Matthew 23:10 · World English Bible
Matthew 23:10 Meaning Neither Be Called Masters
Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
What does Matthew 23:10 mean?
The warning against being called master returns because the wish to rule over other minds is stubborn, and the ego offers it again and again as proof of worth. To take that title is to imagine oneself the author of another's learning, when in truth every mind is taught by the same inner Voice and no self has anything of its own to hand down.
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The warning against being called master returns because the wish to rule over other minds is stubborn, and the ego offers it again and again as proof of worth. To take that title is to imagine oneself the author of another's learning, when in truth every mind is taught by the same inner Voice and no self has anything of its own to hand down.
So the mind is brought back once more to its one teacher within. When it accepts that a single Master speaks to all, the whole contest for position falls away, for there is nothing to win where all are led by the same love, and the self that stops striving to rule finds it never lacked the worth it tried to seize.
Master: the one inner teacher all minds share, the single Voice for love that alone instructs, leaving no self to rule over another
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Live Matthew 23:10 today
- When you feel the urge to be the one who knows, let a question sit unanswered for a minute. The pull to be the authority says more about your own doubt than about the topic.
- Give advice today only if asked, and when you do, offer it as one view rather than the verdict. The other person is already being taught from the inside.
- In a group chat or a work thread where people are competing to be right, drop out of the contest. Add something useful, or add nothing, and let the win go.
What would you stop having to prove if being the one who knows did not matter?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 66
The river reaches the sea by staying low. The one who leads well puts himself behind, and so ends up ahead without reaching for it.
Zen
The teacher does not hand over understanding. He gets out of the way of it, and the student finds what was already there.
Stoicism · Epictetus
You cannot govern another person's mind, only your own responses. Reach for more than that and you will exhaust yourself over nothing.
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