John 6:22 · World English Bible
On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
The sea is the deepest truth of God, and standing on the far side of it are the people fixed on the outside, unable to see how the awakened center crosses that depth without any visible vessel. The single boat carries the meditative faculties while the higher self does not travel by that outward means, showing that the kingdom is reached inwardly and silently, not by any craft the surface mind can point to.
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ESOTERIC
The sea is the deepest truth of God, and standing on the far side of it are the people fixed on the outside, unable to see how the awakened center crosses that depth without any visible vessel. The single boat carries the meditative faculties while the higher self does not travel by that outward means, showing that the kingdom is reached inwardly and silently, not by any craft the surface mind can point to. Those left staring at the shore look for a mechanism where none exists.
What is drawn here is the search conducted from the outside for something that only opens within. The deep truth is crossed in stillness, and the parts of the self that meditate go on ahead while the literal-minded remain puzzled at the edge of the water.
Sea: the deepest truth of God, the depth crossed only inwardly Boat: the outward means the surface mind expects, insufficient for the inner crossing Disciples: the meditative faculties of the self that go ahead across the deep truth
Esoteric lens
What have I been looking for outside that was waiting in the quiet?
The way cannot be shown or handed over. Those who look for it outside will spend their lives at the edge of it.
A man searches everywhere for the ox he is riding. The looking is what keeps him from finding.
What you seek is nearer than your own breath. Turn around and it was never far enough away to travel to.
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