Luke 23:45 · World English Bible
Luke 23:45 Meaning The Sun Was Darkened
The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
What does Luke 23:45 mean?
When a mind lets go of the belief that light comes from the world, the borrowed sun goes dark, and this darkness is not loss but the ending of a false source. What remains is the true Light, which never depended on the sky at all.
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When a mind lets go of the belief that light comes from the world, the borrowed sun goes dark, and this darkness is not loss but the ending of a false source. What remains is the true Light, which never depended on the sky at all.
The torn curtain undoes the old idea that the holy is walled off, kept behind a barrier where only the guilty may not enter. Nothing separates the mind from what it feared it had lost. The partition that seemed to divide the ordinary from the sacred was never real, and when it falls, a mind sees there was only ever one room.
Sun: the outer light the mind mistook for its source, the borrowed brightness that hides the Light within Veil: the curtain of guilt that seems to hang between the mind and the holy, the sense of a barrier keeping it out Temple: the mind itself as the dwelling place of what is sacred, the inner sanctuary that fear had walled away
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Live Luke 23:45 today
- For ten minutes today put the phone face down and sit without any light from a screen on you. What is left when the borrowed glow goes out is not nothing.
- Treat an ordinary moment with someone, doing dishes, waiting in the car, as the real thing rather than the gap between real things. There is no waiting room.
- When a day goes dark and the thing you were counting on falls through, hold off on calling it loss for a few hours. Sometimes a false source going out is the first honest light you have had.
Where have I decided the sacred does not reach, and who drew that line?
The same truth in other traditions
Upanishads
What lights the sun is not the sun, and the light you are looking for is the one by which you are looking.
Zen
There is no gate. The barrier was built by the one standing in front of it, and the way through is to stop believing in the wall.
Tao Te Ching 1
The sacred is not kept somewhere apart from the ordinary. Draw a line between them and you have described only your own line.
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