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John 16:10 · World English Bible

John 16:10 Meaning About Righteousness

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

What does John 16:10 mean?

Righteousness means alignment, not achievement. Rightness is not moral performance but return to Source.

From the Ego v. Being reading below.

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EGO & BEING

Ego v. Being

Righteousness means alignment, not achievement.

Rightness is not moral performance but return to Source. The going is the dissolution of form back into formlessness.

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Live John 16:10 today

  1. Do one small task today, dishes, a walk, an email, without the running tally of whether you are doing enough. Just be in it and let that be the whole of it.
  2. Help someone with something today and tell no one about it. See how it feels to do good without the receipt.
  3. When the pressure is on to look capable in front of people, ask yourself quietly what the honest next step is. Then take that one, not the impressive one.

How much of what you call doing right is really about being seen doing it?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching

Water does not strive to be good, it simply goes the way of its nature. Rightness is agreement with the way, not a performance of virtue.

Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita

Act from what you truly are rather than for what the act can get you. Alignment, not scorekeeping.

Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius

Live in step with nature and you are already right. There is no prize to win on top of that.

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