Golden Buddha

Inspiration: Per Marshal Action reveals the Golden Buddha.

In 1957 an entire Monastery in Thailand was being relocated by a group of monks. While moving a giant clay Buddha, they noticed a large crack in the clay. On closer investigation they discovered light emanating from the crack. They used hammers to chip away at the clay exterior to reveal the statue was in fact made of solid gold. Historians believe the Buddha had been covered with clay several hundred years earlier to protect it from destruction by an invading army. In the attack, all the monks were killed and it wasn’t until many years later that this great treasure was actually discovered.

Over the course of my life, layers of clay have covered my inner beauty ~ my Golden Buddha. Clay from my limited thinking, from my unconscious conditioning and from external influences. Eventually I become so laden with clay that I forget the Golden Buddha inside. Today let me investigate beneath the layers of clay to find my inner beauty.