Matthew 14:10 · World English Bible
Matthew 14:10 Meaning And He Sent and Beheaded John
and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
What does Matthew 14:10 mean?
John, whose name carries the grace of the LORD, is the forerunning faculty of the natural mind that prepares the way but must yield before the higher self can reign. Beheading is the cutting of the head from the body, the severing of the lower rational faculty from its base so that a greater consciousness may take the throne.
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John, whose name carries the grace of the LORD, is the forerunning faculty of the natural mind that prepares the way but must yield before the higher self can reign. Beheading is the cutting of the head from the body, the severing of the lower rational faculty from its base so that a greater consciousness may take the throne.
The prison is the confinement of the flesh in which this preparing power sits bound, the dark cell of the body where the natural mind is held. Its losing of the head is the necessary end of the lower knowing: the forerunner is silenced within a man so that the awareness he announced can rise in his place.
John: the forerunning faculty of the natural mind, the herald that prepares the way and then must give place Prison: the confinement of the flesh, the dark cell of the body where the lower mind is held bound
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Live Matthew 14:10 today
- When you catch yourself running the same argument in your head for the fourth time, stop mid-sentence and sit with the unfinished feeling for one full minute. Do not solve it. Let it be unsolved.
- The next time someone tells you something hard, resist the urge to analyze it or give them a plan. Say almost nothing. Let the silence do the work your explaining usually does.
- In a tense moment at work, when your head is already drafting the perfect reply, put the phone face down and wait ten minutes. Answer from whatever is left after the cleverness drains out.
Where is my own thinking doing all the talking and leaving nothing room to speak?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen · Bodhidharma
The way is a direct pointing to mind, outside words and letters. Reasoning sets you up for it and then has to be set down.
Tao Te Ching 48
In study you keep adding. In the way, you keep taking away, until you are acting from something deeper than reasoning.
Hinduism · Katha Upanishad
The reasoning mind can point toward what is real but cannot reach it. It brings you to the edge and then must fall silent.
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