According
to online blog report, he addressed the motive behind the pictures he
posted saying it was ideally to preach about cherishing life.
Read excerpts below:
Sleeping in a Coffin?
Point
of correction, I do not sleep in a casket, I sleep on my bed, it’s big
and comfy, I only lay in my “casket”when I do my meditation because it
helps me to be focused, it tells me more about the imminence of death.
My casket is a reminder. It wakes me up from slumber. It tells me, “guy,
you have got little or no time left, wake up, be creative and work”.
Of
course, when I read some of the comments of my people, I know a good
number of us are ill-informed about quite a number of things. I think it
is more of what the casket represents that shocks my people and they
start reading meanings into it, depending on their level of
understanding. But one question is, what if the same wood that was used
to build the casket was used to make a sofa chair? May be, all the
hullabaloo about me sitting on a chair wouldn’t have been there in the
first place? So when people vocalize their disapproval of my message via
the image of a casket, I understand that they do that from a position
of Fear, fear of what the casket represents – Death. So whatever people
fear they antagonize. But, the fact that I have reminded myself and even
you about death does not really change a thing. It won’t draw your
death near, and it won’t even shift it away. All it does is simply a
reminder, to thread carefully.
MY Coffin sensitizes
Only
if a kidnapper can buy a casket for himself today, and begin to lay
inside, constantly reminding himself that death looms even as he goes
about kidnapping and extorting money from families. It’s possible to
realize at a point that all his activities will one day end up in a
casket, and there, his flesh will rotten. The same is applicable to all
evil doers. They need to realize, like in the famous book, “Waiting for
Godot” that the world is bizarre and empty, as vanity plus vanity will
always end up in vanity. Crime no dey pay jor.
My Coffin preaches:
Take
a critical look at my image inside the coffin, it speaks volume. I
always lay in my casket with my cap, glasses, shoes on. I’m always well
dressed. Yes, it is always done intentionally to tell us that your glory
disappears with all the wealth you must have acquired the very day you
go to that coffin. Your glory-your cap goes with you, your vision-your
glasses goes with you; your struggle-your shoes goes with you. The only
thing left of you is your history and your legacy. The crux of the
message is to leave a legacy, so we can live forever, not in the
physical, but in people’s memories. As for me, I will live forever. You
dey vex???
We are blind because of our fears
Who
knows what any of us sees from the privacy of our own blindness? Make
no mistakes, each of us is blind in a particular way, just as each of us
is sighted uniquely. Consider how each of us is blinded by what we
fear. If we fear heights, we are blind to the humility vast perspectives
bring. If we fear Passion, we are blind to the comfort of Oneness. If
we fear change, we are blind to the abundance of life. If we fear death,
we are blind to the mystery of the unknown. And since to fear is
something thoroughly human, to be blind is unavoidable. It is what each
of us must struggle to overcome. To a large degree, I have overcome my
fear of death, all I ask God, is that may my death not be painful. I’m
sure some of you know how my cousin who was killed by kidnappers died an
agonizing death. You see, in the course of our lives, we all stumble
and struggle, repeatedly, in and out of relationship, in and out of the
grace of the hidden wholeness of life, most of us struggle and stumble
with the uncertainty of tomorrow as Nigerians. I have discovered that in
the course of our lives, and as blind children, we may never know what
we are called to be until we have learned what we are called to become
by simply overcoming our fears. In life, death is the most important
reminder of all activities. Abi you dey vex???
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