John 17:15 · World English Bible
John 17:15 Meaning I Pray Not That You Would Take
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
What does John 17:15 mean?
Escape is not the answer, because the world is not the problem. It is a picture the mind projects, and fleeing the picture would leave the projector untouched.
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Escape is not the answer, because the world is not the problem. It is a picture the mind projects, and fleeing the picture would leave the projector untouched. So the asking is not for removal from the dream but for protection within it, that the mind be kept from the one real danger, which is belief in the ego's version of things.
The evil to be kept from is not out there in events; it is the choice of fear over Love, the guilt that turns a neutral world into a threatening one. A mind held safe from that choice walks through any circumstance unharmed.
World: the mind's own projection, neutral in itself, which fear alone dresses as a threat and love reveals as harmless.
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Live John 17:15 today
- When something goes wrong today, say what happened in plain facts with no adjectives. The event is usually much smaller than the story about it.
- When someone is short with you, hold off on deciding what it meant. Most sharp tones are about their morning and not about you.
- Under real pressure, a deadline, a bill, a hard call, stay with the next small step instead of the whole imagined disaster. The problem stays the size it actually is.
How much of what I am fighting today did I build myself?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Epictetus
It is not events that disturb us but our judgments about them. The traffic is traffic, and the ruin of your afternoon is something you added.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
All of this is made with the mind. A thing becomes a threat the moment you decide it is one.
Tao Te Ching 8
Water does not fight the ground, it takes its shape and keeps moving. Nothing has to be escaped to be passed through unharmed.
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