Re: Tomi - A Challenge

"If one chooses the "Tree of Life" by living "Gods Law" love, would that not dissolve the chaos created by mankind in your mind?"

There are basically two paths that reach to the same place. One is for those that are not bothered with being alone... they like freedom, enjoy darkness instead of light... are more attracted to Science and the workings of the intellect... and have difficulty in surrendering to another, meditation is the way for these people. The journey will be like going to the desert. The desert has its own beauty... it has a silence that a marketplace never allows. Buddha has developed a method of meditation called vipassana, it is watching the movement of the breath in the body... focusing on the movement of the body is a way of indirectly slowing down and stopping the thought process without directly confronting thoughts.

The other type person enjoys people, music, dancing, singing, being creative, community and relationships... being with friends, eating and drinking, are easier to let-go and fall in love. Their way is the path of love. It is an easier road to travel... there are also more distractions to get detoured by also.
For example the Sufi follows the path of love... he has used a method of meditation that involves dancing... it is called whirling... when one totally becomes the dance... ego is dissolved, the dancer dissolves and only the dance remains.

It is my understanding that seeking enlightenment is searching for something that one already has. It is already the treasure that is buried within oneself.

The child comes into the world as Adam. He functions from out of a state of absolute innocence. He is Adam in the garden. This is the state of enlightenment, and he is blissfully ignorant of it.

There is really no choice in the matter, whether he wants it or not, he is given the fruit from the tree of knowledge as he moves more and more into society and into worldly affairs. The more he becomes knowledgeable, the more the treasure is covered over. And the more it appears that he is losing his innocence... of his being kicked out of the garden. Hence, the accumulation of knowledge is really a curse. But most living in the world consider it to be necessary and valuable thing to have. It is in fact the very thing that prevents one from living authentically. It prevents one from choosing the tree of life. It is the necessary evil. One needs to enter into it, so that one can find his way out of it.

Meditation is a method for finding one's way out of it.
One comes to a point where they have had enough of eating from the tree of knowledge.
Misery is such that one can either choose to end one's life or to drop the way one has chosen to live it. One needs to know that there is this third alternative.
Meditation is a process by which one can unburden himself of this accumulated knowledge. O is correct in saying it is a process of unlearning.

When one has unburdened himself from accumulated knowledge, the treasure is no more buried. The innocence that was thought to be lost is again back. One is capable of functioning again from out of this. With one major difference. A child is blissfully ignorant. An individual that unburdens himself is now blissfully conscious.

There is then no need to choose the tree of life. Life is the result from being choicelessly aware.

To choose the tree of life, this sounds like a good idea. Except, if it is a choosing to avoid meditation, if one is choosing out of one's unconscious state, then it is bound to be wrong. Whatsoever one chooses will only lead to more unconsciousness.