I’ve begun meditating on the ocean. Just staring at the sea from my window...scheduled twice daily, or anytime that I get stressed. It is so damn beautiful, that it’s all I want to do any ways.
Lessons I’m learning from the sea:
-it is constantly amazing without any effort or consciousness
-it’s movements never end. There is no such thing as stillness in the ocean...”the only constant is change.”
-nothing is separate. One wave crashes the shore and then begins to slip back into the sea. But the next wave comes crashing in and scoops back up part of the first wave that was going out. Rather than separate waves coming in and going out, it’s really more like a mixing bowl of water and the ocean’s energy is always folding in the molecules.
-waves are simply a gathering up of energy. They rise upon the surface of the source. Sometimes they crash dashingly into the shore. Sometimes they intersect with other surrounding waves blending, shifting, and changing directions. Sometimes they look like they’re going to be large and powerful, but then fizzle out half way in. Waves do not cling or attach to outcomes. They gather energy and form. They rise up and flow, intersect with other waves and change directions, or crash into rocks before reaching the shore. They never stiffen, resist, or complain. They only meld and flow with whatever comes before them or merged into them.
-people are exactly like waves, but with egos. We are simply a gathering up of energy, but then we begin to identify as separate from our source. We make plans and chose directions. We stake claims. When we intersect with the flow of other waves (people, events, rocks) we become very perturbed over the shift in the direction of energy rather than flowing with it. We cause all of our own suffering by identifying as separate and my making up what “should” happen in our heads.
