Gumballs

One day during the summer of 1987 I was meditating on the white sandy beaches of Antigua. It was 6am and the sun was just coming up painting the sky beautiful shades of pink, orange and blue I never since seen again. As I closed my eyes and began to listen to my heart beat a thought crept into my subconscious: Is there a more perfect candy than a gumball?

It was an epiphany of thought and inner self-knowing. Gumballs are a perfect candy, a complete round sphere of tasty goodness. What shape is more perfect that a circle or sphere, not a square or triangle, that’s for sure! A sphere has no edges, no beginning or end, to calculate its dimensions you need the number Pi, which in of itself is a mystery.

As I listened to the waves melodically massage the sand I could feel myself slipping deeper into enlightenment, and the more I thought about gumball flavors. Unlike other candy which varies the flavor throughout the candy, a gumball’s flavor is evenly distributed across the sphere. Because of the gumball’s perfect shape, no matter how you put it in your mouth your taste buds will enjoy the same flavor experience. With so many unique and exotic flavors: Peaches & Cream, Grape, Cherry, Green Apple, etc. all candy lovers will be able to locate a flavor that will please their palette.

As the sun continued to rise above the ocean I approached the 3rd stage of my Tri-Level Meditation. I pondered that there was more to a gumball than just its flavors and shape, one must also consider that gumballs come in so many perfect colors. This is by no accident, all of the beautiful colors of nature can be found in gumballs. Yellow Gumballs, Pink Gumballs, Orange Gumballs, Red Gumballs, Blue Gumballs, White Gumballs, Green Gumballs, etc., all the colors of the physical universe – truly a perfect creation.

However, just like the secrets of the subconscious, there is more to the gumballs than just those colors. Looking deep into my soul I could see Shimmer Silver Gumballs, Shimmer Lavender Gumballs and perhaps most exotic of them all: Shimmer Powder Blue Gumballs! Just then a feeling came over my body that I had never felt before; I had transcended beyond my Tri-Level Meditation into a new more powerful 4th Level. A sense of calm and peace came over me, I could hear everything around me at once and I was in tune with it all.

Thanks to my Gumball Philosophy, that morning on a white beach in Antigua, I had achieved Zen.