Questions: Religion & Spirituality

Heraclitus was the Ancient Greek equivalent to Buddha... he was a prince that was set to become king of his city, but instead became a "true prophet."

He said that human wisdom is apeish to the gods. That true wisdom is to speak your mind plainly, listen actively, and act according to how you speak. That learning does not make you wise. That without mindfulness you are dead. That the mind is set afire and quickly extinguished before sleep (i think he means you should meditate at night before sleep). That death is life. That the beginning is the end. That energy destroys matter and matter destroys energy. That all things change like a river, still the same river yet never the same.

Remember if you do you lose your immortality! also there are other trees although the fruit from those ones may not be as tasty or ripe.

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” (Genesis 2:16–17)...

To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

17And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:16-19)