Matthew 24:32 · World English Bible
Matthew 24:32 Meaning Now From the Fig Tree Learn This
Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
What does Matthew 24:32 mean?
The fig tree is the body itself, the living tree of the human nature whose signs a person learns to read from the inside. When its branch grows tender and puts out leaves, the finer energy is rising and softening the hardened parts, and this budding is the near approach of an inward ripening.
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The fig tree is the body itself, the living tree of the human nature whose signs a person learns to read from the inside. When its branch grows tender and puts out leaves, the finer energy is rising and softening the hardened parts, and this budding is the near approach of an inward ripening. Summer is the season of fullness within, the warmth in which the higher consciousness comes to fruit. The tender branch tells the being that the change has already begun in the flesh before it is felt above. What religion pushes off to a distant calendar is a growth happening now in the tree of one's own body, read in the softening and the first green.
Fig tree: the body itself, the living tree of the human nature whose signs are read from within Tender branch putting forth leaves: the finer energy rising and softening the hardened parts as an inward ripening begins Summer: the season of fullness within, the warmth in which the higher consciousness comes to fruit
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Live Matthew 24:32 today
- Pay attention today to one small change in your body or mood that you have been dismissing, sleeping better, less edge in the mornings, the way you reached for your phone less. Count it as real.
- Tell one person about something that has shifted in you lately, even if it is small and you cannot explain it yet. Saying it out loud makes it harder to talk yourself out of.
- On a day that feels like nothing is happening, remember the last time you felt that way and what had actually been growing underneath. Then do the ordinary next thing without demanding proof.
What early sign of change have you been waiting to be bigger before you trust it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 64
The great tree begins as a sprout, and the thousand mile journey begins under your feet. What will be obvious later is already quietly underway.
Zen
The teachers point to the plum blossom opening in the snow. The season has already turned in the branch before anyone outside feels the warmth.
Buddhism
The practice is described as a hen sitting on eggs. She cannot see the chicks, but the warmth is doing its work, and the shells crack in their own time.
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