Through a Fool's Eyes

This week I'll be using the Roots of Asia Tarot, created by Amnart Klanprachar with Thaworn Boonyawan and published by AGM Müller. I'll also be using the Mah Jongg Oracle, created by Derek Walters and published by Thunder Bay Press. Today's cards are the Fool and the Pearl:

[Consciousness] photocopies experiences, and then the next time you encounter something similar, it shows you the copy and you think your earlier experience is happening again. But it's a copy, not the original. Reality has changed - it's always changing - and we're living in the photocopy.

—Cuong Lu

The Fool represents emptiness. Tsoknyi Rinpoche defines this as the "infinitely open space that allows for anything to appear, change, disappear, and reappear. The basic meaning of emptiness, in other words, is openness, or potential." This state is empty of opinions, rigid judgments based on previous experiences, preferences and prejudices. It simply sees what is as well as the multitude of possibilities that are available. There is a Chinese saying "a pearl in one's palm" that is very similar in meaning to the English phrase "the apple of one's eye." Both refer to something honored, something precious and loved. Such is the ability to see the world with this Fool's eyes.