Mark 14:45 · World English Bible
Mark 14:45 Meaning When He Had Come
When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.
What does Mark 14:45 mean?
The mind that has decided on attack still comes forward speaking the language of devotion, calling the other teacher and pressing close as though in reverence. This is the ego's deepest confusion, that it approaches love itself in order to hand it over, unable to tell its longing from its dread.
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The mind that has decided on attack still comes forward speaking the language of devotion, calling the other teacher and pressing close as though in reverence. This is the ego's deepest confusion, that it approaches love itself in order to hand it over, unable to tell its longing from its dread. The nearer it draws, the clearer it becomes that it does not know what it is doing.
What is truly sought under the betrayal is reunion, though fear has twisted the reaching into a grasp that wounds. A mind that watches this scene without judgment sees only a frightened part of itself running toward the very love it means to betray, and in that seeing the betrayal loses its power to accuse.
Master: the teacher of love the fearful mind approaches even as it moves to betray, the innocence it cannot stop reaching for
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Live Mark 14:45 today
- Think of a time you pushed away someone you actually wanted close. Do not relitigate it. Just see the wanting that was hiding inside the pushing.
- When someone picks a fight with you over nothing, especially someone who loves you, ask yourself what they might really be asking for. Often it is simply, are you still here.
- If you feel the urge to send the cold message or make the cutting joke, name what you actually want underneath it. Then try saying that instead, even badly.
What am I reaching for in the way least likely to get it?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · the hungry ghost
Some reach for what they need in exactly the way that makes it impossible to receive. The grasping and the longing are the same motion gone wrong.
Sufism · Rumi
Your longing for the beloved is itself the beloved calling. Even the clumsy, wounding reach is a reach.
Tao Te Ching 64
The one who acts on things spoils them, and the one who grips them loses them. What is wanted most is lost by the grabbing for it.
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