Matthew 13:10 · World English Bible
Matthew 13:10 Meaning The Disciples Came
The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
What does Matthew 13:10 mean?
The disciples are the parts of a person that have begun to meditate, the faculties turned inward far enough to ask why the teaching comes veiled. Parables are the answer built into the question, secrets deliberately hidden from anyone who will not discipline the mind to look beneath the surface story.
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The disciples are the parts of a person that have begun to meditate, the faculties turned inward far enough to ask why the teaching comes veiled. Parables are the answer built into the question, secrets deliberately hidden from anyone who will not discipline the mind to look beneath the surface story. The higher awareness speaks in coded images because the meaning is meant to open only to the trained inner faculties, not to the outer man who takes every word as history.
The veiled speech is not concealment for its own sake but a filter, the inner meaning stays closed to the undisciplined mind and opens only to the part of a person willing to sit still and dig beneath the images.
disciples: the inward-turned faculties of a person who meditates, awake enough to question parables: the inner secrets hidden on purpose from anyone unwilling to discipline the mind
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Live Matthew 13:10 today
- Reread something today that you think you already understand, a passage, a letter, a song you know well. The second time through is where the real reading starts.
- When someone says something that does not land right away, ask what they mean instead of filing it under disagreement. The hard-to-grasp thing is often the most worth having.
- When you are rushed and want the short version, give the thing in front of you one more minute than it comfortably gets. Speed reads surfaces well and nothing else.
What have I dismissed as unclear when it was simply asking more of me?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
The koan is not a riddle with a hidden answer to be looked up. It is given precisely because it cannot be solved by the thinking mind, and the sitting with it is the whole point.
Taoism · Zhuangzi
The fish trap is forgotten once the fish is caught, and words can be let go once the meaning arrives. The person still arguing about the trap never ate.
Judaism
Scripture is turned over and turned over, because it is read on more than one level and the plain sense is only the first door. The work of returning to it is where the meaning opens.
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