Surfing The Wave

The truth is never not the truth. It is always abiding. It is alive.

I can never know the truth. I cannot possess the truth. I can only feel its presence.

I like to think of the truth as that feeling of balance as I surf a wave. Sometimes I am on the board in complete balance, feeling the power of the wave and the freedom of it. Sometimes I have fallen off the board and there is no possibility of balance - I am a small speck in the turbulent wave of life.

Sometimes I can feel the imminent loss of balance. It is because my mind has gotten in the way.

The wave of life is immediate. It is happening now.

In order to respond to the shifting power of the wave and stay in balance I have to move with it. That means that I also have to be in the present moment - I have to be immediate. I can't be lost in thought, I have to "attend" to the wave.

All the things that come at us in life, all the changes, all the challenges are shifts in the wave.

Those challenges may seem to be "out there" but our relatedness to them is internal.

In order to stay in balance we must attend to our internal state of consciousness.

Or we come off the board.

Wipe out.