Mark 9:45 · World English Bible
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—
A foot is what carries you forward, and some directions the mind insists on taking lead only deeper into pain. To cut off the offending foot is to stop walking a path your conditioning swears you must keep walking, to end a momentum that has become its own justification.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
A foot is what carries you forward, and some directions the mind insists on taking lead only deeper into pain. To cut off the offending foot is to stop walking a path your conditioning swears you must keep walking, to end a momentum that has become its own justification. The ego will call this a loss. It is a rescue.
The unquenchable fire is nothing imposed from outside. It is the self-perpetuating anguish of a mind that keeps moving in the wrong direction because stopping feels like death. To enter life limping is to be present and free, having surrendered the compulsion. You reach peace not by pressing on but by being willing to halt.
Ego v. Being lens
Where am I still moving mostly because stopping would feel like failing?
Know when to stop. Pressing past the right moment undoes everything you gained by starting.
The eightfold path does not ask for more effort but for effort pointed the right way. Strain in a harmful direction is not practice.
He warned that a long life spent rushing is not a long life. Being busy and being on the right road are two different things.
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Ego v. Being