Matthew 18:2 · World English Bible
Matthew 18:2 Meaning Jesus Called a Little Child to Himself
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
What does Matthew 18:2 mean?
The center belongs to whoever has not yet built one, which is why a child is set down among grown men busy ranking themselves. A child is present without a project, playing wholly, crying wholly, and forgetting it wholly a moment later.
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The center belongs to whoever has not yet built one, which is why a child is set down among grown men busy ranking themselves. A child is present without a project, playing wholly, crying wholly, and forgetting it wholly a moment later.
Becoming a child again does not mean going backward into ignorance. The knowledge stays and the clinging to it drops. A man who has lived through everything and stopped collecting it into an identity has the same clear eyes, and this second childhood was standing in the middle of the room while they went on calculating their positions.
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Live Matthew 18:2 today
- Do one thing today with your whole attention and no second screen, eating lunch, washing dishes, walking to the car. Be entirely in it, then let it go completely when it ends.
- Ask someone a question you genuinely do not know the answer to, and resist adding what you already know. Let them teach you something small.
- In a meeting where everyone is quietly ranking themselves, step out of the ranking. Say what you actually think with no eye on how it positions you.
What could you enjoy today if you were not keeping track of how you looked doing it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 28
Return to the simplicity of an infant, not by forgetting what you know but by loosening your grip on it. Softness outlasts the hardness that was so sure of itself.
Zen · Shunryu Suzuki
The beginner's mind holds all possibilities. The expert's mind holds mostly the expert.
Taoism · Chuang Tzu
The truly free person wears no rank. Among people busy measuring each other, that one is simply playing.
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