I think this video animation is beautiful and the person who created it must have a deep appreciation for beauty and matters of heart.
I hope you’ll enjoy it too!
Why include this in my blog? I think it’s appropriate as a ten minute vacation, and I think there is a spiritual lesson in this story. Children often come into life with an awareness of higher realms of truth. Then the training begins! We are fed all kinds of limiting self-definitions and ideas as part of “growing up.”
As we mature we find out that what we have been taught by school, media, advertising and even loving parents, isn’t all there is to know. In fact lasting happiness very often is the result of un-learning much if not practically all we have been taught.
As a child you may have had the feeling in your heart to be creative, or to do something beautiful, or to help others, and people may have said you are not practical. And that you have to watch-out for “number 1″ instead. You may feel at times as if you are in a movie set filled with props and actors who live as if they are robots who never achieve lasting fulfillment.
For me, the teddy bear, represents our highest aspirations, or God. The child is you or me in this world of dreams and nightmares. The world is like the tree which is built of failed dreams and broken hearts and it’s delusions are so complex, big, and scary that almost nobody would challenge them. And it’s never really what it appears to be. The mother in the first scene represents the common reason of the masses: “Go to bed! Stop playing with your toy! You have to grow up and learn to take yourself more seriously. Life is not supposed to be fun!”
Jesus said, “let the dead bury their dead.”
Like this child, we must overcome our fears, and cling to what we know is ours (righteousness, faith, and love). No matter how many thoughts come into the mind to say, “don’t be a dreamer,” or “why can’t you be like everyone else?” we must learn to follow our heart feelings in calmness.
Live, love, and smile. Cling to what you know is right and never believe you can’t live your dreams and realize ultimate joy in your life. And like the boy, we must be willing to take risks, to follow our intuition, and overcome our own obstacles.
We’ll never wake up from our dream of limitations and suffering, until we are clear enough in our devotion (to our highest aspirations) to take the leap of faith not once, but over and over as needed.
It’s a dream I tell you, it is a dream! Live in fine attunement with your own highest beliefs. What we see before us, is usually not the big picture. Truth will prevail in the end. If you have done your best for all concerned, you have done all you can do. Let God take care of the rest.
‘Yato dharma, tato jaya,’ proclaim the Indian scriptures: ‘Where there is righteousness, there is victory.’ From “The Path” by Swami Kriyananda.
Please share your thoughts below, I look forward to hearing from you.
turiya
