"A throne is only a bench covered in velvet" - is the message sent out to the good people of London city as they journey through the tubes.
Within our life we come across many facades - but the curious mind is interested in what lies behind. With more busyness it is not as easy to look deeper. Meditation practice helps us to look, see and think deeper.
To scratch beneath the surface of our existence - to not take things on face value - a throne is a powerful object - but is nothing other then a fancy box. The person who has ascended to a throne will one day descend. When we say a person has power, we simply give that person power through our thoughts and projections.
As Dylan wrote "even the President of the United State must sometimes have to stand naked".
One time a close friend of mine who was having a breakdown shared that their whole life had been built on a foundation of sand - it was a stunningly honest and acute perception. The sand was the materialistic props - which he realized had no power to deliver stability or happiness.
The velvet thrones in our life can appear real and true - we just have to take off the cover and view beneath.
Meditation practice helps to sharpen our eye to the world around us - to see and view deeper than the surface.
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