To Romi on Oneness, judgement and separation

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Romi wrote:

 

....So, in my teensy tiny opinion, this judgement exists

only in Separation. That little thing that Amma tries

to knock out of us!

 

I'm not suggesting that one should simply Awaken to

avoid experiencing a fear of a big earthquake, because

geeze, if only we could! But to remember that

Amma has blessed us with an awareness of what is on

the other side of our sleep, and to perhaps find

comfort in that...

Dear Romi ~ I really appreciated every single thing you said in your writing

of judgement. I'm still learning ... to let go when I feel judged (which,

with my family, is frequent) ... to be aware of judgements I may have of others

so Devi can shine Her flashlight of awareness and help me let go. I don't

judge the path, but I do judge my toe for being stupid enough to stub itself.

Isn't that silly? This is kind of representative of the way I am not too kind

to myself. I am my worst judge. But I do believe in Oneness, and I do believe

that, within the Oneness, there is no opposition or judgement, or what

appears, when we are outside of the Oneness to be opposition or judgement,

within

the Oneness ... well, the boundaries blur and disappear and we see from a

larger perspective. (Wow, did I just tie my tongue in a knot with all of

that.)

 

What you write is so very important to remember, and so easy to forget, so I

thank you for your beautiful reminder. Also, growing up as a 60s hippie,

which then kind of blurred into New Age, I don't get the creepy feeling you do,

but I use the positive aspect of my Mind to discriminate, and I can pretty

well tell what sounds right and what sounds like bunk. I'm going to save what

you wrote. Thank you again. Blessings ~ Linda P.S. I am somewhat a longtime

student and teacher of the Tarot (I hope you aren't wincing). I have never

looked at this as a fortune telling device, but rather as a kind of spiritual

software where the images can serve as a mirror, a map, a path.

 

And so many people misunderstand the images. In a class I was giving once, I

had to leave all the other students to their own devices while I talked a

very distraught woman who had drawn the Death card (letting go, evolving,

changing, losing the ego, etc.) out of the idea that it meant literal death.

The

Judgement card, which is #22, is such a beautiful image.

 

An angel with yellow hair (that has some orange in it) is blowing a yellow

trumpet (yellow = Cosmic Consciousness, being Awake, etc.). The angel is Waking

Up a bunch of people, who are gray in color and rising out of gray coffins

which are floating in the water (Water also represents Cosmic Consciousness on

a human level; one dives deep below the surface ripples of reaction,

judgement, joy, all of it, and goes below to the Deep, Still Silence ~

Maharishi

Mahesh Yogi used the water metaphor a lot in talking about the process of

meditation.) Gray symbolizes the Union of Opposites, so these people are

already

Realized, but until the Angel Woke the Up, they were not aware of it. They all

have yellow hair and are raising their arms in celebration or prayer ... also

all ages. So the Judgement card really means the letting go of all

Judgement, one of those tricky oppositional things that lie hiding within the

imagery

of the Tarot ... or you could say, hiding in plain sight. Oneness hides in

plain sight too.