THE STORY OF THE GOLDEN BUDDHA

LET THE TRUE YOU SHINE THROUGH

Over three hundred years ago, the Burmese army planned to invade neighbouring country Thailand, known as Siam at the time. The Siamese monks were in possession of the most amazing solid Golden Buddha statue – over 10 feet tall and weighing in excess of 2 1/2 tons.

The monks were determined to protect the shrine that meant so much to them. They covered the Golden Buddha with many layers of clay knowing that the warriors would totally ignore it and think it worthless. Sadly, the monks were slaughtered in the invasion and the secret of the Golden Buddha stayed hidden for centuries.

During the mid-1950s the huge clay statue began to crack due to heat and drought. When some monks arrived to investigate, they shined a flashlight into the largest of the cracks. What they saw surprised everyone. Deep under the grey clay was the gleam of gold.

The monks started to carefully chisel away to find that the glimmer grew brighter. When all the clay had been removed…they were in the presence of a Buddha made of solid gold.

The story of the Golden Buddha is a powerful metaphor for the potential that lies within every individual.

Just as the monks disguised the beauty of the Golden Buddha in order to protect it during dangerous times, we cover our own goodness as we encounter a challenging world. We cover over the gold as we seek the approval of others, looking to them to measure our worth – to determine whether we are good enough, smart enough, successful enough.

Adding layer after layer to protect ourselves, we become identified with our coverings, believing ourselves to be separate, threatened, and deficient. This becomes our identity. Yet even when we cannot see the gold, the light and love of our true nature cannot be dimmed, tarnished, or erased. It calls to us daily through our longing for connection, our urge to understand reality, our delight in beauty, our natural desire to help others.

When we start to love and accept ourselves for who we are and take responsibility for our lives and start to consciously create our reality – that is like chiselling away the clay. All that gold waiting to shine…

Reference: Tara Brach, Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness

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