Luke 5:37 · World English Bible
Luke 5:37 Meaning No One Puts New Wine Into Old
No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
What does Luke 5:37 mean?
Something alive cannot be poured into a structure made of yesterday. The mind is old by nature, a hardened collection of what has already happened, and any real experience entering it either ferments and tears it apart or is drained away into concepts.
From the Indian Guru reading below.
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Something alive cannot be poured into a structure made of yesterday. The mind is old by nature, a hardened collection of what has already happened, and any real experience entering it either ferments and tears it apart or is drained away into concepts.
The seeker who wants truth added to his personality asks the impossible. The vessel itself has to be new: a fresh receptivity, unhardened by conclusions, willing to hold what it does not yet understand. That newness arrives in a moment of watching, when the old accumulation is set aside and something can be received directly.
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Live Luke 5:37 today
- Read or listen to something today without deciding whether you agree. Let it sit in you unresolved for a day, with no verdict and no summary.
- In your next real conversation, ask one more question before you say what you think. Let the other person surprise you instead of confirming what you already had them down as.
- When new information upends a plan at work, resist squeezing it into the old plan. Let the plan be the thing that changes.
What am I so sure about that nothing new can get in beside it?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A student came full of what he knew, so the master kept pouring until the cup overflowed. Empty first, then there is room.
Tao Te Ching 11
The usefulness of a cup is the hollow in it. What a vessel holds depends entirely on the space nobody filled.
Buddhism
The raft that carried you across is not meant to be carried on your back. Conclusions that once helped become the weight that stops you moving.
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