Title:
The tree of knowledge 1.0

Description:
This video was made over a year ago. I had it posted here on youtube for a while but a few months ago decided to take it off. After recently watching it again I decided to repost it despite not being entirely satisfied with its content and presentation. This film could have been so much better and been much more simple and clear in its presentation. It seems to me that a good message should be a common sense sort of of thing, and it should be presented in such a way that anyone can identify with it and they don't have to contemplate too much to live it. Perhaps one day I will have the time and resources to reproduce this theme in a new but similar film. One of the main reasons I decided to repost this film is because of a few small pieces of synchronicity that appeared in it: One has to do with the set of garden tools hanging on the wall just behind my head in the scene where Im sitting next to my sister. Completely unintentionally the shovel hook lines up perfectly with my ears in such a way that the garden shovel handles are on both sides of my head (ears). Although it may seem abstract the significance is as follows: The shovels are a part of a set of lizard themed garden tools (even the hooks have four little lizards on them, they can been seen if one looks closely at the video). The lizard is a metaphor for the serpent, the serpent being the root of the temptation to eat of the tree of knowledge in the story of genesis, that which made man leave the garden of eden) The significance of the shovels being near the ears is that the central advice from the guru (my little sister) is to "just listen", and in doing so one will uproot and transcend the source of negative karma, the source of suffering. To "just listen" is the theme, to just stay completely present and aware, always, to that which is experienced, to forget about knowing anything, to be like an innocent child who is always completely engaged in the moment. So there I am meditating, with my guru, as she says "just listen", and there are garden shovels sprouting from my ears, in a film where digging up those pesky roots is a metaphor for transcending suffering, rediscovering a child like passion for life, and learning to see love beauty and joy everywhere and in everything: enlightenment. It was very interesting to find this synchronous unintended image in this film, I myself didn't even notice it until after I had filmed it. It really seems to bring together the whole basic message of the film together in a very neat little way. I find it absolutely amazing when the universe throws these little pieces of magic our way, it seems to say to us "your on the right track".

Author:
jbfoyle

Tags:
child, enlightenment, guru, innocence,