John 20:6 · World English Bible
John 20:6 Meaning Then Simon Peter Came
Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
What does John 20:6 mean?
The linen clothes are the physical body, the wrapping that once covered the awareness of being and now lies empty. Peter enters the tomb and finds the covering collapsed with no one inside it.
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The linen clothes are the physical body, the wrapping that once covered the awareness of being and now lies empty. Peter enters the tomb and finds the covering collapsed with no one inside it. Nothing was stolen and nothing was lost. The one who wore that body has simply moved out of it, and the flat, abandoned cloth is the plain evidence that a person is not the flesh he was wrapped in.
The sepulchre is not a grave in a garden but the inner place a person goes into when he turns from the outer scene to look for the self that was thought to be gone. What waits there is the discovery that the awareness of being was never in the body at all. It only seemed to be. A person is the life that leaves the wrapping behind, not the wrapping.
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Live John 20:6 today
- Standing at the mirror today, look for a second longer than usual and ask who is doing the looking. The face is the clothes, not the person wearing them.
- When you catch yourself about to say something unkind about your own body in front of someone, say nothing instead. You are talking about the coat, not about you.
- On a day when you are tired, sore or sick and it is coloring everything, say plainly: the body is having a hard day. Then see how much of the mood was never actually yours.
When you say "I", who exactly is talking?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · Katha Upanishad
The body is the chariot and you are the rider. People spend their lives polishing the chariot and never once meet the one sitting inside it.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
Look at this body, propped up, patched together, always breaking down. It is not you, and it will be set aside.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
You are a small spirit carrying a corpse around. The flesh is the cart, not the one driving it.
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