There are no prophets, because everyone is a prophet, 24/7, there is no escape.
And we are all receiving constant messages from every blade of grass to every homeless person camping out on the street. Everything is the teacher.
Because of this, Jesus' act of washing the leper's feet touches on a deeper reality that cannot be conveyed by the moniker of "his or her holiness the Dali L" Because everyone wears than moniker. Every thing has that moniker. Even the word moniker has that moniker:-) And if you think you are special, well, you are, but so is every one and every thing. So go take whatever title or entitlement you have, and go screw yourself, because you are God.
As such, the human condition is one of discrimination and separation from this unity. Where the rubber hits the road is how we cut ourselves off from the divine because we do not want to feel the anguish of the homeless, or the senseless repetition of the TikTok marketplace. And being overwhelmed with stuff hurts, and it hurts to have to say "NO."
To study the self is to forget the self. And when you study the myriad of messages coming in you realize that you don't exist. At least not in the way you think you do. Then all the distinctions fade away, life, death, time, space, and you just float around all day in the cosmic blob.
