An oft-used metaphor in discussing the topic of "Advaita" or "Nondual Spirituality" is the one of the Ocean and
the Wave being of single essence: Clearly, both are water.
This metaphor of ocean and
wave is a good one, but it falls short as a pointer to our True Nature, as when there is the appearance
of ocean and wave the two are obviously not appearing as separate, as
the top picture on the right shows.
Isn't that obvious?
Okay, now let's take a closer look. In the bottom picture we can see many single drops of ocean water. These drops really DO look separate, don't they??
Look closely at a wave and you see it as water but connected to the ocean. Now look closely at a single drop and you see it as separate.
That is the obvious perception; there IS separation between ocean and drop. While clearly both ARE water, the drop APPEARS as separate where the wave does not.
Now let's apply this metaphor to the human condition when the sense of separation is in full swing, as happens at around the age of two or so in virtually every human body-mind machine.
Obviously your body LOOKS to you and other people like it IS separated from the world around you, from other people, other objects. The assumption driven by this false sense of a separate I or M is, "I am this object in this sea of other objects." Isn't it? Take a look.... Isn't that your PERCEPTION?
And isn't that the "consensus reality" for all these hypnotized objects who now believe they are the case of who they are, whet the do and what they possess? Really look at this. Take some courage in hand and challenge even your most cherished assumption: I AM ME. Is that TRUE? Or just preconceived preconception and perception given by a lie? Most people never examine this notion of being a separate entity, in fact if you broach this tooic with most people they will steadfastly insist, I am ME and you can NOT tell me otherwise". Ignorance is amazingly dogmatic!
All this is pointing to is a distinguishing of FACT from assumptions, conceived separation and our cherished beliefs and opinions: Perception LIES to us. The mind sees separation where there is none in FACT. This is a product of a sense of separation that was born in you around the age of two. (Remember the phrase, the "Terrible Twos"?)
The upsets of a two year old in a tantrum arise from not only the disquieting sense that "I am separate" but also from the assumption that this separate "I" SHOULD be able to regain the Wholeness. That tantrum went on here for six decades! The bad news is YOU did not CREATE that false sense of being separated form the Wholeness (the Ocean of Love) so whatever you do to attain that wholeness will fail... but only unless it doesn't! The great GOOD news is whatever you do will not PREVENT the return to the Ocean, even if appears that it does! YOU as a hypnotized subject-assumed-entity with a false sense of being a separate thing, a drop apart from the ocean, can neither cause NOR prevent the dissolution of that false dreamlike insubstantial "I" as the Doer, the cause of what is.
Why? Because it IS false. The I is a transparency, it is Consciousness, the Light of the Being YOU REALLY are... APPEARING as separate but in FACT, no more separate from your essence as pure consciousness than that drop is a separate essence from ocean.
It's all water. It's all Consciousness.
It's all water. It's all Consciousness.
Consciousness is all there is. That is not a TRUTH, though; that statement is a POINTER.
Do not mistake the concept for what it points at. Do not mistake the finger pointing to the moon for the splendor of the moon.
