12.

New Vision
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer
an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the
insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found
your roots.

Otherwise, ordinarily, everybody is moving without roots, not knowing from where
their heart goes on receiving energy, not knowing who goes on breathing in them,
not knowing the life juice that is running inside them. It is not the body, it is not the
mind - it is something transcendental to all duality, that is called bhagavat - the
bhagavat in the ten directions ....

Your inner being, when it opens, first experiences two directions: the height, the
depth. And then slowly, slowly, as this becomes your established situation, you start
looking around, spreading into all other eight directions. And once you have
attained to the point where your height and your depth meet, then you can look
around to the very circumference of the universe. Then your consciousness starts
unfolding in all ten directions, but the road has been one.

Osho Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt Chapter 9

Commentary:

The figure on this card is being born anew, emerging from his earthbound roots and
growing wings to fly into the unbounded. The geometric shapes around the body of
the figure show the many dimensions of life simultaneously available to him. The
square represents the physical, the manifest, the known. The circle represents the
unmanifest, the spirit, pure space. And the triangle symbolizes the threefold nature
of the universe: manifest, unmanifest, and the human being who contains both.

Now you are presented with an opportunity to see life in all its dimensions, from the
depths to the heights. They exist together, and when we come to know from
experience that the dark and the difficult are needed as much as the light and easy,

then we begin to have a very different perspective on the world. By allowing all of
life's colors to penetrate us, we become more integrated.

13. Transformation
A master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions there are only teachers.
They teach you about subjects which you don't know, and they ask you to believe
because there is no way to bring those experiences into objective reality. Neither
has the teacher known them - he has believed them; he transfers his belief to
somebody else.

Zen is not a believer's world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls
who can drop all belief, unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their
pure existence without boundaries. But it brings a tremendous transformation.

Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in
metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from
base metal into gold. But its language has to be understood, not with your
reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just listening,
not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see
it, which has been eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha
called "eighty-four thousand doors" open.

Osho Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest Chapter 6

Commentary:

The central figure in this card sits atop the vast flower of the void, and holds the
symbols of transformation - the sword that cuts through illusion, the snake that
rejuvenates itself by shedding its skin, the broken chain of limitations, and the
yin/yang symbol of transcending duality. One of its hands rests on its lap, open and
receptive. The other reaches down to touch the mouth of a sleeping face,
symbolizing the silence that comes when we are at rest.

This is a time for a deep let-go. Allow any pain, sorrow, or difficulty just to be there,
accepting its "facticity." It is very much like the experience of Gautam Buddha when,
after years of seeking, he finally gave up, knowing there was nothing more that he
could do. That very night, he became enlightened.

Transformation comes, like death, in its own time. And, like death, it takes you from
one dimension into another.