Reflections

WAVES: Our thoughts, feelings, pain, happiness and our ultimate selves are like the waves, arising and passing, coming and going. And so, we ride the wave while it lasts and celebrate the wonderful temporality.  As I watch the ocean waves I am reminded of the natural law of passing and perishing ---it brought in me the inner command of gratitude, equanimity and surrender. To be free of desire and free of aversion, to fathom the beauty and wisdom of impermanence.

In quantum physics, we learn that we are actually like light particles. We are made of tiny particles waves, there is no real solidity and permanence of objects. Even the ego, that which we refer to as 'I' is illusory. It is asked: How can one be miserable if this is the case of the world? Seems easy to understand in the intellectual level but we can't help but be lulled into the daily affairs of the world to take this in as a different perspective. After all, we experience the world beyond the physical plane and we are born and raised to the conditions we are in.

There is so much to learn in this world and life, but in our lifetime, we experience and witness deep suffering. But as I learned from the ocean waves, so long as one observes, remain aware with equanimity and wisdom of surrender, one will be capable of overcoming suffering.

My Insight: One moment of equanimity to the next is liberation moment to moment. The path of liberation is not in the past nor future. It is always in the present. Liberation is thought by thought, non-thought to non-thought, breath by breath, moment to moment.