I have heard for the first time about the forbidden fruit of the paradise as a child in the religion class in the church. I was maybe 7 or 8 yrs old and I remember that I was corrected by my teacher ( the nun ) because I have said that it was an apple and apparently it was a "fruit". Anyway later I have heard about it many times during my life but I did not really understand what it was all about. You know... I had an idea taken from the bible and based on what others were saying ( but I guess they based their "wisdom" on the bible as well ) that Adam and Eve have eaten a forbidden fruit despite the warning of the God and as a result of it we have been sentenced to suffering on Earth but I did not really comprehend it.
Now... this is the story from the bible. It is believed that this is a holy book and god inspired specially chosen messengers to write it and now so many people take for granted everything that is being written there. And I was one of them.
Anyway... I am not anymore. I try to question everything, cross reference it and see for myself whether something it true. Thus I don't believe in the story of Adam and Eve eating an "apple" or other kind of fruit. Well... actually I don't take it literally but yet I have come to a certain realization, which lies within the story of the forbidden fruit. The forbidden fruit was referred ( by the one who wrote this book ) to the mistake of humanity trying to "drink from the tree of knowledge" of the good and bad, good and evil etc. That means that instead of being whole, united and equal we have started to divide and separate things and we have started to polarize things. We have entered the field of polarities and we have got lost within it.
On Day 587 of the JTL = Journey To Life I wrote an article about the useless lessons from life and I can see now that it is related to this topic of today because it is talking indirectly about the consequences of "eating" this forbidden fruit. Yes... once we are within the field of polarities we believe that we are evolving and going forward. We believe that we are learning from painful experiences and this apparently makes us stronger. In reality we learn useless lessons which we don't really need to learn. We literally waste time on it and we get lost within it more and more.
The forbidden fruit is the knowledge of polarities and believing that this is real. We believe that the lessons are real and useful but in the end they are not. But we don't see it and we are stuck for eons of times learning and learning and learning but not advancing. We suffer and believe that it was necessary to learn but in the end we are not evolving at all. And this is the consequence of eating the forbidden fruit in the paradise.
What is the solution ?
The only way to go is to stop the mind right now. There are no half way solutions. There must be a radical cut and stopping participation in polarities without any compromise. Thus the mind and the ego must be stopped and the sooner the better.
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