“Know Thyself”.
So here is the key, and here is a similarity in all the religions, the idea, that we should “know thyself,” an idea reflecting within all the religions.
But where should we start?
I guess the best place to start is from where we are, right now, at this moment. After all what is the use of getting into the car and driving to another path, in some distant land, like others do when they hear that a place is very spiritual, say like: Sonoma or the Grand Canyon, or even Hawaii.
No. This journey is going to be within us.
We will be working on understanding the dial of the radio and how we can turn it.
So let’s start by looking into the sacred texts for a parable.
A story in which, we will be able to find our reflection.
Let’s start in the beginning. And for the sake, that I was brought up in Christianity. Let’s start with the story of Adam and Eve.
This is a living story. That is why it has lasted so many years. Unlike other stories about aunt so and so and the time she did that, or this thing happened to her. These living stories actually help us to know ourselves.
Who am I?
This story of Adam and Eve I believe is a reflection of who we are, meaning what awareness we have now, and what awareness, did we once possess.
I propose that before we ate from the tree of knowledge, we were abiding in the garden of complete innocence, followed by the spiral out of that existence, as our individual identities developed.
We see this whole play acting in our life since our birth, as a reflection. From Babyhood to Adult, from having no problems to have many problems.
A reflection cast upon two mirrors reflecting endlessly.
The tree, I see as symbolizing our freedom, the “free will” that is given by the divine. Satan is the illusion that we fall into.
“Satan,” being the opposite of good, and therefore the opposite of God. This being said Satan is the canvas that our freewill plays out on. He is the world that we entered. And now again we will need to exercise our free will, to return to the divine.
Satan is the obstacle that we must surrender, and so clever is he, that we cling to him. He is the attachment.
The Garden of Eden
Many, many years ago there was a man and woman who live as one, with the divine. Neither had they cares nor disease. Wants and desires were never apparent because everything they could imagine was there.
When along came a mischievous snake, which found an opening part in the story. And after a brilliant audition, he entered into the garden to tempted, the woman. With a thought the snake planted the idea that she was missing something, and that being one with the divine was limiting her from being all, that she could be.
So the woman decided that she would eat of the forbidden fruit and get what she was missing.
Here I would like to explain, in plain terms, what I understand the word “sin” means.
The word sin is used to describe an act or thought that separates us from god. And since we have now just witnessed the first sin, we can start to see one thing that separates us from the Devine (our spirit).
Sin #1 Not being satisfied separates us from the divine.
Before we get back to the story I want to point out that in referring to Adam and Eve as a man and a woman I am in no way trying to causualize the story, or to make light of its’ sacredness. I am however trying to make a distinction here between “Wisdom” and “Knowledge” as I see it. I see wisdom as the overall theme, the lesson, and "knowledge," as the facts.
Many people are able to show that they are great, because they have knowledge. They can tell you how many, and who did it, what they said, or when that occurred, and we fall completely in awe of their brilliance. I think this is what Christ was referring to as building our houses on sand. Because this kind of knowledge does not bring us closer to the divine, which is a lasting thing. But instead is the knowledge that disappears with the ocean of time.
On with the story, now we find that the woman who now has committed the sin decides that the man should also join in. So she is able to convince him that he is also missing something that she has now found, so he joins her.
Now we see the two culprits which have been blessed with the forbidden knowledge. Or you can say that they have become aware of themselves as separate beings from the divine.
We can see our reflection here because we think that god is somewhere else. And that if we have faith we will some how reach him. Or if we do good things in life, God will let us into the pearly gates of heaven when we die.
But we can talk more about what heaven looks like later, and how you get there.
For now let’s say that Adam and Eve have now been given an ego and superego. With which they have obtained the ability to plan, act, and get the things they want with their ego, and the ability to remember how they did it and what things they liked with their superego.
They have now been given the foundations of “stress”, by becoming aware of time. Ego the future and Superego the past.
They actually start to loose the garden here, because the superego starts developing a personality, by compiling their past experiences into memories.
While at the same time the ego starts using the data to figure out how to get what the memories tell them they like.
Between these two oceans (ego and superego) some land appears as that of a personality. Upon the land some seeds in the form of ideas take root and grow. They have become something. Something that is now existing between the two oceans of time, (Future and the Past). They have left the present moment. (The Garden of Eden)
This is the source of all our problems, as an example, One says that he is worried about what will happen or how what just happened will affect what will happen in the future. Or you can say I lost my job today and so I am afraid of how I will live tomorrow. How will I pay my bills? What will others think of me?
Everything, outside of the present moment. After all what is not to say that you just inherited a kazillion dollars from a long lost aunt. And that a lawyer is right now stuck in traffic on the way to your house. And in ten minutes you are going to find out that you will never need to work again.
So where lays the reality? In the future? In the past? Or in the present moment?
It is also interesting to see here another reflection which we find in the bible that about the trinity. We find here a trinity of time, future, past and present.
So here is the key, and here is a similarity in all the religions, the idea, that we should “know thyself,” an idea reflecting within all the religions.
But where should we start?
I guess the best place to start is from where we are, right now, at this moment. After all what is the use of getting into the car and driving to another path, in some distant land, like others do when they hear that a place is very spiritual, say like: Sonoma or the Grand Canyon, or even Hawaii.
No. This journey is going to be within us.
We will be working on understanding the dial of the radio and how we can turn it.
So let’s start by looking into the sacred texts for a parable.
A story in which, we will be able to find our reflection.
Let’s start in the beginning. And for the sake, that I was brought up in Christianity. Let’s start with the story of Adam and Eve.
This is a living story. That is why it has lasted so many years. Unlike other stories about aunt so and so and the time she did that, or this thing happened to her. These living stories actually help us to know ourselves.
Who am I?
This story of Adam and Eve I believe is a reflection of who we are, meaning what awareness we have now, and what awareness, did we once possess.
I propose that before we ate from the tree of knowledge, we were abiding in the garden of complete innocence, followed by the spiral out of that existence, as our individual identities developed.
We see this whole play acting in our life since our birth, as a reflection. From Babyhood to Adult, from having no problems to have many problems.
A reflection cast upon two mirrors reflecting endlessly.
The tree, I see as symbolizing our freedom, the “free will” that is given by the divine. Satan is the illusion that we fall into.
“Satan,” being the opposite of good, and therefore the opposite of God. This being said Satan is the canvas that our freewill plays out on. He is the world that we entered. And now again we will need to exercise our free will, to return to the divine.
Satan is the obstacle that we must surrender, and so clever is he, that we cling to him. He is the attachment.
The Garden of Eden
Many, many years ago there was a man and woman who live as one, with the divine. Neither had they cares nor disease. Wants and desires were never apparent because everything they could imagine was there.
When along came a mischievous snake, which found an opening part in the story. And after a brilliant audition, he entered into the garden to tempted, the woman. With a thought the snake planted the idea that she was missing something, and that being one with the divine was limiting her from being all, that she could be.
So the woman decided that she would eat of the forbidden fruit and get what she was missing.
Here I would like to explain, in plain terms, what I understand the word “sin” means.
The word sin is used to describe an act or thought that separates us from god. And since we have now just witnessed the first sin, we can start to see one thing that separates us from the Devine (our spirit).
Sin #1 Not being satisfied separates us from the divine.
Before we get back to the story I want to point out that in referring to Adam and Eve as a man and a woman I am in no way trying to causualize the story, or to make light of its’ sacredness. I am however trying to make a distinction here between “Wisdom” and “Knowledge” as I see it. I see wisdom as the overall theme, the lesson, and "knowledge," as the facts.
Many people are able to show that they are great, because they have knowledge. They can tell you how many, and who did it, what they said, or when that occurred, and we fall completely in awe of their brilliance. I think this is what Christ was referring to as building our houses on sand. Because this kind of knowledge does not bring us closer to the divine, which is a lasting thing. But instead is the knowledge that disappears with the ocean of time.
On with the story, now we find that the woman who now has committed the sin decides that the man should also join in. So she is able to convince him that he is also missing something that she has now found, so he joins her.
Now we see the two culprits which have been blessed with the forbidden knowledge. Or you can say that they have become aware of themselves as separate beings from the divine.
We can see our reflection here because we think that god is somewhere else. And that if we have faith we will some how reach him. Or if we do good things in life, God will let us into the pearly gates of heaven when we die.
But we can talk more about what heaven looks like later, and how you get there.
For now let’s say that Adam and Eve have now been given an ego and superego. With which they have obtained the ability to plan, act, and get the things they want with their ego, and the ability to remember how they did it and what things they liked with their superego.
They have now been given the foundations of “stress”, by becoming aware of time. Ego the future and Superego the past.
They actually start to loose the garden here, because the superego starts developing a personality, by compiling their past experiences into memories.
While at the same time the ego starts using the data to figure out how to get what the memories tell them they like.
Between these two oceans (ego and superego) some land appears as that of a personality. Upon the land some seeds in the form of ideas take root and grow. They have become something. Something that is now existing between the two oceans of time, (Future and the Past). They have left the present moment. (The Garden of Eden)
This is the source of all our problems, as an example, One says that he is worried about what will happen or how what just happened will affect what will happen in the future. Or you can say I lost my job today and so I am afraid of how I will live tomorrow. How will I pay my bills? What will others think of me?
Everything, outside of the present moment. After all what is not to say that you just inherited a kazillion dollars from a long lost aunt. And that a lawyer is right now stuck in traffic on the way to your house. And in ten minutes you are going to find out that you will never need to work again.
So where lays the reality? In the future? In the past? Or in the present moment?
It is also interesting to see here another reflection which we find in the bible that about the trinity. We find here a trinity of time, future, past and present.
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