June 07, 2024 – A

The story of the Garden of Eden
is the metaphor of humanity. 

D.T. Suzuki said that enlightenment 
may be thought of "habitual intuition."

Intuition has been our guide from the beginning.

Now, think of God in the Garden of Eden story
as our intuition.

We are born with an intrinsic intuition 
that wants things one way,
but we want things a different way.
And we are engaged all our life 
in a struggle with our intuition
over how we are going to live.

The results of that struggle are apparent on all sides.

This is not a world we can live in,
but this is a world that is the outcome
of generations of human beings having their way
at the expense of their intuition's guidance 
and direction!

To have a word we can live it,
we have to sacrifice what we want
in the service of our intuition's desires for us.

We all know this is not going to happen--
certainly not in a corporate way.

A few of us will align ourselves 
with our intuition's will for us
in every generation,
but we will always be on the margins
of society/culture,
and won't have the kind of impact we need to have
on the powers leading the course
of life in the world,
to make things different than they are.

Say good-bye to any form of Eden,
and say hello to all aspects of the Wasteland.

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