• Sep 14, 2019

The Story Amazing story of the Golden Buddha….Wat Tramit

“In the mid ‘50s, a monastery was to be relocated to make room for a new highway. The monks arranged for a crane to come and move a 10 feet tall clay Buddha to its new location. When the crane started to lift the statue, it was much heavier than expected and it began to crack. Wanting to protect the priceless shrine, the monks lowered it back down and decided to wait until the next day to bring more powerful equipment. To add insult to injury, the rain came in, so the monks lovingly covered the statue with tarps to keep the moisture away. In the dark of night, the head monk took his flashlight and went out to make sure the Buddha was adequately covered. When the light of the flashlight shone into the crack of the clay, he saw a glimmer, a reflection of something underneath that shroud of clay. He immediately started to carefully chisel away shards of clay to find that the glimmer grew brighter. Hours later, when all the clay had been removed, he was in the presence of a Buddha made of solid gold! The story behind this ‘clay Buddha’ says that over three hundred years ago, the Burmese army planned an attack to invade Thailand. At the time, the country was known as Siam. The Siamese monks were in possession of the most amazing Buddha statue. The statue is over 10 feet tall and weighs in excess of 2 1/2 tons. It is made of solid gold and is valued today at $200 million. The monks were determined to protect the shrine that meant so much to them. While it was priceless to them for reasons that transcend money, they knew that the Burmese would stop at nothing to steal the statue because of its tremendous monetary value. They covered the Golden Buddha with 12 inches of clay  knowing that the warriors would totally ignore it and think it worthless.  adly, the monks were slaughtered in the invasion and the secret of the Golden Buddha stayed hidden for two centuries. The Buddha itself though, remained safe.” (”The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield)

Each one of us is like the Golden Buddha. Hidden inside our clay body is a person, a treasure of great eternal value!