Matthew 19:12 · World English Bible
For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Some are shaped so by birth, some by the hand of others, and some who choose, for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, to set aside a desire that once ruled them. What matters is not the outward form but the inner letting go of the compulsions the ego lives by.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
The same verse, read by 3 traditions.
EGO & BEING
Some are shaped so by birth, some by the hand of others, and some who choose, for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, to set aside a desire that once ruled them. What matters is not the outward form but the inner letting go of the compulsions the ego lives by.
To live for the kingdom is to live for presence, and this can ask that certain cravings be released. Not everyone is ready for this surrender, and it cannot be forced. Only when you are inwardly ripe can you receive it, and then releasing the craving brings relief rather than loss, because you are no longer driven by what you have finally seen through.
ESOTERIC
The generative fire that ordinarily spends itself outward can instead be withheld and turned back up the body to feed the higher birth. 3 conditions of that fire stand side by side: some hold it cold by nature, some are cut off by force, and some by their own choosing draw the seed of life upward, refusing its outward flow so its heat rises to open the kingdom within.
Only the third is the awakened act, the deliberate gathering of the creative power inward rather than a loss of it. What is not poured out below climbs, and that raised energy quickens the inner heaven in a person.
Eunuch: the generative or sexual energy withheld from outward use, held celibate so its fire can rise inward instead of being spent Kingdom of heaven: the higher state within the body, the risen centers of the head that the raised creative force wakes and feeds
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Three men give up the same thing, but only one has done something that matters. The first was born without the drive; the second had it taken from him by others. Neither chose. What is forced on us from outside shapes our life but not who we are inside.
The third man feels the pull toward marriage and children, and sets it aside on purpose, because something in him is reaching for a deeper wholeness. A desire given up freely does not disappear. Its energy turns inward and feeds the slow work of becoming whole, so the force once meant for a family now builds the self instead.
Ego v. Being lens
What would feel lighter if you stopped carrying it, even though you once called it yours?
Craving is the thread that pulls a person through one restless life after another. When the thread is seen clearly and set down, the pulling stops on its own.
A person is not free because the senses are starved, but because the hunger behind them has quieted. Forced restraint leaves the craving alive underneath.
The deepest poverty is wanting more. Knowing when you have enough is a kind of wealth nothing outside you can give or take.
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