Spongy Buddha.

Buddha was deep in meditation, blissful slow ecstasy was flowing through his being, he lost all awareness of time, space, body, mind and soul. Slowly the high vibe started ebbing and he felt immense pain in his physical being, he felt he was burning in flames, his throat felt dry and lips felt chapped, all within a few moments.Eventually all the ecstasy turned into pain. He forced his eyes opened and found a little fawn, separated from his mother,  weak with exhaustion, hunger and thirst, he collapsed right into Buddhas lap.Buddha took him to his cave, gave him water and food and slowly it healed and grew into a playful doe, that attracted several other deers into the vihara.

One night he was meditating under his favorite Banyan tree, it was a full moon night, ecstasy was flowing into his beings, dropping like cool nectar of the silvery moon. He was jolted out of his reverie by some unknown gripping fear, he felt fear creating walls around him, he felt animosity and hostility he opened his eyes to find that a pack of wolves have surrounded him from all sides and were circling around him, inching closer. Buddha understood the cause behind his physical body communicating fear to him. He mentally commanded Ananda to carry a burning torch towards him. Ananda understood the emergency and ran out with a torch and staff, seeing him coming close the wolves retreated.

It was the fag end of summer; a thunderstorm announced the arrival of the first rain. Buddha in his meditative state savoured each and every drop and drenched himself to the core, He became the rain and dropped with joyous abundance over crops, fields, forests and parched lands. He felt the ecstasy of the earth and loose soil flowing with tiny rivulets, joining bigger streams. He became one with the celebration of Mother Earth.Again the joy was halted by severe stinging on his neck, back and arms. The ants have made a home in his hair as he sat still for weeks together, now the sudden pouring rain forced them out and they started to bite and sting in a frenzy to save themselves.

Buddha felt pain, but he decided to get to the core of these repeated events. As he went deeper he understood the cause. When he meditated and assimilated with the divine, he dropped all barriers. One has to be free of all resistance and denial to be one with the creator. Anything we resits creates barriers to achieving that oneness. While he assimilated with the rain, fragrant morning spring breeze, birds chirping in his Vihara, silent nights of the forest, stillness of a snake with full belly, playfulness of gushing streams; he also dropped all barriers that allowed pain, anger, hostility and suffering from other beings to assimilate with him.When he is opening himself and saying yes to all things perfect and beautiful he needs to have the same openness and acceptance for all the suffering, pain and other undesirable things.Only then all barriers can truly be dropped. When we stop resisting the bad we also unknowingly open ourselves to the pure and beautiful.When 'No' drops from your state, the Existence says yes to everything you do.

He understood that divine, the loving creator of all sees no barrier, no distinction, everything is pure everything is the reflection of his love.When he has no judgments of good and bad , right or wrong,his
beings cannot attain him till they drop all barriers and judgments and accept whatever comes their way with unconditional love and openness. That's when the ultimate transformation takes place.
Only then can a being attain true union with the creator.