Do you ever see wild animals?
None of us are as good as we like to think. We possess animalistic drives for sex and power. We have a cruel and aggressive side that can do great harm to others, and we tend to deny our flaws and weaknesses. But what we deny does not disappear, it sinks into the unconscious and congregates in what Carl Jung called the shadow.
Share five things you’re good at.
I don’t have any categories of good or bad things.
All things are good things which I have.Good things which are not opposites of bad things.Thats it.
GOD had a garden, and he needed a gardener, so he created Adam. Adam was bored. He was doing the job, but it was no fun. God saw that he needed entertainment, and so he created the animals to entertain him. All Adam could think of to do with the animals was to give them names.
Then God said, “Well, here goes.” So he put Adam to sleep and pulled Eve out of his rib-, she was “the cutletsized consort.” Then the trouble started and we were in the game.
Male and female, life and death, good and evil: problems of opposites.
The trouble that began was the discovery of duality. That was the Fall. There was no real recognition of duality before this. How did duality take place in this garden? There were two trees that were forbidden trees. “You can eat the fruit of any tree in the place but not of this or of that one.” Tree number one was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of duality. Tree num- ber two was the tree of the knowledge of eternal life.
The serpent-who represents lunar consciousness and life in the field of time, where there are pairs of opposites-saw Eve and thought she must be bored, as most wives are when their husbands are working all the time. When that happens, there’s always a friend that appears, and this one was a little serpent.
The serpent said: “Look there’s an interesting thing about this tree. Don’t mind that old buzzard-have a taste and you will really know something.” Well, she had a taste, and when Adam came along, she said, “Look, this is okay.”
So, he had a taste, and then God, who walked in the cool of the evening in the Garden, saw the pair of them wearing fig leaves, and he said, “What’s this? You’ve got leaves on.”
The female activates the male; then he is the action, and she has to take the results.
They told God what happened, and that ran the usual way: the man blamed the woman, and the woman blamed the snake. God then cursed a lot of them in increasing degrees. The man got it fairly easy: all he had to do was to work and sweat. The woman had to bring forth children in pain, and the serpent had to crawl on his belly for the rest of his life. God kicked them out of the Garden and put at the gate two cheru- bim, door guardians, with a flaming sword between them. And that’s the explanation of why we’re out here in the cold and not in the Garden.
Christianity and Judaism are religions of exile: Man was thrown out of the Garden.
It seems impossible today, but people actually believed all that until as recently as half a century or so ago: clergymen, philosophers, government officers and all. Today we know and know right well-that there never was anything of the kind: no Garden of Eden anywhere on this earth, no time when the serpent could talk, no prehistoric “Fall,” no exclusion from the Garden, no universal Flood, no Noah’s Ark. The entire history on which our leading Occidental religions have been founded is an anthology of fictions. But these fictions of a type that have had-curiously enough-a universal vogue as the founding legends of other religions, too. Their counterparts have turned up everywhere and yet, there never was such a garden, serpent, tree, or deluge.
The serpent was the wise one in the Garden. Adam and Eve got thrown into the field of time.
“…in the beginning this universe was but the Self in the form of a man. He looked around and saw nothing but himself….
“He was just as large as a man and a woman embracing. This Self then divided himself in two parts; and with that, there was a master and mistress. -Therefore this body, by itself, as the sage Yajnavalkya declares, is like half of a split pea. And that is why, indeed, this space is filled by a woman.-He united with her, and from that mankind arose….
“She became a cow, he was a bull and united with her; and from that cattle arose. She became a mare, he a stallion; she an ass, he a donkey and united with her; and from that solid-hoofed animals arose. She became a goat, he a buck; she became a sheep, he a ram and united with her; and from that goats and sheep arose. -Thus he poured forth all pairing things, down to the ants.” -Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
What is one thing you would change about yourself?
Every real hero never tries to correct the world or nature.They always see the world as it is.World is all with its brutality,cruelty,illness,losses, a golden lotus world.
For God all things are good and right.
But man categorizes duality.
You can’t say there shouldn’t be poisonous serpent đ.
But in the field of action,you see a poisonous serpent about to bite someone’s body.you kill it.that is not saying no to serpent.that saying no to that situation.
We just have to look in those dimensions.
because no one can cure the world.The world is sinfull.
Jesus said -He who drinks from my mouth will become as I am,and I should be he.
Means:Lord jesus the way he sees the world the way he lives the life the way he affirms all pain,you should also do that the same way.
then water (materialistic things )will become wine(spiritual things) .and you will definitely transcend the duality.When Jesus says, “He who drinks from my mouth will become as I am and I shall be he,” he’s talking from the point of view of that being of beings, which we call the Christ, who is the being of all of us. Anyone who lives in relation to that is Christ. Anyone who brings into his life the message of the Word is equivalent to Jesus, that’s the sense of that.
We can’t cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
As buddha said _All life is sarrowfull.you have to participate joyfully in sarrow full life.
The Bodhisattva voluntarily comes back into the world knowing that it’s a mess.
He does not come back “only if it’s sweet for me” The Buddhistva participate joyfully in the sorrow of the world.
I want to see the world through the eyes of Jesus and Buddha.
What are your feelings about eating meat?
Bears skulls were eating their own flesh.(that image of what life is).
Human burial and worship of cave bears.
In burial, people kept all the favourite things with the dead body just Because of belief in life after life.So the animal who has been killed is still there.We have to take care of revenge , malice and so forth.
Now the typical system of belief among hunting people who are killing, eating animals all the time and do not feel as we do that the animal is a lower form of life.The animal is an equivalent form of in another aspect is revered and respected yet killed by hunting people.
The basic Mythic of hunting culture is__the animal is a willing sacrifice that comes willingly to be killed.You can find this all over the place.eg In Japan ,there is a ceremony played by people who worship bears. They believe that bears are their god .and they come to meet them in animal form,but they could not return to the back.So ,the only way to return is being killed.
Mystery of nature:Life lives by killing.no other way,and it is a one life in two manifestations that is living this way by killing and eating.
Later this psychology was changed in the Neolithic period,when people discovered planting and harvesting.
The nature of life itself has to be realized in the acts of life. In the hunting cultures, when a sacrifice is made, it is, as it were, a gift or a bribe to the deity that is being invited to do something for us or to give us something. But when a figure is sacrificed in the planting cultures, that figure itself is the god. The person who dies is buried and becomes the food. Christ is crucified, and from his body the food of the spirit comes. The Christ story involves a sublimation of what originally was a very solid vegetal image. Jesus is on Holy Rood, the tree, and he is himself the fruit of the tree. Jesus is the fruit of eternal life, which was on the second forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden. When man ate the fruit of the first tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he was expelled from the Garden. The Garden is the place of unity, of nonduality of male and female, good and evil, God and human beings. You eat the duality, and you are on the way out. The tree of coming back to the Garden is the tree of immortal life, where you know that I and the Father are one.
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.”
