The Myth of the Buddha

The story that I want to teach from is actually a timeless story, and it's not so much focused on the moment. We kind of need that sometimes to step out of the immediate dilemmas and conflicts and worries and hopes and so forth and have a bigger picture. For example, it says in the Bible that a rich man is less likely to go to heaven than a camel passed through an eye of the needle, right? You've heard that. It turns out the eye of an needle is actually the name of a very small gate in the wall that surrounds Jerusalem. And we keep telling them because they resonate in a different way in the heart and mind in a symbolic and mythological