I think the closest thing I can relate it to is getting caught in a big ocean wave. I can't tell up from down, I am struggling for air, gasping it in when and if I can, feeling the immense power of the wave and experiencing my complete and utter smallness. My mortality is held up and felt in a real sense. I am humbled.
Life does that. I think the lesson is to always realize that life is like the ocean, even when it is calm I must reamin in respect and humility to its power. At any moment it can clobber me. If my ego starts running the show and trying to resist the flow, life can crush me like a bug.
At any moment there is always a release valve and that moment is when I realize that there is nothing that can be done - I just have to come back to the essence and that is:
I just want peace.
From that all goodness flows.
My ego thinks that it can get peace from fighting and resisting. If the world would just conform to what I want then there would be peace. If the ocean would just conform to my needs then I could be happy.
What do I truly want in this moment?
Peace.
The happiness that has no cause comes from peace. The happiness that is not dependent on anything and therefore cannot be shaken comes from there.
To be there all I have to do is just let go of everything the mind is saying, let go of all the emotional alarms and trust life.
Trust life.
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