Joshua 10:12 · World English Bible
Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
In deep stillness the higher mind gains the power to command its own 2 lights. The evil, worrying thoughts of the lower mind have been handed over and broken, and now the mind itself, the sun, is told to stand still on the height of higher consciousness, while the emotions, the moon, are held quiet down in the low ground of the carnal self.
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In deep stillness the higher mind gains the power to command its own 2 lights. The evil, worrying thoughts of the lower mind have been handed over and broken, and now the mind itself, the sun, is told to stand still on the height of higher consciousness, while the emotions, the moon, are held quiet down in the low ground of the carnal self. No literal star ever froze over a battlefield. This is the old picture of the earth's turning dressed as a miracle, and inside a person it is the moment when running thought and swirling feeling both come to rest at the same instant.
Sun: the mind, the reasoning light of a person, told to hold still and stop its turning Moon: the emotions, the reflected feeling-tides that must grow quiet Gibeon: the height, the higher realms of consciousness in the head where the mind is stilled Valley of Ajalon: the low ground of the lower carnal mind where the emotions are held down Amorites: the evil, worrying thoughts of the lower mind, delivered up and defeated
Esoteric lens
What could I finally see clearly if my thinking and my feeling both held still at once?
Yoga is the stilling of the mind's turning. When the movement stops, what sees is present as it truly is, undistorted by the churn.
When a stirred pool stops being agitated, the sediment settles and the bottom becomes visible. Thought and feeling both come to rest, and clarity is what is left.
Still water reflects perfectly. The sage's mind is described that way, not strained into quiet but settled enough that nothing it shows is bent.
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