Meditation for January 2nd, 2016
The Tree of Life
There are a lot of similarities between the world’s religions and myths. The tree of life is mentioned in almost all of them. This idea of a tree that branches out in the heavens and spreads its roots in the underworld permeates Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Baha’i, Ancient Egypt, Assyrian, Persian, Chinese, and even the Mormons.
We live in the trunk. Below us is the root system where our myths fester and nurture. Above us spread across the universe is it’s branches. The branches spread farther than we can imagine.
In the heavens is where our divine will lives. It is where we try and seek purpose out of the vastness of life.
Below the highest branches lives wisdom. This is what we know and our thirst for more knowledge.
In the lowest branches is understanding. This is understanding how wisdom and divine will connects us all.
Where the trunk splits up into the branches is our known knowledge. This is our gifts that we were born with. Talent.
Below that is the oldest part of the trunk. This is where kindness, severity, beauty, victory, and splendor live. This is where we are.
Below that is the trunk and that is the foundation. This is where you place your feet. This is what some call the force, or the God in everything.
Under the earth where the roots branch out is where the kingship is. This is our original mother and father. This is the vessel that carried us. This is how we become nourished and watered.
The tree is diseased. Right in the trunk. Where we are. The kindness, severity, beauty, victory, and splendor are sick. The bark is cracking and falling off.
This threatens the branches above us. This is our purpose in life. We are losing that because our kindness, severity, beauty, victory, and splendor is sick. We thought forgoing kindness, severity, beauty, victory, and splendor would help us find purpose, but it made it impossible.
The roots are drying up in the dying soil, and our kingship and foundation are now critical.
We are killing our own Tree of Life.
With the end of the Tree of Life is the end of us. We put our selfish needs for unimportant ego and self-centeredness over the very nourishment our Tree gives us. We allowed disease and famine to eat our very Universe.