Yogananda: “I am the Bubble, Make Me the Sea”
By Michael Erlewine
Am I the ocean.
Or the boat?
Do I swim,
Or do I float?
The above is a poem I wrote and my two cents is that we float in the ocean in our boat until we can swim.
What am I talking about?
Perhaps the above poem as vague as it is gives us a better sense rather than to further qualify it. We might be better off not getting more specific if the remaining vague checks more of the boxes right now.
We are all trying to balance these two forces in living this life.
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For me, the lure and promise of the dharma has been to get me out of my head, since I was lost in endless thinking like a runaway freight train, and instead ground me in my gut, my feelings, in common sense and the common six senses.
It’s too easy to float around as airheads and not KNOW what we can only talk and think about, which would be our life itself. Out of the body experiences are no joke.
To make a play on words, “A fool and his body (and life) are soon parted.”
The whole point of dharma practice, as I understand it, is to unite the subject and the object, dissolve our duality, and merge in the complete immersion of non-duality.
That would be non-meditations like Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
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As Bodhicitta is so precious,
May those without it now create it,
May those who have it not destroy it,
And may it ever grow and flourish.
