Proverbs 6:12 · World English Bible
Proverbs 6:12 Meaning A Worthless Person
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
What does Proverbs 6:12 mean?
What the eye meets as a wicked man is the mind's own belief in separation given a shape and set walking. The crooked speech is the language of guilt, which cannot rest in silence and must pour itself out, because a mind convinced it has done wrong keeps announcing that wrong, hoping someone else will carry it.
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What the eye meets as a wicked man is the mind's own belief in separation given a shape and set walking. The crooked speech is the language of guilt, which cannot rest in silence and must pour itself out, because a mind convinced it has done wrong keeps announcing that wrong, hoping someone else will carry it.
So the figure who seems to threaten is only fear speaking aloud, the accuser and the accused fused in one form. He can be looked past to the innocent mind he hides, and in that overlooking the whole crooked apparition quietly loses its power.
Wicked man: the belief in separation walking about in a body, the ego shown as a person Froward mouth: the voice of guilt that cannot keep silent, forever confessing outward the wrong it fears it has done
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Live Proverbs 6:12 today
- If you find yourself going over what someone said to you, replaying how wrong they were, see whether the sting is really about them. Often it lands on something you already suspected about yourself.
- With the person who is hardest to be around today, try holding one thought behind your eyes: there is something good in them that I cannot see right now. Say nothing about it, just hold it while you talk.
- When a group chat or a meeting turns into complaints about somebody, stay quiet rather than adding your line. One person not feeding it changes the temperature more than you would think.
When I am sure someone is the problem, what am I not looking at?
The same truth in other traditions
Dhammapada
It says you should look to your own faults rather than tallying the failures of others. The faults you are so busy counting are rarely where the trouble actually is.
Sufism · Rumi
He wrote that what you seek in the world is seeking you, and that the one you are fighting outside often wears your own face. Look again at what you are so sure you see.
Zen · Dogen
He wrote that to study the way is to study the self, and to study the self is to forget it. The inquiry turns inward before it has anything to say about anyone else.
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