John 9:7 · World English Bible
John 9:7 Meaning And Said to Him
and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
What does John 9:7 mean?
The mind that has lived in the darkness of the belief in separation is sent to a still water whose very name means Sent, and this is the whole secret of the correction. Sight is not manufactured by effort; it is received by a mind willing to be led, to go where love directs and let the false covering be washed away.
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The mind that has lived in the darkness of the belief in separation is sent to a still water whose very name means Sent, and this is the whole secret of the correction. Sight is not manufactured by effort; it is received by a mind willing to be led, to go where love directs and let the false covering be washed away.
What is cleansed is not the eyes but the perception behind them. The one who goes obediently and washes returns able to see, because he laid down his own way of looking and accepted the vision that was given, and that surrender is itself the miracle.
Pool of Siloam: the still place of correction within, the water that washes away false perception; being named Sent, it is the vision that comes not from the self but from the love that directs the mind
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Live John 9:7 today
- Take one small piece of advice you have been quietly resisting, from a doctor, a friend, a trainer, and simply do it today without arguing it in your head first.
- Let someone else decide something small for you today, where the restaurant is or how the task gets done, and go along with it fully instead of half following.
- When you are stuck on a problem at work and keep pushing the same way, stop, ask someone, and actually use what they tell you. The stuck part was never the problem, the grip was.
Where am I insisting on my own way of seeing when I have already been shown another?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 8
Water takes the low place and does not force, and that is exactly how it gets everywhere. Going where you are sent beats pushing where you planned.
Bhagavad Gita 18
The teaching is to act and then release the fruit, letting a larger will carry the outcome. The strain goes out of doing once you stop owning the result.
Zen
To get a cup of tea you have to empty the cup first. Nothing new can be received by someone still holding their old way of seeing.
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