When Jesus encountered a group of people who were stoning a woman, he said, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Jesus is speaking from a state of nonseparation here; he is not seeing himself as better than the woman being stoned, no matter what deed she has committed. What he’s saying is that nobody is without sin. Sin means missing the mark; nobody is without misunderstandings. We’ve all done things we wish we hadn’t. We have all acted in less than enlightened ways. We are none of us different from anyone else. For this reason, when we operate from the point of view of
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