THE PLANK

Ask yourself “Who am I?”

No, I mean it. Close your eyes, take three deep breaths, and actually ask this question.

Target this question to the soul that you are and to the ether from which you are derived. 

Ask verbally if you will, or ask from your heart’s voice, if you know what I mean.

Seek answers in whichever form it most easily comes to you: a thought, a revelation, maybe an image.

Try understand what the answer meant.

Too often we are busy figuring out our identities as a human being. Way too often.

It isn’t incorrect, in fact it is relevant, in ways.

However, only as long as our identity as a human leads us to question our identity as a spirit.

If you are wishful enough, perhaps you shall find that identity.

Imagine all your life you were a large plank. You were in a wilderness, a polished piece of wood, beautiful in its craftsmanship, among the different

(and differently beautiful) wilderness around you. You spend several years as a plank, trying to be the best plank, the most loved plank or the like.

You see people struggling with their issues, with identity crisis, with ailments, with queries: with the quest.

You wonder why your life is perfect. Or, you wonder similarly: ‘Why am I a plank? How do I become a better plank? I wish to be a plank that saves people from drowning in the sea’ Oh yes, you could be very caring, very spiritual and very certain.

All set and done, you are a plank. Yes, you are certain.

But, then, one fine day, someone decides to raise a wall in the middle of your perfect wilderness. They pick you up and install you on the wall, viola! Now you are a DOOR! “What!”, you wonder, “all this while I was so sure I WAS a plank, but no! Turns out I am a door!” THAT is a whole new DIMENSION. It is something you couldn’t have imagined. You imagined all greatness as a plank. Perhaps you even imagined one day you would become a golden plank, or a famous plank. But no, not anymore. You have, so to say, evolved into something from where there is no going back. You are in what they call ‘a new dimension’. Suddenly, you are a door.

But what else changes? Well, a plank, a lower dimensional being, has a ‘function’, a door, on the other hand, has a ‘relevance’. A door is interdependent on the wall. What’s a door without a wall but a fallen angel!

So now you are a door. You have a wall you are fixed to. you lead people into a room where they find shade and comfort. You lead people into protection and joy. You not just have a ‘function’ you are ‘relevant’ to all existence (well you ALWAYS were, but now you SEE IT).

To al those who have metamorphosed into a Door, congratulations. To all the planks out there, perhaps this article is a door of sorts! (Do you see what I am saying?)

Anyway, there are points to ponder and dimensions to seek.

What shall happen if some day that wall is fell?

You can’t be a plank anymore because you know you are more than that. You can’t, however, be a door, standing in the middle of the wilderness, opening from no where to no where! A door is nothing without a wall, who is nothing without 'a something' that it demarcates. Thus I would say EACH ONE of us is interdependent on each one of us, it is only a matter of which dimension we are in, that we perceive the level of interdependence. And the aim is to be ONE with all, i.e. when all of us realise we are all deeply and intricately, ONE. Who knows unto which tenth dimension we need to be ‘awakened’ to, to achieve it. That isn’t something we need to bother about, however. What we do need to dwell upon is “what/who is the wall for you next evolution.”

Good luck!