The 7 Timeless Virtues of Enlightened Living
Symbol
Virtue
The Magnificent
Garden
Master your Mind
The Towering
Lighthouse
Follow your Purpose
The Sumo
Wrestler
Practise “Kaizen”
The pink Wire
cable
Live with Discipline
The gold
Stopwatch Respect your Time
The fragrant
Roses
Selflessly serve others
The path of
Diamonds
Embrace the present
These 7 Virtues, for
a life overflowing with inner peace, joy and a wealth of spiritual gifts, were
contained in a mystical fable. Every element of this fable embodies a timeless
principle for radiant living and has great depth of meaning. It
has a purpose and that the principles it symbolises are not only powerful –
they are highly practical.
Close your eyes and
picture the following scene in your mind's eye ….
You are
sitting in the middle of a magnificent, lush, green garden filled with the most
spectacular flowers you have ever seen. The environment is supremely tranquil
and silent. Savour the sensual delights of this garden and feel as if you have
all the time in the world to enjoy this natural oasis. As you look around you
see that in the centre of this magical garden stands a towering, red
lighthouse, six stories high. Suddenly, the silence of the garden is disturbed
by a loud creaking as the door at the base of the lighthouse opens.
Out
stumbles a nine-foot tall, nine-hundred pound Japanese sumo wrestler who
casually wanders into the centre of the garden. The Japanese sumo wrestler is
almost totally naked with the exception of a pink wire cable covering his
private parts. As this sumo wrestler starts to move around the garden, he finds
a shiny gold stopwatch which someone had left behind many years earlier. He
slips it on, and falls to the ground with an enormous thud. The sumo wrestler
is rendered unconscious and lies there, silent and still. Just when you think
he has taken his last breath, he awakens, perhaps stirred by the fragrance of
some fresh yellow roses blooming nearby. Energised, he jumps swiftly to his
feet and intuitively looks to his left. He is startled by what he sees. Through
the bushes at the very end of the garden, he observes a long winding path
covered by millions of sparkling diamonds. Something seems to instruct him to
take the path, and to his credit, he does. This path leads him down the road of
everlasting joy and eternal bliss.
Never
overlook the power of simplicity – this story may not be a sophisticated
discourse but there is a universe of sensibility in its message and a purity in
its purpose.
to be continued
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