Heaven is a chair

[sourgoingmad]

If I were to look at a chair, it would be no more than that... a chair. How simple, how terrible. All that I have lived that makes me FEEL a certain way in relation to the chair is what blinds me to the heavenly nature of the chair. The chair is heaven, yet I don't see it because I've lived in the world for 22 years.
Tomorrow I will see a chair, and if I have succeeded in my quest. I will see heaven. If my ego is not there to distort my perception of the chair/heaven I will have succeeded. If I feel separate from the chair I will have failed. If I am not the chair I will have failed. If the chair is just a chair, and not all encompassing beauty, bliss truth and consciousness I will have failed. If my looking at the chair is a conscious willful decision I will have failed. If being is all I experience, I will have succeeded. If my thumb is cut off and I suffer physically with a spooky detachment I will have succeeded. If my best friend dies and for one second I wish he/she had not, I will have failed. If I am not the walrus I have accomplished nothing.
Who is the buddha? You are the buddha.
The buddha statue in my altar must be firewood waiting for a cold night.