The Garden of Eden Is Interesting

We have to know what is good and evil, right and wrong, beneficial and harmful. There can be no guessing. Our level of understanding dictates our morals; they shouldn’t be based on our likes and dislikes.

The Garden of Eden is interesting. God didn’t want man to know good and evil. Not have morals?

The ‘serpent’ is a metaphor for wisdom, and gave instruction. Good and evil is the difference between knowing and believing. Believing delays knowing, ergo belief is evil as belief is not knowing.

Thousands of years ago, humanity was divided by belief, and most fell for this. Why? It’s easier to become dependent on others’ views, than to take personal responsibility.

If we don’t know what goodness is,
how can we have morals?

Realising this can shock the mind into understanding that
we are both good and evil.

“Don’t wander, don’t wander, place mindfulness on guard;
Along the road of distraction, Mara lies in ambush.
Mara is this mind, clinging to like and dislike;
So look into the essence of this magic, free from dualistic fixation.
Realise that your mind is unfabricated primal purity.
There is no buddha elsewhere; look at your own face.
There is nothing else to search for; rest in your own place.
Non-meditation is spontaneous perfection, so capture the royal seat.”

– Tsoknyi Rinpoche 1^st