John 9:1 · World English Bible
John 9:1 Meaning As He Passed by
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
What does John 9:1 mean?
The man is the mind, and blindness from birth is the condition of every person who enters the flesh unaware of the inner light, the spiritual eye shut from the beginning of bodily life. The higher awareness passing by and seeing this is the Christ mind, awakened through stillness, turning its attention to the faculty that has never yet perceived.
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The man is the mind, and blindness from birth is the condition of every person who enters the flesh unaware of the inner light, the spiritual eye shut from the beginning of bodily life. The higher awareness passing by and seeing this is the Christ mind, awakened through stillness, turning its attention to the faculty that has never yet perceived. Sight was not lost through fault; it was simply never opened, the way a newborn faculty waits in the dark for the light it has always been capable of.
What is described is the ordinary starting place of a human being, the reasoning mind born into the body with its inner eye closed, waiting for the awakened awareness to open it from within.
man: the reasoning mind of a person, the faculty that must learn to see blind from his birth: the inner eye shut from the start of bodily life, unawakened rather than damaged
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Live John 9:1 today
- Admit one thing today you simply have not seen yet, without turning it into a fault, and stay curious about it instead of defensive.
- Be patient with one person who clearly cannot see what you see. They are not being stubborn, they are just not there yet, and neither were you once.
- When you get something wrong in front of other people today, say "I did not see that" plainly, and let it be a beginning instead of an embarrassment.
What have I been calling blindness in someone when it was only morning for them?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
Everyone starts out sleepwalking, and nobody is being punished for it. Awakening is simply opening the eye that was always there.
Buddhism
Ignorance is not a crime. It is the ordinary beginning, like a room in the dark that only needs a lamp carried into it.
Sufism · Rumi
You have an eye that has never been used. All your life it has been waiting for light it was made to receive.
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