A letter to a friend:
“L……,” this is a very simple example but also amazingly accurate.
All there is, is an infinite ocean of Consciousness manifesting as zillions of all sorts of different waves.
One of the waves “wakes up,” looks around and goes “I AM the infinite ocean of Consciousness!!!” “The infinite ocean of Consciousness dwells within me as me!”
This is a correct revelation.
And then the “awake wave” takes an honest look around and sees all the other waves, whether they are bus driver waves, fungi waves, water fountain waves, pebble waves, Putin waves or asparagus waves, are in the exact same condition as it is. They are all unique expressions of the infinite ocean of Consciousness.
How can the “Awake Wave” honestly say that the infinite ocean of Consciousness being a “L…… Wave” is oceaning wrong or should be oceaning in some way other than it is?
Whether a wave “wakes up” and recognizes it is an expression of the infinite ocean of Consciousness or not, the so-called “not wake wave” is still as much an expression of the ocean of Consciousness as the “awake wave.”
There is nothing wrong with one wave sharing with another wave skillful and effective views or technologies that may improve the experience of Being a Wave, but it does that within the context of knowing the other wave is always already as much an expression of the ocean of Consciousness as it is. Whatever the “awake wave” shares, it knows the other wave does not need improving, fixing, changing, transformation, purification, practices, secret teachings, special knowledge or awakening to be as it already is.
The great sage Ramana Maharshi said, “Be as you are.”
You already are the infinite ocean of Consciousness and you are also “L …… “
No problem
Not two
“Perhaps you have noticed the amazing paradox; as we recognize our inherent personal powerlessness, ‘new power flows in.’ … Once we know ourselves to be Ocean in the form of wave, we become free to be ourselves in a way we never dreamed possible. It is as if we had spent our life driving with the emergency brake on and suddenly it is off… The enduring paradox and wonder of a spiritual awakening is the return of power. But this power has a completely different feel to it. It is impersonal. Without the bondage of self, the power of the Ocean plays out without resistance.” ~ Wayne Liquorman in The Way of Powerlessness
🙏❤️🙏,
Tom
The Heart of Conscious Living 
Lovely but even knowing this, feeling this, experiencing this, the feeling of separation is still there, as an organic biological being with it’s constant angst, it’s biological drives, its selfishness, its competitiveness, its “me first” mindset, is still there and can’t be bypassed, no matter what magical words you hypnotise yourself with. The standard easy answer is “all that you’ve mentioned is illusory”. Again how lovely but it doesn’t assuage anything.
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Yes, it is the ocean doing ALL of this. Fully love and accept yourself just the way you are now as you already are This. . And then a deep release and relaxation may happen and something is recognized. And it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t. You are still This.
“You,” as the wave, can’t make the shift happen because it is the “shift,” the “waking up” that is really illusionary as nothing happens. Nothing needs to happen. Actually Something stops happening.
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