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Mark 11:2 · World English Bible

Mark 11:2 Meaning And Said to Them

and said to them, “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.

What does Mark 11:2 mean?

The colt no man has ridden is a state never yet assumed, a fresh possibility standing ready and only waiting to be claimed. To loose it and bring it is to take up the feeling of the wish already fulfilled and make it one's own.

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The colt no man has ridden is a state never yet assumed, a fresh possibility standing ready and only waiting to be claimed. To loose it and bring it is to take up the feeling of the wish already fulfilled and make it one's own. The village lying just across the way is the near country of the mind, close enough to enter at once, where every desired state is already tethered and available.

That the animal is tied means the state is fixed and waiting before the man reaches it, not something he must invent. He does not build the colt. He unties what is already there and rides it. To pray in this manner is to enter the state of the answered wish and assume it as present. The desire that felt distant is found waiting to be brought home.

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Live Mark 11:2 today

  1. Instead of planning how to get the thing you want, spend three minutes being the person who already has it. You are claiming, not building.
  2. The next time a friend says they want something far off, help them see the nearest true version of it, the one available this week. Close counts.
  3. Under deadline, before you grind, stop and take up the feeling of the job already handed in. Then work from there instead of toward it.

What have I been trying to build that is already waiting for me to claim it?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 48

The way is not gained by piling things up but by letting go until what was always there shows itself. You do not build it, you stop blocking it.

Hinduism · Upanishads

What you are looking for is nearer than your own breath, closer than any distance you could travel. The search has to end in where you already stand.

Sufism

You have been knocking from the inside. The door was never locked, only assumed to be.

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