I use tarot and oracle cards as tools for reflection and contemplation. Rather than divining the future, they are a way for me to look more deeply at the "now."
"The goal isn't to arrive, but to meander, to saunter, to make your life a holy wandering." ~ Rami Shapiro

Monday, July 14, 2025

Detonation

From the Middle Way Arcana, the Moon; from the Vertical Oracle, Chaos:



Our perceptions carry with them all the errors of our subjectivity.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhist psychology describes how our awareness is shaped and directed by an ocean of unconscious imprints. We first have a direct experience through our senses, followed by an immediate feeling tone – like, dislike or indifference. Mental and emotional reactions are triggered (conditioned by what’s already in our ‘ocean’) and are then trailed by interpretation and labeling. Based on these, we create a subjective story around the encounter and download our data to this ocean that Buddhists call ‘storehouse consciousness.’ With all of our individual imprints, it's no wonder people find it hard to perceive things in the same way. Chaos is what happens when those dusty imprints collide into situation that does not support them. Will we take the opportunity to detonate those outdated mental constructs and assumptions?

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