#Resource --- Card: Osho --- # Page of Fire: Playfulness --- source: ClickUp — Cards for life status: Open tags: tarot Tarot: Osho My cards/Osho cards: Page of Wands url: https://app.clickup.com/t/862k062t4 --- Play is something in which a goal is not at all involved. The very being together is beautiful—for the sheer joy of it! In a better world, with more understanding, games will disappear; there will only be play. ## PLAYFULNESS There cannot be any map to the land of playfulness. All maps lead to seriousness. Playfulness is when all maps have been burned. There is no way to playfulness, because playfulness is not a goal and cannot be a goal. When you forget about goals, when you are not going anywhere, when the very idea of going is dropped, then here-now playfulness starts growing in you, happening in you. Playfulness is not then and there; it is here, now. So how can there be a road map? You are not to go anywhere, you are just to be. Seriousness is goal-oriented. And when a serious person starts playing, he even transforms the quality of the play—it becomes a game; it is no longer play. That is the difference between a game and play. When play becomes serious, it becomes a game. People go to see wrestling, people go to see bullfights or American football—ugly, violent, inhuman. The people who are going to see these things are immature, and a little perverted too. The spectators are as ungrown-up as the gladiators. And both are in some way catharting; in the name of the game they are throwing their rubbish, they are simply vomiting their violence. This is a very violent, violent world. That's why love cannot exist here. When human beings really become human beings, things like bullfighting and wrestling will be unheard of, they will become part of history.