Acts 28:27 · World English Bible
For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’
The dullness spoken of here is not stupidity. It is the thick layer of thinking that stands between a person and the aliveness of this moment.
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EGO & BEING
The dullness spoken of here is not stupidity. It is the thick layer of thinking that stands between a person and the aliveness of this moment. The eyes close not from blindness but from being lost in the endless commentary of the mind, which sees only its own concepts laid over the world.
Healing waits on the other side of that noise. When attention drops beneath thought, even for an instant, seeing returns and so does understanding, not as a new belief but as direct knowing. People stay unhealed because they mistake their thoughts about life for life, and so they never quite arrive where they already are.
Ego v. Being lens
How much of what you are sure about today have you actually looked at?
The way that can be put into words is not the way itself. Our concepts point at life and then get mistaken for it.
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. People spend whole lives studying the finger.
Truth is veiled by the very net of names and ideas we cast over it. Lift the net and nothing new appears, only what was always shining.
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Ego v. Being