Become a Wave
“Enlightenment
for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that
moment, all fear of death disappears.”
Thich
Nhat Hann
If
you're an “ocean person,” you love to sit on a beach and watch
the waves roll, rise, crest, and crash. Some waves crest early, while
still some distance away, and without a lot of fanfare. They make it
to the shore as a gentle splash. Some waves build and build, rise
high above the surface, curl and fold in on themselves, and wash hard
and fast onto the sand. They may unexpectedly douse you when you
thought you were too far away from the surf to get wet. Regardless of
height, and force, and speed, all of them end up sliding back into
the sea as water and foam.
Just
as a wave is always water, whether it crests low or high, we humans
are composed of the very same material. Whether we are black, or
white, or brown, Asian, European, African, Australian, Middle
Eastern, North or South American, or Slavic; wherever we reside on
this planet, we are made of the same cells and chromosomes, our
blood runs red, and we share a common strand of DNA. We come from
the same source, and return to the same source, just as the wave, foam and water, returns to the sea.
When we realize these
two truths—that we are all the same, and we all return to the same
ground of being—perhaps we will give up the notion of us and them,
we will lay down our weapons and our ideologies, our perceptions of
high and low, right and wrong, and relax into the ocean of love and
acceptance that surrounds us. That is enlightenment. I pray for that day. I hope you do,
too.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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