Genesis 31:10 · World English Bible
Genesis 31:10 Meaning During Mating Season
During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
What does Genesis 31:10 mean?
A mind that lifts up its eyes has agreed for a moment to see with a Teacher other than the one it has always trusted, and what it beholds is not the increase of a flock but the truth that vision is given, never wrestled from the world by cleverness. The marked and mottled creatures are the fruit already prepared in a mind that only had to look and receive.
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A mind that lifts up its eyes has agreed for a moment to see with a Teacher other than the one it has always trusted, and what it beholds is not the increase of a flock but the truth that vision is given, never wrestled from the world by cleverness. The marked and mottled creatures are the fruit already prepared in a mind that only had to look and receive.
The increase a mind believes it schemed for was placed there before it ever calculated, and its only work was to open the eyes and accept. What seems to require striving is answered the instant the mind is willing to be shown.
Eyes: the mind's power to perceive, which sees whatever teacher it has chosen and receives rather than makes what it looks upon. Rams and cattle: the seeming increase of the world, the outcome a mind takes for its own doing when it was quietly given all along.
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Live Genesis 31:10 today
- Before you open the planning app again, sit for two minutes with your phone face down and let the day show you what it already holds.
- Ask one person today what they see in your situation, and listen all the way to the end without building your reply while they talk.
- When a problem at work has you refreshing the same screen for the third time, step away to fill your water bottle and let the answer come to you instead of hunting it.
What have I been trying to engineer that might simply be waiting for me to look up?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 48
The way forward is by taking away, not adding. Stop forcing and the thing arrives of itself.
Zen · searching for the ox
The student hunts the ox through the hills for years, then finds he was riding it the whole time. Nothing was gained, only noticed.
Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita
Do the work in front of you and release the grip on its fruit. The outcome was never yours to manufacture.
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