Mark 15:43 · World English Bible
Mark 15:43 Meaning Joseph of Arimathaea
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
What does Mark 15:43 mean?
Here is one who waited for the kingdom of God. True waiting is not the mind’s impatience for something to happen.
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Ego v. Being
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Ego v. Being
Here is one who waited for the kingdom of God. True waiting is not the mind’s impatience for something to happen. It is alert stillness, a readiness that stays present and awake for what is real rather than what the ego wants.
Out of that stillness comes a strange fearlessness. He walks in boldly before the powerful and asks for the body of the crucified, which most would avoid. When you are rooted in presence rather than in fear of what others can do to you, you act simply and directly, because nothing in you remains that needs to protect itself.
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Live Mark 15:43 today
- Before opening your inbox, sit still for two minutes with no input at all. Let the day meet a settled person instead of a reactive one.
- Say the kind thing you have been swallowing: check on the person everyone has stopped asking about, or thank someone out loud in the group chat where it feels slightly awkward.
- When something wrong comes up in a meeting and the room goes quiet, be the one who says it plainly and without heat. Then stop talking and let it sit there.
What have you been waiting to say, and whose opinion is the thing holding you back?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Do the right thing in front of you and let the consequences be what they are. Whether people approve has nothing to do with whether it is yours to do.
Taoism · Tao Te Ching 15
The one who is settled can wait like muddy water settling clear. Out of that stillness, action comes at the right moment without force.
Bhagavad Gita
Act because the action is right, not because of what it will get you. The doing is yours, the outcome is not.
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