Mark 11:9 · World English Bible
Mark 11:9 Meaning Those Who Went in Front
Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
What does Mark 11:9 mean?
When love enters the mind, everything in that mind rises to welcome it, the parts that ran ahead and the parts that lagged behind alike, for nothing in the self is truly opposed to its own release. The crowd that lines the road is a picture of a mind gathering itself around the teacher it has chosen, greeting the return of what it had forgotten it wanted.
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When love enters the mind, everything in that mind rises to welcome it, the parts that ran ahead and the parts that lagged behind alike, for nothing in the self is truly opposed to its own release. The crowd that lines the road is a picture of a mind gathering itself around the teacher it has chosen, greeting the return of what it had forgotten it wanted.
To bless the one who comes in the name of love is simply to consent to that arrival. The welcome asks nothing and defends nothing. It is the mind saying yes to the correction it once feared, and in that yes the fear begins to fall away.
They that went before and they that followed: the parts of the mind, eager and reluctant, that all rise to welcome love once it is chosen
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Live Mark 11:9 today
- Say yes to one good thing today you have been half avoiding, the walk, the call back, the glass of water, the early night. Do it before the part of you that hesitates finishes its sentence.
- When someone offers you something, help, an apology, a compliment, take it fully. No deflecting, no joke to shrink it, just thank you.
- In the middle of a loud day, phone buzzing, screens going, pause and let yourself actually want the quiet you keep postponing. Thirty seconds of it is enough to feel the welcome.
What have I been wanting and still keeping at the door?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
The gateless gate stands open and always has. Walking through is nothing but the willingness to stop standing outside it.
Sufism · Rumi
Welcome each arrival at the door of yourself, even the ones you did not invite. Each one came to clear something out.
Taoism
When you stop pushing against the current, the current carries you. Consent is the whole of the work.
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