thoughts are creating you and your life.
They create your hell, they create your heaven. They create your misery, they create your joy. They create the negative, they create the positive.
Everybody here is a magician. And everybody is spinning and weaving a magic world around themself … and then is caught. The spider itself is caught in its own web.
There is nobody torturing you except yourself. ANd once this is understood, things start changing. Then you can change your hell into a heaven; it is just a question of painting it from a different vision. The whole responsibility is yours.
And then a new possibility arises. You can stop creating the world. There is no need to create heaven and hell, there is no need to create at all. The creator can relax, retire.
And this retirement of mind is meditation.
