Mark 12:11 · World English Bible
Mark 12:11 Meaning This Was From the Lord
This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?
What does Mark 12:11 mean?
That what was thrown away becomes the foundation is not something the mind arranges for itself; it is the work of love, and it looks like a wonder only because fear had judged so wrongly. The marvel is not a strange event in the world but the astonishment of perception healed, the mind seeing at last that the innocence it despised was holding everything together all along.
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That what was thrown away becomes the foundation is not something the mind arranges for itself; it is the work of love, and it looks like a wonder only because fear had judged so wrongly. The marvel is not a strange event in the world but the astonishment of perception healed, the mind seeing at last that the innocence it despised was holding everything together all along.
So the wonder is really a homecoming to sight. What amazes is simply the truth appearing where the ego swore there was nothing of worth, and the mind, corrected, can hardly believe it once looked past what was always there.
Eyes: the mind's perception, amazed to find worth where fear had seen none, sight restored to what it always overlooked
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Live Mark 12:11 today
- On your commute today, look at one thing you pass every single day and actually see it, a tree, a face behind a counter, the shape of a building. Let it be new without making it a project.
- Tell someone close to you one specific thing you appreciate that you have never said out loud, something you had always assumed they knew.
- When something goes better than you expected, resist explaining it away or crediting your own planning. Just let yourself be glad about it for a moment before moving on.
Where in your ordinary day has something good been sitting in plain view, waiting for you to look at it?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen · Dogen
Enlightenment is not a new thing added to you; it is like the moon reflected in water, already complete the moment you stop stirring the surface. The wonder is in the clearing, not the arriving.
Sufism · Rumi
The eye sees only what it is trained to look for, and love retrains the eye. Then the ordinary street you walked a thousand times stops you where you stand.
Tao Te Ching 1
The way that can be pointed at is not the way; it is nearer than pointing. What astonishes is not a secret revealed but the plainness of what was there the whole time.
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