Psalms 147:14 · World English Bible
Psalms 147:14 Meaning He Makes Peace in Your Borders
He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
What does Psalms 147:14 mean?
Sīla: Virtue Sīla is the training in conduct. A border is only as good as the fence along it, and the precepts run exactly there, at the edge of what you will do, say, and take for your own gain.
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Sīla: Virtue Sīla is the training in conduct. A border is only as good as the fence along it, and the precepts run exactly there, at the edge of what you will do, say, and take for your own gain. Quiet inside the boundary follows from that line holding, since ground nobody is raiding is ground where wheat has time to ripen.
Avera: Freedom from enmity Avera is holding no hostility toward anyone. Bars on a rebuilt gate keep an armed neighbor out, and the hostility that arms him began much earlier, in someone's chest. Peace made there needs no garrison, because a person carrying no grudge has no reason to cross the line at all.
Puñña: Merit Puñña is the good that comes back around from good done. Safe frontiers and full barns arrive the way a harvest arrives, and behind every harvest lies a season of sowing that nobody sees at the table. Giving and restraint are that sowing, and the ease of a whole people comes up out of them.
Āhāra: Nutriment Āhāra is whatever feeds: food, contact, intention, awareness. Wheat fills a belly for a day, and the mind eats just as steadily, living on what it looks at and turns over. To be filled with the best of the grain, then, means watching the whole diet, since coarse feeding shows in a body and in a temper alike.
Santuṭṭhi: Contentment Santuṭṭhi is satisfaction with what is at hand. The fat of the wheat is the richest part of the grain, and it is also the moment of stopping, when the stomach asks for nothing more. Contentment is called the greatest wealth, and whoever has it eats plain bread the way another eats a feast.
Dhammarasa: The taste of the Dhamma Dhammarasa is the flavor of the teaching. Every good loaf goes stale by morning, and the exiles gathered back into that city would need feeding again the next day. This filling is the one that outlasts the meal, the taste that surpasses all tastes and leaves no hunger waiting behind it.
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Live Psalms 147:14 today
- Look at what your eyes ate yesterday, the feeds, the clips, the arguments you read for free, and cut one source for the day. The mind lives on what it looks at, and coarse feeding shows.
- At dinner tonight, eat the first few bites without your phone anywhere in reach and stop when your stomach stops asking. Then stay at the table a while longer with whoever is there.
- When you want to say the cutting thing, or take the shortcut nobody would catch, hold the line at the edge of what you will do. The quiet inside your life comes from that fence holding, not from anyone else behaving.
Where is your line, and who would be able to tell you had one?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 46
There is no greater wealth than knowing when you have enough. Wanting is the only real poverty, and it empties a full house.
Hinduism · the Upanishads
What a person feeds on, they become, and food is counted widely: what enters the mouth, the eyes, the mind. The whole diet makes the body and the temper both.
Stoicism · Seneca
He said that if what you have seems too little, you would be unhappy owning the world, and that a boundary set on wanting is what makes a life peaceful. The fence is what keeps the field quiet.
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