Matthew 9:28 · World English Bible
Matthew 9:28 Meaning When He Had Come Into the House
When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
What does Matthew 9:28 mean?
Blindness here names the everyday self's refusal to see the parts it hides, and the question asked inside the house is the deep center's demand that the everyday self agree to that seeing. Two men, still incomplete as a pair, move inward across the threshold, tracing the mind's descent toward its hidden depths.
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Blindness here names the everyday self's refusal to see the parts it hides, and the question asked inside the house is the deep center's demand that the everyday self agree to that seeing.
Two men, still incomplete as a pair, move inward across the threshold, tracing the mind's descent toward its hidden depths. The image of God does not argue doctrine. It asks only whether the everyday self will drop its defense of not-knowing. Their "Yes" opens the inner bridge. A man may carry a disowned act sealed in silence for years, the hidden thing so complete that no one around him can name it, until those depths break through and restore what was lost to sight. Becoming whole runs exactly this course.
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Live Matthew 9:28 today
- Drop one phrase from your inner vocabulary today: "I don't know why I do that." Sit with the thing you do, alone, and admit you have a pretty good guess.
- When someone brings up the thing about you that you usually deflect, do not deflect. Say, "Yeah, you're right, that's real," and let the silence sit there.
- Under pressure, when you feel the story forming about how this is not your fault, pause before you hit send on that email. Ask yourself whether you are defending the truth or defending your version.
What would change if I stopped protecting my not-knowing?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Zhuangzi
Fast the mind until it is empty. Only an empty thing can receive what is offered to it.
Stoicism · Epictetus
It is impossible for a person to begin learning what he thinks he already knows.
Buddhism
The first noble truth is simply admitting that something hurts. Nothing moves until that is said plainly.
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