The Stairs, The Light, The Window, and The TV
The Stairs, The Light, The Window, The TV & Table
I was holding my baby nephew who is only 8 months old, he is the cutest little thing. Lately his new thing is that he likes to point at things.
While I was holding him, he started the point at these 5 things the stairs, the light, the window, the TV and the living room table. In my mind, I didn’t think anything of it, because he loves to point at things now. But when he pointed at these things, it resonated in me as if it was something I should pay attention to. I started thinking about these things and these are the thoughts that came to my mind about these objects.
1) The Stairs: The stairs reminded me of the story in the old testament Genesis 28:11-19; where Jacob saw a ladder that was connected to heaven. Jacob saw angels ascending and descending on it. Then he heard God say that the land where he stands on will be given to him and that God will be with him.
The stairs is symbolic to the gateway to heaven, to the Way, to the Path, to enlightenment, to nirvana.
The connection to the Source, to the Way is already here, its within. When we seek and walk in the Way we will experience peace, love, joy. The Way will secure us and give us what we need. We have this connection, we connect with the stairs when we pray and meditate.
2) The Light: When we walk on the Path, the Light will turn on within us and we will become a light to the world. It awakens the Buddha Nature, the Likeness of God in us. Our mind becomes illuminated with the Truth, the Light reveals us all the things we need to know. The Light opens our mind to the infinite Wisdom that existed before the ages.
3) The Window: is symbolic to the window of our eyes, which brings light or darkness into the house which is our soul or mind. The things we watch becomes food to our mind. We can either feed our soul, our True Self, or we can feed our ego, our False Self. Its like food, if we eat food that is not healthy our physical will suffer, if we eat healthy our physical will feel great! We can fill our mind with good things or we can fill our mind with not good things that can delude our mind with negativity or delusion which will try to divert us from the Truth. We need to be careful with what we watch or listen to on TV or on the radio. Feeding your mind with good things will create less delusion within your mind.
4) The TV: This one is similar to the third one. The TV is symbolic with our mind. What are the things playing in our mind? Are the channels of our mind playing good programs, or are they filled with anger, lust, pride, judgment, hate, inadequate feeling, depressing emotional movies? We need to be the Master of your TV set, be the Master of our mind, be like the FCC, control the content in your head. Let the Dharma help you.
5) The Table: On the table I saw my wallet laid out. In my wallet I was able to see my ID’s, credit cards, money, and business cards. The wallet was symbolic to mankind’s false identity and the cares for money or any worldly valuable (things that are not permanent).
Jesus said, Matthew 6:19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.” Jesus also said in Matthew 19:21 “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven (within you); and come, follow Me.”
Basically give up your false identity and worldly desires and passions, and put on your new identity which is your True Self, the Buddha Nature, The Christ Nature, the Likeness of God, The Enlightened Nature, and follow the Pure Way.
What is our main goal in life? To be rich? To be a successful person? It is good to have ambitions, but if it prevents you from walking the Pure Path then it is not good. Do not identify yourself with what you have. Use your life to be a change in the world, because everything you accumulate will stay here and be passed on to the next person. It is better to save a million souls then to make a million dollars. Or if you make a million dollars, use some of it to help the poor, the hungry, the unfortunate people.
Well, this was something that talked to my life and I just had to share it. I hope it blessed you as it blessed me.
Take care and be well, namaste!
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