grimlogic
16-08-2009, 12:06 AM
A beautiful and ancient legend that almost everyone has heard before is the sory of Adam and Eve. It is one of my favorite stories because it explains with symbolism what I will try to explain with words. It is one of the greatest teachings ever, but I believe that most people misunderstand it. The story is about you and me. It's about us. It's about all of humanity becuase, as you know, humanity is only one living being: man, woman--we are only one. In this story, we call ourselves Adam and Eve, and we are the original humans. The story begins when we were innocent, before we closed our spiritual eyes, which means thousands of years ago. We used to live in Paradise, in the Garden of Eden, which was heaven on earth. Heaven exists when our spiritual eyes are open. It is a place of peace and joy, freedom and eternal love.We loved and respected one another, and we lived in perfect harmony with all of creation. Our realtionship with our Creator, was a perfect communion of love, which means that we communed with the Creator all of the time, and the Creator communed with us. It was inconceivable to be afraid of the Creator, the one who created us. Life was beautiful in Paradise. The original humans saw everything through the eyes of truth, the way it is, and we loved it. That is the way we used to be, and it was effortless.
Well, the legend says that in the middle of Paradise stood two trees. One was the Tree of Life, which gave life to everything in existence, and the other was the Tree of Death, better know as the Tree of Knowledge. The Tree of Knowledge was a beautiful tree with juicy fruit. Very tempting. And the Creator told us, "Don't go near the Tree of Knowledge. If you eat the fruit of that tree, you may die." Of course, no problem. But by nature we love to exlpore, and surley we went to pay a visit to the tree. If you rememeber the story, you can already guess who lived in that tree.The Tree of Knowledge was the home of a big snake full of posion.The story says that the snake who lived in the Tree of Knowledge was a fallen angel who used to be the most beautiful one. As you know, and angel is a messenger who delivers the Creator's message---a message of truth and love. But for who knows what reason, that fallen angel no longer delivered the truth, which means he delivered the wrong message. The fallen angel's message was fear, instead of love; it was a lie, instead of truth. In fact, the story describes the fallen angel as the Prince of Lies, which means that he was an eternal liar. Every word coming out of his mouth was a lie.
We went to thtat tree, and we had the most incredible conversation with the Prince of Lies. We were innocent. We didn't know. We trusted everyone. And there was the Prince of Lies, the first storyteller, a very smart guy. Now the story gets a little more interesting because that snake by itself had a whole story of its own. The fallen angel talked and talked and talked and we listened and listened and listened. As you know, when we are childern and our grandparents tell us stories, we are eager to hear everything they tell us. We learn, and it's very seductive; we want to know more. But this was the Prince of Lies talking. No doubt about it---he was lying, and we were seduced by the lies. We believed the fallen angel's story, and that was our big mistake. That is what it means to eat the fruit of The Tree of Knowledge. We believed the lies; we put our faith in them. When we bit into the apple, we ate the lies that came with knowledge. What happens when we eat a lie? We believe it, and boom! Now that lie lives in us. This is easy to understand. The mind is very fertile ground for concepts, ideas, and opinions. If someone tells us a lie and we believe it, that lie takes root in our mind. There it can grow big and strong, just like a tree.Well, the lies went into our mind, and reproduced a whole Tree of Knowledge inside our head, which is everything that we know. But what is it that we know? Mostly lies.
Now each of us has our own Tree of Knowledge which is our personal belief system. The Tree of Knowledge is the structure of everything we believe. Every concept, every opinion, forms a little branch of that tree, until we end up with the whole Tree of Knowledge. As soon as that Tree is alive our mind, we hear the fallen angel talking very loudly. The same fallen angel, the Prince of Lies, lives in our mind. A Parasite was living in the fruit; we ate the fruit, and the Parasite went inside us. Now the Parasite is living our life. The storyteller, the Parasite, is born inside our head, and it survives inside our head because we feed it with our faith.The story of Adam and Eve explains how humanity fell from the dream of heaveninto the dream of hell; it tells us how we became the way we are right now. The story usally says that we took just one bite of the apple, but this is not true. I think we ate all of the fruit of that tree, and we became sick from being so full of lies and emotional posion. With the Tree of Knowledge in our head, we could only perceive knowledge, we could only perceive lies. We nolonger lived in heaven because lies have no place in heaven.
From this point, it is easy to understand what is meant by original sin. The original sin is not sex. No, that is another lie. The original sin is to believe the lies that come from the snake in the tree, the fallen angel. The meaing of the word sin is "to go against." Everything that we say, everything that we do against ourselves is a sin. To sin is not about blame or moral condemnation. To sin is to believe in lies, and to use those lies against ourselves. From that first sin, that origianl lie, all of our other sins are born. How many lies do you hear in your head? Who is judging, who is talking, who is the one with all the opinions? If you don't love, it's because that voice doesn't let you love. If you don't enjoy your life, it's because that voice doesn't let you enjoy it. And not only that---the liar in our head has the need to express all those lies, to tell its story.The voice is talking and talking and talking, and we are listening and listening and believing every word. The voice never stops judging. It judges whatever we do, whatever we don't do, whatever we feel, whatever we don't feel, whatever everybody else does. It is constantly gossiping in our head, and what comes out of that voice? Lies, mostly lies.
The voice in our head doesn't belong to us. When we are born, we don't have that voice. The voice in our head comes after we learn--first the language, then different points of view, then all the judgements and lies. Even when we first learn to speak, we speak only truth. But little by little, the whole Tree of Knowledge is programmed into our head, and the big liar eventually takes over the dream of our life. You see in the moment when we separated from the Creator, we started to search for the Creator. For the first time, we started to search for justice, for beauty, for truth. The search began thousands of years ago, and humans are still searching for the paradise we lost. We are searching for the way we used to be before we believed in lies: authentic, truthful, loving, joyful. The truth is we are searching for our Self.
Well, the legend says that in the middle of Paradise stood two trees. One was the Tree of Life, which gave life to everything in existence, and the other was the Tree of Death, better know as the Tree of Knowledge. The Tree of Knowledge was a beautiful tree with juicy fruit. Very tempting. And the Creator told us, "Don't go near the Tree of Knowledge. If you eat the fruit of that tree, you may die." Of course, no problem. But by nature we love to exlpore, and surley we went to pay a visit to the tree. If you rememeber the story, you can already guess who lived in that tree.The Tree of Knowledge was the home of a big snake full of posion.The story says that the snake who lived in the Tree of Knowledge was a fallen angel who used to be the most beautiful one. As you know, and angel is a messenger who delivers the Creator's message---a message of truth and love. But for who knows what reason, that fallen angel no longer delivered the truth, which means he delivered the wrong message. The fallen angel's message was fear, instead of love; it was a lie, instead of truth. In fact, the story describes the fallen angel as the Prince of Lies, which means that he was an eternal liar. Every word coming out of his mouth was a lie.
We went to thtat tree, and we had the most incredible conversation with the Prince of Lies. We were innocent. We didn't know. We trusted everyone. And there was the Prince of Lies, the first storyteller, a very smart guy. Now the story gets a little more interesting because that snake by itself had a whole story of its own. The fallen angel talked and talked and talked and we listened and listened and listened. As you know, when we are childern and our grandparents tell us stories, we are eager to hear everything they tell us. We learn, and it's very seductive; we want to know more. But this was the Prince of Lies talking. No doubt about it---he was lying, and we were seduced by the lies. We believed the fallen angel's story, and that was our big mistake. That is what it means to eat the fruit of The Tree of Knowledge. We believed the lies; we put our faith in them. When we bit into the apple, we ate the lies that came with knowledge. What happens when we eat a lie? We believe it, and boom! Now that lie lives in us. This is easy to understand. The mind is very fertile ground for concepts, ideas, and opinions. If someone tells us a lie and we believe it, that lie takes root in our mind. There it can grow big and strong, just like a tree.Well, the lies went into our mind, and reproduced a whole Tree of Knowledge inside our head, which is everything that we know. But what is it that we know? Mostly lies.
Now each of us has our own Tree of Knowledge which is our personal belief system. The Tree of Knowledge is the structure of everything we believe. Every concept, every opinion, forms a little branch of that tree, until we end up with the whole Tree of Knowledge. As soon as that Tree is alive our mind, we hear the fallen angel talking very loudly. The same fallen angel, the Prince of Lies, lives in our mind. A Parasite was living in the fruit; we ate the fruit, and the Parasite went inside us. Now the Parasite is living our life. The storyteller, the Parasite, is born inside our head, and it survives inside our head because we feed it with our faith.The story of Adam and Eve explains how humanity fell from the dream of heaveninto the dream of hell; it tells us how we became the way we are right now. The story usally says that we took just one bite of the apple, but this is not true. I think we ate all of the fruit of that tree, and we became sick from being so full of lies and emotional posion. With the Tree of Knowledge in our head, we could only perceive knowledge, we could only perceive lies. We nolonger lived in heaven because lies have no place in heaven.
From this point, it is easy to understand what is meant by original sin. The original sin is not sex. No, that is another lie. The original sin is to believe the lies that come from the snake in the tree, the fallen angel. The meaing of the word sin is "to go against." Everything that we say, everything that we do against ourselves is a sin. To sin is not about blame or moral condemnation. To sin is to believe in lies, and to use those lies against ourselves. From that first sin, that origianl lie, all of our other sins are born. How many lies do you hear in your head? Who is judging, who is talking, who is the one with all the opinions? If you don't love, it's because that voice doesn't let you love. If you don't enjoy your life, it's because that voice doesn't let you enjoy it. And not only that---the liar in our head has the need to express all those lies, to tell its story.The voice is talking and talking and talking, and we are listening and listening and believing every word. The voice never stops judging. It judges whatever we do, whatever we don't do, whatever we feel, whatever we don't feel, whatever everybody else does. It is constantly gossiping in our head, and what comes out of that voice? Lies, mostly lies.
The voice in our head doesn't belong to us. When we are born, we don't have that voice. The voice in our head comes after we learn--first the language, then different points of view, then all the judgements and lies. Even when we first learn to speak, we speak only truth. But little by little, the whole Tree of Knowledge is programmed into our head, and the big liar eventually takes over the dream of our life. You see in the moment when we separated from the Creator, we started to search for the Creator. For the first time, we started to search for justice, for beauty, for truth. The search began thousands of years ago, and humans are still searching for the paradise we lost. We are searching for the way we used to be before we believed in lies: authentic, truthful, loving, joyful. The truth is we are searching for our Self.