Luke 6:39 · World English Bible
Luke 6:39 Meaning He Spoke a Parable to Them
He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
What does Luke 6:39 mean?
The blind is the mind that has chosen fear for its teacher and so cannot see; it looks upon a world of separation and calls the illusion sight. When such a mind takes another as its guide, both follow the same darkened perception, and the ditch is only where that shared blindness inevitably ends, in the pit their common error has already dug.
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The blind is the mind that has chosen fear for its teacher and so cannot see; it looks upon a world of separation and calls the illusion sight. When such a mind takes another as its guide, both follow the same darkened perception, and the ditch is only where that shared blindness inevitably ends, in the pit their common error has already dug.
No mind can lead another out of a dream it still believes. Only a different teacher, one that sees with love, can open the eyes; until then the blind lead the blind, and the fall is not punishment but simply where fear was always going.
Blind: the mind that has taken fear as its teacher and mistakes the dream of separation for vision Ditch: the end that shared blindness arrives at, the pit already dug by the error two minds agree to follow
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Live Luke 6:39 today
- Look at what has been shaping your mood lately, the feeds, the voices, the five minutes before sleep. Cut the one that leaves you most anxious and see what fills the space.
- When a friend asks for advice about something you have never gotten right yourself, say so. Then sit with them in the question rather than handing them a confident answer you do not have.
- In the meeting where everyone is nodding along to a plan nobody understands, be the one who asks what the first step actually is. A fair question in the right second saves everyone the fall.
Whose confidence have I been borrowing instead of looking for myself?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Follow someone who has mistaken the finger for the moon, and you will both spend the night staring at a hand.
Buddhism · Tevijja Sutta
The Buddha compares teachers who have not seen for themselves to a file of blind men, each holding the one in front. The first one cannot lead, so the whole line goes nowhere together.
Stoicism · Seneca
Seneca warns that the crowd is the worst teacher, because its opinions were never examined by anyone in it. A path is not safe because many feet have worn it.
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