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has lost much of the power to put the words of Jesus into practice. It has become a house of lifeless rituals, a whitewashed tomb. There may come a day when human efforts bring an end to such social evils, but there is one social vice...

all the Sabbath laws. They kept all their feasts and all their eating laws, but Jesus rebuked them for being like whitewashed tombs when he saw them. The meaning of this verse is that their outside and inside are different (Matthew 23:27...

sin outwardly. Jesus pointed out the sin of the hearts of the Jews, calling the scribes and Pharisees lawless and whitewashed tombs (Matthew 23:27, 28). They said they believed in the word of God, but their hearts were filled with sins...

talking about when in that Zen monastery, yeah, over in the north of England, just sitting down, just watching a whitewashed wall. And because I've been meditating enough, I knew how to just watch without thinking, and seeing the whole...