Luke 20:14 · World English Bible
Luke 20:14 Meaning But When the Farmers Saw Him
But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
What does Luke 20:14 mean?
The ego sees the truth most clearly at the very moment it decides to destroy it. Recognizing the heir, the mind does not soften but calculates, for it knows that if the true self is real, its own false ownership is finished.
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The ego sees the truth most clearly at the very moment it decides to destroy it. Recognizing the heir, the mind does not soften but calculates, for it knows that if the true self is real, its own false ownership is finished. The whole plot to kill is the belief that separation can be secured by removing whatever would end it, that guilt can keep its holdings by silencing the voice that calls them a dream.
But an inheritance cannot be seized by murder, for it was never a thing to be taken. A mind that kills the heir to keep the estate imagines love can be gotten rid of and its gifts kept without it. The two cannot be parted.
Husbandmen: the mind's defenders of separation, who recognize the truth precisely in order to destroy it. Heir: the true self that rightfully receives all the source has given, the presence whose reality exposes every false claim of ownership. Inheritance: the mind's whole gift and birthright, which the ego wrongly believes it can possess by removing the one to whom it belongs.
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Live Luke 20:14 today
- Catch the moment today when you see clearly what the honest thing would be and then look for a way around it. That flinch is the whole thing worth watching.
- If you have been quietly cutting someone out to protect your standing, in a group, a family, a team, stop. Say the fair thing about them out loud instead.
- When a win at work would come at someone else's expense, ask whether you actually want the thing or just want to not lose. Usually the grip is about fear, not value.
What am I willing to damage in order to keep something I was never going to own?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
The one who grasps loses. Hands tight enough to hold a thing forever are already crushing it.
Buddhism
The self we defend so fiercely is the one thing we cannot find when we look. All that violence protects a position, not a person.
Stoicism · Epictetus
You cannot both keep your grip on things outside your control and keep your peace. Choose one, because the price of the first is always the second.
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