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The Garden- Parshat Bereisheet

10/27/2016

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“Bereisheet Bara Elohim Et Hashamayim v’Et Ha’aretz-
"In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth…”
 




​What Is My Purpose?

When you awaken from sleep, is it because you’ve decided to awaken?
Or, do you simply wake up when your body is finished sleeping?
In sleep, there’s no deciding.
 
Once you are awake, you are faced with the question:
What shall I do? What is my purpose?
 
Waking up itself solves nothing-
There was no problem to begin with.
But once awake, life becomes a problem.
 
The universe springs into being-
Does creation have a purpose?
 
But “purpose” is itself something that’s created!
“Purpose” is a thought; “purpose” is a thing.
There cannot be a purpose for creation until after creation.
 
Before, there is no problem.
The universe comes into being because:
Why not?
 
Sometimes, after many months, I clean my car.
My wife asks, “Why did you have to clean it now all of a sudden?”
But the only answer is: Why Not?
 
Before creation, there is no problem.
After, all the problems.
 
What is the solution to all the problems?
Go back to before the problems!
 
“Hinei Tov Me’od-
Behold it was very good!”
 
That is the Shabbat- the remembering that there were no problems before we got involved;
In fact, there are still no problems.
 
The “Before” never went anywhere, because it is not a thing.
It is always right here.
The Shabbat, the Garden- they were Here before Anything.
 
From within the Garden, there is no problem with moving back into problems.
From within Shabbat, there is no problem with moving back into time.
 
Seeing from within the Garden, even outside the Garden is really still inside the Garden-
For where can the Garden not be?
 
Seeing from outside the Garden, even inside the Garden is just more of the same:
 
“How can we manage to get back in?”
“Once we get in, how can we make sure that we stay there?”
 
But- The Garden is not “there.”
 
Thought springs into being from No-Thought; in No-Thought, there is no problem.
From No-Thought, why not think?
 
“Eitz Hada’at Tov v’Ra-
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad…”
 
Here we are amidst the trees of the Garden-
Why not take a bite of the good and the bad?
Of the This and the That?
Of the Before and the After?
 
But once you leave the Timeless, the Sword of Fire blocks your way back.
What is the Sword of Fire?
Nothing but thought!
 
You can't decide to awaken-
You can’t think your way back into the Garden-
The Garden never went anywhere.

But let thought cease, and you will see for yourself:
 
The “Purpose” is to come back to No-Purpose-
To the Place from which the Universe springs:
 
“Y’hi Or- Let there be light!”
 
To return to No-Purpose requires living with Great Purpose-
​The Purpose of Being Present.
 
From There (which is always Here)
We can create something beautiful-
You, Me, and Others.
 
The world is waiting!
Do you not believe me?
 
Don’t worry- it’s Friday afternoon!

Click Here for more on Bereisheet- "The Pool"

3 Comments
lorie girani
10/27/2016 07:28:49 pm

I like this, thanks!

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Monica Pinsel
10/27/2016 08:32:02 pm

First read through, I found it to be beautiful and THOUGHT provoking! Will have to come back to it tomorrow. It's very worthwhile material, so I thank you.

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Gloria Beil-Phillips
10/28/2016 10:29:52 pm

Like a knot that has become untied, like a lyrical haiku this was so beautiful-yes I have hope I will have the deep joy of being in that space of presence, of no thought that I did not really experience these High Holidays. I'm beginning to feel transformed...Thank you Brian. Good to be back!
Shabbat shalom,
Gloria

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