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His followers asked Jesus:

Do you want us to fast?

How should we go about praying?

Should we give to charity?

Should we abstain from certain foods?

Jesus answered:

Do not tell lies.

Do not do what you hate.

Under heaven, everything is revealed—

Nothing hidden will fail to appear.

No, nothing covered will fail to be revealed.

Meditation

As we know from the canonical Gospels, religious authorities questioned the disciples of Jesus concerning their failure to observe basic purity laws. In answer to fairly concrete questions, Jesus offers more examples of the thinking in the first five sayings—all is one. What does this have to do with fasting, praying, charity, and diet?

The radical shift that Jesus purposes—from orthopraxis (right-doing) to orthodoxy (right-thinking) has become such a basic feature of Western individualism that we can miss how radical this reorientation was.

For more on the same subject, see saying #14.