The Ocean of Life
Here we are, each seemingly a small drop
In the infinite ocean of life on Earth.
We see ourselves and others with a
Multitude of separate features; this or that, with
Our five senses, which segregate rather than integrate.
From birth to death, always doing.
By living in the world through the body, identifying
Ourselves with it, we become subject to past memories,
Backgrounds, cultures, patterns of thinking or feeling.
The result of a highly developed egotistical mind.
Fear, consciously or not, dominates our life.
But we are not our body, nor subject to birth or death.
In reality, we are no-thing, and there is nothing to do.
In awareness of just being, the mind is decluttered
And flooded with the light of emptiness.
The world of illusions is left behind.
Fear, too, has gone, and suffering ends.
We are at peace, here and now, needing nothing.
When we stay open, still, silent and mindless,
We die to the world, and the universe
Becomes our body. Freedom is complete.
The self-seeking has been replaced by Self-awareness.
This seems to be a point of nothingness;
But this absolute consciousness is full of energy.
This energy is the life force. Magnetic waves of
Differing amplitude and frequency, pulsating in rhythm,
Harmonised, synchronised, throughout the universe.
This is the irresistible nature of life, held by
Love, the Creator, in an infinite dimension.
The ocean of life is all.
We do not live a life. Together, we are life itself.
Bob Morley, June 2023