The Garden of Eden is oft used as an alegory for a previous state of innocence, but it brings to mind a metaphor of more immediate value. The gardens that we moderns are familiar with are sources of aesthetic and physical nourishment. We care for the soil and pull the weeds that we will have a feast for the eyes and food on the table. The mind is exactly the same.
Ideas are the fruits and the flowers in the garden of the mind. If the mind is not cultivated and weeded it becomes an overgrown jungle fit for starvation. It is not at all difficult to see that ideas which should be torn out by the roots are crowding out the flowering of peace on earth and good will toward men.
Meditation and the ideas emerging from the ensuing Enlightenment can make possible, individually and collectively, a return to the Garden.
Meditate
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