164. Beyond I
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The primordial blunder was the discovery of self.
The first man and woman in the Garden of Eden ate of the Tree of Knowledge and realized that they exist. Ever since then, that self-consciousness has been the root of every disaster.
Every “I” and “me,” every sense of being is a denial of the Oneness of the Creator and the creation. It is a statement that there is something else, namely me, and that me is autonomous from all else.
The goal of humankind is to reach beyond the state of Adam and Eve in the Garden—to a state where any sense of ego is meaningless. A place called Eden, which is beyond the Garden, the place of Essential Being from where all delights flow . . . “And a river went out from Eden to water the Garden.”
And now you know why they ate of the fruit to begin with.
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The River is Representative of our Father and sustainer. Tremendous insight!
Thanks.
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Perhaps it was because the Garden needs to be watered ,and G-d chose Men to do the task,and,perhaps, if Men had not eaten the Fruit,he would not have known how to accomplish the task.
Perhaps the eating of the Fruit of the Tree was an "necessary evil"to us human beings in order to learn a lesson that otherwise could not had been learnt and the job would not had been accomplished.
Or would it?
Perhaps Men had to learn how to "consciently""relate" to evil to,afterwards, shun it ,and not just let it exist as a blind spot in human lives...
If Evil was there in the Garden,it had to be known...
Perhaps...
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But only with the Self you can achieve the beyond I, i suppose!
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this is what i dont understand. if it is this internal infinity that we are trying to achieve because of our fall from grace in the beginning. doesnt G-d see all? did he not know what our outcome would be? so being eternally punished for following our free choice is our path? how many centuries does this have to take place? how many generation? how many civilizations? are we merely like the dinosaurs who will eventually eat each other, survival of the fittest than die from meteors? is our goal to be never ending in search of truth until paralysis of the body? in meditation and prayer it is said that we are as close to G-d as we will ever be. are we to live this way through out ones lifetime on the planet and ignore what goes on around us in our everyday lives? so many questions, so little time! is this what the jewish faith is generated from, constant prayer and everything that is eaten, touched or said in relation to Him? it is his planet and he knows it, we know it. what else is ther
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My question is - what about man's being in partnership with G-d and having the responsibility to repair this world/Tikun Olam in order to purify the world.
Doing Tikun Olam clearly clearly requires an activist personality, not simply a nullified stat of being.
Nullification is good at times but there are many other times when ego strength is called for to improve the world.
Respectfully, I find your emphasis on nullification and the desirability to be in a state of nothingness to be over-stated.
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for your share
you are a blessing to the World, for yes... everything has it's purpose and like everyone... Eve had a lesson to learn and learnt through suffering from her action that affected not only herself but all who came after her... except... they also had a choice... to learn... from her mistake!
i wonder since then... how many People checked with their Father first if they were challenged or unsure or easily persauded to deviate from the master plan....
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(Adam, and Eve), (the garden, and the fruit,) (the snake, and the tree,) and Eden is a sexual metaphor. The first eating of the forbidden fruit is Eve's commiting of adultery with a tree that was not Adam's. It was Eden's tree.
God had commanded her not to do so. She did not know any better so she ate, as it was the tree of knowledge.
Eve suffered from the curse, "Knowledge of both good and evil."
Perhaps, read Ecclesiates, and the description of the pain of knowledge.
Eve was punished so that she would learn sin is the cause of death. This is that she could choose to repair the world for what she had done wrong. She died because she did not succeed in repairing the world. This is that she chose to do wrong even after she knew, as Eve died.
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And now you know why they ate of the fruit to begin with.
Actually, I still don't know why-can you fill me in??
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Dear Rabbi,
It would be nice if I could talk of us. I take an Orthodox Jewish standpoint so far as I am capable of. Yet, merely to show respect for you as a Jew, I separate myself from you, as I have not been through a Orthodox conversion ceremony. This is not a hint that I consider one of us is more wicked or more righteous than the other.
I agree that the denial of the collective singular through the assertion of separateness associated with the individualism associated with "I" might be misunderstood as a denial that godliness that exists within you. However, as I would expect that you are aware, separateness within the collective singular came into being on the second day of creation. This separateness from which freewill, autonomy, is derived enables me to speak of myself as an "I," and thereby affords the chance of me not inflicting upon you an error of my speech. Thus, I am affording you freewill, which is the chance to not only be superior to me, but also to blunder.
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