The Gold Is Our Spirit

In the mid 1700s in Sam which is now Thailand they were being invaded by the Burmese. The monks had a beautiful huge gold, pure gold statue of the Buddha. They covered it with plaster and clay so it looked like this kind of ordinary old statue. It was over two centuries that it remained intact. So here's what this story has me reflecting on regularly...that the gold is our spirit and the gold is that awareness and love that really is living through all of us.