Matthew 24:38 · World English Bible
Matthew 24:38 Meaning For as in Those Days Which Were
For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
What does Matthew 24:38 mean?
Eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage are the mind's full absorption in the body and its couplings, the whole attention poured into appetite and sensation while the deeper flood gathers unseen. Life carried on this way is life lived entirely on the surface of the senses, taking in and joining without once turning inward.
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Eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage are the mind's full absorption in the body and its couplings, the whole attention poured into appetite and sensation while the deeper flood gathers unseen. Life carried on this way is life lived entirely on the surface of the senses, taking in and joining without once turning inward. Noah is the just consciousness that reads the coming change and prepares a vessel, and the ark is the sealed inner sanctuary a person builds to ride out the dissolving. The flood is the rising tide of spirit that washes away the old sense-bound order. Those still eating and drinking are simply asleep to it, drowned because they never looked up.
Flood: the rising tide of spirit that dissolves the old order built on the senses Noah: the just consciousness within that foresees the change and prepares for it Ark: the sealed inner sanctuary a person builds to carry the awakened self through the dissolving
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Live Matthew 24:38 today
- Eat one meal today with your phone in another room. Just the food, the chair, the taste. See how much of your day you usually spend half here.
- When a group chat pulls you into something trivial for the fourth time, step out of it for an hour and use that hour for something you actually chose.
- In the middle of a busy afternoon, stop for sixty seconds at your desk or in your car and ask what you have been ignoring while you stayed busy. Write down the one thing that comes up.
What have I been too entertained to look at?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Dhammapada
People chase pleasure the way a sleeper keeps dreaming, until the dream ends without warning. Preparing the mind now is the only shelter there is.
Stoicism · Seneca
The trouble is not that life is short but that we spend it entirely on distractions and look up only at the end.
Tao Te Ching 64
Deal with things while they are still small. The one who prepares before the trouble arrives is never caught by it.
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