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camping out on garret mt.
eating hot-dogs and beans
drinking cheap beer
<old german> cops use to chase us
never caught us
we use to see their badges
shining in the moon-light
-Tony F.
Mike Jenkins is a very good
writer on nonduality. The following is from his blog at
http://www.non-duality-blog.com/
Come in, the water’s lovely!
by admin on
The metaphor of the ocean and the wave is
often used in non-dual pointing and with good reason. It’s a
very powerful metaphor. It stands to illuminate the futility of
seeking and the delightful surprise that you already are what you
seek.
As separate individuals, we are much like
waves upon the ocean. But we are waves that have forgotten that
we are ocean. In this forgetting, we long for the ocean, to have
the ocean, to be the ocean.
The waves can also stand to represent
experience. Feelings of sadness, craving, irritation, longing,
frustration, anger, despair, hopelessness. The wave can represent
other people, our jobs and careers, our past, the imagined
future, all stories. In essence, the wave represents all
appearances here, including you. You and the story of you is
simply another appearance here, another wave upon the ocean.
For many of us, living life as if we are
separate from that which we long for can be painful. The wave
desperately longs to have or be the ocean and because it is
convinced it has to find it somewhere, because it looks
everywhere for the ocean, it never finds the ocean. It never
finds the essence of itself, because it’s essence is not
lost. It never finds the ocean outside of itself, because it is
already the ocean.
So, is there anything the separate wave can
do to realise it is already the ocean? This is a tricky question
because one cannot pick out the ocean as anything distinct. The
ocean is all there is. You could call the ocean ‘being’
and being is all there is. Everything you see, hear, feel, taste,
smell, touch and think is being, is the ocean. So, a part (you)
cannot really look a the whole. Whenever a part of the whole
looks at the whole, there is always separation. There is subject
looking at object. There is only subject, arising as all objects,
including the object ‘you’, ‘mind’ and your
story.
The separate wave looks out at the vast
ocean and imagines the ocean is something different than itself.
As separate individuals, we read about freedom, wholeness, being,
non duality, oneness and we imagine it to be some ‘thing’
other than what we are.
If you do look however, you will see that
this solid, separate entity you take to be yourself, your sense
of ‘I’ is not solid at all. It comes and goes
throughout the day. And in deep sleep it vanishes all together.
So, this separate you is not a fixed constant. It too is
constantly happening, constantly rising and falling away in the
space of here and now. You are the space of here and now (the
ocean, being, oneness, wholeness) but that space cannot look at
itself.
You can however look at the structure and
edifice of separation and that can sometimes bring about the
realisation, the seeing that the wave is and always was 100%
water, 100% ocean. It may then be seen that you cannot not be
what you long for, that this is never not this, being is never
not happening.
http://www.non-duality-blog.com/
we would go to canizzaros
and benny would give us
warm cream and jelly doughnuts
such memories I am
-Tony F.