The Garden Of No Morals

The middle way is to know both sides, and therefore have full knowledge, free of ignorance. Morals are knowing right from wrong, good from bad, depending on our level of understanding.

If we do not know what is good and what is evil, then we have no morals; even though we may appear to have morals, they are based on our personal likes and dislikes. Confused? It’s meant to confuse.

Why would anyone say, “Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”?
This would mean that we have no morals at all. Why create beings without morals? This isn’t a good place to start, is it?

Why the threat of, “… or you shall surely die”? That’s a very strange edict laid down thousands of years ago, to which people still cling. Why? Because it is dressed up in regalia. Take the uniforms away, and all that’s left are polished cliches. In the moment now, we have to search for the words to express an actual experience, rather than repeating from memory.

This piece of scripture sends a mixed message deliberately, so that we will not realise that we have always been free to know what we are; pure consciousness, pure awareness that is able to see clearly.

Knowing right from wrong arises within clear seeing,
and not from blindly obeying even a Buddha.

When we test the truth of morality for ourselves,
we know what the truth is.

Remember, Adam wasn’t an enlightened being. We have to work that out for ourselves. The problem is that, initially, we are innocents = pure consciousness, but innocence can become gullible instead of remaining guileless, without deception.