I find it very interesting that the Buddha is said to have achieved his revelations while sitting under a tree. I knew there was always something about trees! So many other beliefs have the element of the tree in them as well. Trees of knowledge. Trees speak.
Friend, remember my coin analogy? I just thought of something.....
In the Bible it says there was TWO trees in the Garden of Eden. One was the Tree of Knowledge, the other was the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from the Tree of Life, but forbidden to take fruit from the other. Forgive me if you are not much for biblical analogies.....
Take a coin and set it on the table. It is all part of what "God" is, but is it only the knowledge of good and evil part. The knowledge alone isn't everything. We have to set that knowledge into motion. To put this knowledge into motion is the ability to "create" life just like "God". Now take that coin, pick it up, and spin it. THERE it is! The Tree of Life! Spinning perfectly, everything in balance as it should be. That is what we must all search for. That is what "God" is. The perfect balance of good and evil working in creative animate motion as ONE. "God" is not simply the knowledge of good and evil, but "God" is the power to give things life. Life or Spirit is "animate". When the coin is spinning it is also "animate" in a way. When the male and female come together in perfect balance, we bring that "animation" into Being. Putting the two in motion to create life. All things that exist have this "animate" force. Therefore all things have Spirit. Not such a strange coincidence then that all the planets, stars, galaxies, and even the Universe itself is rotational including destructive forces of nature such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Everything seems to have this rotational force. There is a positive and negative to them. However, even as all things rotate, they all eventually slow down and lose momentum. Just like the coin does. And then what? Everything that has "life" or "animation" has a lifespan it would seem. It seems that eventually "something" comes along and throws off that balance. I would be afraid to think of what would happen if all the stars and galaxies and the Universe itself slowed down. What happens to a star when it "dies" or has completed it's "lifespan"? Interesting......Everything spinning in perfect balance, but will it ever slow down? I wonder.....
Gaaawd!!... I think even my head is spinning!
You probably already knew all this as wise as you are. But I hope my analogy makes sense to you. I don't mean to analyze the bible so much. I see both truths and lies, or positive and negative in ALL things and ALL beliefs, including my own, but they are there for a reason. They serve a purpose. You can't have one without the other. Is there even such thing as ALL Truth? I don't know. Do we not NEED the other part to make that balance? If it were not for both the truth and the lies, mankind would stop fighting in circles like dogs. Could man ever ALL agree on ONE thing? Does not seem likely. Do you agree or disagree with any of this?....Ha! Ha!, there is the balance right there! Agree or disagree. Perhaps for us to simply agree to disagree, is where the two become as ONE and we find that power to do great things. Thank you. I'm very sorry for the lengthy post.
Friend, remember my coin analogy? I just thought of something.....
In the Bible it says there was TWO trees in the Garden of Eden. One was the Tree of Knowledge, the other was the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from the Tree of Life, but forbidden to take fruit from the other. Forgive me if you are not much for biblical analogies.....
Take a coin and set it on the table. It is all part of what "God" is, but is it only the knowledge of good and evil part. The knowledge alone isn't everything. We have to set that knowledge into motion. To put this knowledge into motion is the ability to "create" life just like "God". Now take that coin, pick it up, and spin it. THERE it is! The Tree of Life! Spinning perfectly, everything in balance as it should be. That is what we must all search for. That is what "God" is. The perfect balance of good and evil working in creative animate motion as ONE. "God" is not simply the knowledge of good and evil, but "God" is the power to give things life. Life or Spirit is "animate". When the coin is spinning it is also "animate" in a way. When the male and female come together in perfect balance, we bring that "animation" into Being. Putting the two in motion to create life. All things that exist have this "animate" force. Therefore all things have Spirit. Not such a strange coincidence then that all the planets, stars, galaxies, and even the Universe itself is rotational including destructive forces of nature such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Everything seems to have this rotational force. There is a positive and negative to them. However, even as all things rotate, they all eventually slow down and lose momentum. Just like the coin does. And then what? Everything that has "life" or "animation" has a lifespan it would seem. It seems that eventually "something" comes along and throws off that balance. I would be afraid to think of what would happen if all the stars and galaxies and the Universe itself slowed down. What happens to a star when it "dies" or has completed it's "lifespan"? Interesting......Everything spinning in perfect balance, but will it ever slow down? I wonder.....
Gaaawd!!... I think even my head is spinning!
You probably already knew all this as wise as you are. But I hope my analogy makes sense to you. I don't mean to analyze the bible so much. I see both truths and lies, or positive and negative in ALL things and ALL beliefs, including my own, but they are there for a reason. They serve a purpose. You can't have one without the other. Is there even such thing as ALL Truth? I don't know. Do we not NEED the other part to make that balance? If it were not for both the truth and the lies, mankind would stop fighting in circles like dogs. Could man ever ALL agree on ONE thing? Does not seem likely. Do you agree or disagree with any of this?....Ha! Ha!, there is the balance right there! Agree or disagree. Perhaps for us to simply agree to disagree, is where the two become as ONE and we find that power to do great things. Thank you. I'm very sorry for the lengthy post.