A Small Rock

From the Neuzeit Tarot, the Seven of Swords; from Rory's Story Cubes, Plane:

You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

~Thomas Peterffy

A few lies make it easier to tell more; a few carefully hidden motives make it easier to cover up more. Without a doubt, we'll get away with some of our deceit. But that big eye at the top of this card is a reminder that someone will eventually get wise to what's going on and the truth will come out. Is being at the pinnacle of the mountain worth the fall we'll take from its cliff? Is our desperation really creating a solution or just a bigger problem? The Plane suggests seeing things from above, from a more expansive view. It parallels the words of Za Choeje Rinpoche:

You can just pull your mind out of the situation and let your mind be like a sky, looking at the situation above, not from underneath. It’s like you have a small rock in your hand, and you’re bringing it so close to your eyes that it feels like you are under a big, huge rock when actually, it is just a small rock. It’s just perspective. We tend to look at the situation from underneath and so close that we exaggerate the situation, and then we make that situation so big. Then we think, “This is what my life is; I am just crushed by this.” In reality, if you look at it from above, it’s not a big, big thing. It’s just a small rock.