Exodus 16:35 · World English Bible
The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
The awakening soul is fed the whole length of its passage through the self. Manna is the brain sugar, the galactose secreted within, the sweet mind of God that drops into the still head and nourishes a person in meditation.
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The awakening soul is fed the whole length of its passage through the self. Manna is the brain sugar, the galactose secreted within, the sweet mind of God that drops into the still head and nourishes a person in meditation. It comes not once but daily, sustaining the traveler until arrival.
The number 40 is the fourfold nature of man, the physical, spiritual, intellectual and emotional sides through which awareness must pass before it settles. Canaan is the ripened state the soul is journeying toward, the inhabited land where the wandering ends. So the long feeding is one truth held steady: the higher mind pours its own substance into a person across every part of the fourfold self, and it does not stop until the crossing is complete.
Manna: the brain sugar galactose, the secretion within that feeds the soul in meditation 40: the fourfold nature of man, the physical, spiritual, intellectual and emotional sides awareness passes through Canaan: the ripened inner land the soul journeys toward, where the wandering settles into arrival
Esoteric lens
What would change if you fed yourself for today instead of worrying about the whole road?
Chop wood, carry water. Before awakening and after, the daily feeding is the same, and it is the whole path.
The monk goes out with the begging bowl each morning. Nothing is stored, nothing runs out, and the walking continues.
A thousand mile journey begins under the foot that is moving now. The distance is covered only in today's step.
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