The sermon on the Mount opens with the eight Beatitudes. They are actually a prose poem in eight verses and constitute a general summary of the Christian teaching. A general summing up, such as this, is highly characteristic of the old Oriental mode of approach to a religious and philosophical teaching, and it naturally recalls the Eightfold Path of Buddhism, the Ten Commandments of Moses, and other such compact groupings of ideas.
Jesus concerned himself exclusively with the teaching of general principles, and these general principles always had to do with mental states, for he knew that if one’s mental states are right, everything else might be right too. Unlike the other great religious teachers, he gives us no detailed instructions about what we are to do or not to do.
…the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
…the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth
(John 4:21, 23-24).
Are we living our lives in spirit and truth? Are we worshipping God this way. In spirit means that which is in our hearts, our intentions and our minds. In truth means according to God’s teachings. Many of us worship and live in physicality and sensory perception. This will not lead us to the Eden God created for us.
When our perception and reality is based on spirituality and God’s truth, we are on the path to our gardens.
In spirit and truth,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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