You Have Potential: Explore it; Explode it!
During the time of World War II, a small airplane was discarded in a tribal village. The people of the village were illiterate and had never seen a plane before. They saw this strange contraption with wheels and associated it with the only other non living that they had seen with wheels, a bullock cart. They decided that this was some form of a bullock cart and began to use it as a bullock cart by yoking animals to it.
A young man of that village, who had read up to some extent, and knew about machines, saw the plane and said: 'This is not a bullock cart. Because it has got gears and wheels, it is more like a tractor.' He showed the villagers how to use it as a tractor.
After a few months, a tourist who had worked in the air force came to that village, looked at the airplane and said: 'This is neither a bullock cart, nor a tractor. This is an airplane used in wars.'
This man tinkered with the machine and got it to fly. The villagers looked on in amazement and celebrated.
In this world, most of us consider ourselves as bullock carts. Some consider themselves as tractors. Only very few correctly understand the human mind body system as a powerful airplane and use it as such. Most of us lack awareness of who we are. Only the enlightened are aware of the full potential of the mind body system of the human being.
Only a person who has become enlightened, can express and share the alchemy of bliss that arises from realization of the human potential. Experience is one thing. Enlightenment is different. When we are young, we touch the fire in the oven. Immediately on touching it, we come to know that the fire in the oven will burn and harm us. We touch the flame in the wick of the candle; we come to know that even the flame in the wick of the candle will also burn and harm us.
After touching each fire, experiencing it burn and learning that all fires will burn, is knowledge. Just by touching the fire only once and coming to know that it burns and immediately realizing that 'all fires will burn us' is experience. On seeing a man suffering after touching a fire and grasping the fact 'fire will burn us' is wisdom.
Wisdom does not depend on age. We need no qualifications. We just need to be aware.