The Blue Lupin
October 23 - October 29, 2005
According to The Zohar, the whole apple-eating incident with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden (known kabbalistically as the sin of Adam), was written into the original thought of Creation.
We were destined to fall.
I know, not the cheeriest way to begin a tune-up, but take heart—there’s a flip side.
Remember back in the Endless World, before this world was created, before the sun and the moon, before good and evil, before Coke vs. Pepsi? Remember when we were one with the Light? It was then that we decided we needed a playground where we could play the role of Creator. We decided that in order to do so, we needed a setting and characters who could play the roles of our challenges, our obstacles, and our subsequent triumphs.
There is a beautiful line in the Shabbat prayer Lecha Dodi that says, “The manifestation of every action is already included in the inception of the first thought.”
The sin of Adam was encoded in the act of Creation because we knew we’d need the fall to make the getting up so rewarding. It’s important for you to constantly remember that obstacles are necessities. However, it’s your choice whether they become chaos or opportunities for revealing Light. Do you get the difference? You can wallow in the garbage or triumph in it. This week we get the energy to choose triumph.
This idea is echoed in the beauty of my favorite California wildflower, the blue lupin. Every petal of the lupin is edged with white, providing contrast and giving the blue color more definition, so that a field of lupins is more brilliantly blue than you can imagine.
This fulfilled life is so fulfilled because it is edged with lack.
If you’re walking this earth, you’re going to experience moments of lack. But as long as you learn from those moments—and get inspired by them—then you are doing exactly what you asked for so long ago.
Remember?
All the Best,
Yehuda