The Tragedy of Answered Prayers - At the Very Least, Disappointment, More Often an Unraveling

 "St. Theresa of Avila is quoted as saying, 'More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.'" - Quote provided in Google Search



As a Tarot reader I bear witness to this tragedy of answered prayers too often. A common saga is featured by the Eight of Cups, called the "Walking Away" card.  

The unhappy spouse has the courage to leave the marriage. The stressed out lawyer finds the financial resources to leave that career path. The struggling mother of two inherits money when her father dies. 

All had focused in a one-dimensional way on what they assumed was their source of pain. Then, the source was removed. But extreme pain remained.  At first they were disappointed. Then what was shaken loose was their whole belief system. They came to me for guidance on how to halt the unraveling. 

Part of the enlightenment is the acceptance that life is difficult. That's the game we get into at birth.  We are forced out of the cozy womb. From then on it's about learning to cope in the most effective ways. 

Notice in the Eight of Cups there is a mountain, right up ahead. In Korea, there is a saying "san neomeo san." That means that after you master the mountain, there is another ahead. Literally, the translation is: Mountain after mountain.

Another bit of enlightenment is from Zen Master Hye Mun Barry Briggs at the Cochise Zen Center, Bisbee, Arizona. In a weekly Sunday Meditation (available free in-person and on zoom) Briggs noted that when we stop chasing the whatevers abundance can unfold. 

That wisdom from Briggs reinforces the old spiritual axiom that we shouldn't ask for things in prayer. Instead we should open the channel for awareness. The New York Times confirms that the Tarot is a tool for awareness. 

Those with awareness about themselves and life and work usually are able to duck the tragedy of answered prayers. They don't view any difficulty one-dimensionally. 

A classic example of that is presented in a Leaders Magazine interview with the chair of law firm Paul, Weiss Brad Karp. He hammers that the client's problem has to be approached not as a stand-alone legal one. Instead there has to be a deep awareness of the business context. The buzzword for that is "holistic." 

Through the Tarot we strive to make the suffering whole in their perception of the human situation. It is Mountain after mountain.

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