Matthew 18:11 · World English Bible
Matthew 18:11 Meaning For the Son of Man Came
For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
What does Matthew 18:11 mean?
Nothing was ever truly lost, only laid aside and believed forgotten. What seems missing is the mind's awareness of its own innocence, dropped somewhere in the dream of separation and mourned as gone.
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Nothing was ever truly lost, only laid aside and believed forgotten. What seems missing is the mind's awareness of its own innocence, dropped somewhere in the dream of separation and mourned as gone. Salvation does not go hunting for a thing destroyed; it comes to restore a sight, showing the mind that what it grieved was standing beside it all along, needing only to be recognized.
The one who comes to save is the teacher of love within, and his coming is a change of perception, not a rescue of the body. He finds nothing because nothing was ever really absent. He undoes the belief in loss, and in that undoing the mind sees that it was whole the whole time.
Son of man: the awakened teacher within the mind, the presence of love come to correct the sense of loss That which was lost: the mind's forgotten awareness of its own innocence, mourned as gone yet never truly absent
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Live Matthew 18:11 today
- Before you reach for your phone this morning, sit still for one minute without trying to fix anything about yourself. Nothing is missing in that minute.
- When someone tells you about a mess they made, skip the advice and tell them plainly that they are not ruined. Most people are waiting to hear that from somebody.
- In traffic or a long line, when the restlessness rises and says you should be somewhere else being someone better, let the thought go by. You are already here, and here is enough.
What have I been hunting for that was never actually gone?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
You are like someone searching the house for the glasses already on your face. The seeking is the only thing in the way.
Hinduism · Chandogya Upanishad
What you have been looking for everywhere is what you already are. Nothing has to be acquired, only recognized.
Sufism · Rumi
What you seek is also seeking you, and the distance between you was never real distance.
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