Ungraspable

The names and forms with which we identify have a beginning and an end, and that end is sad. There is loss and grief. If we become overly attached to identifications and lose ourselves in time, it can lead to suffering. We focus mainly on what has been lost.

The mind excels at this, turning everything into objects. Then it can count, name, and list what has happened and what should happen. It can create a 5-year plan, a 10-year plan, and a 15-year plan.

Our dreams help us to cope with time. They have their place. Focusing on this aspect of reality—a vision that might have a plan attached to it with subsequent execution—is one way of living that can be very effective. However, here we are moving towards something else.

Being. There is no plan or vision other than the vision of the One. That vision is ungraspable. We cannot see it because we are too small and too limited. It is like a drop trying to see the ocean. Can it? No, it cannot. What we can do, however, is align ourselves with it. Sometimes it can feel like a lonely place, with just one drop and then another, and no one else around. Then, at some point, something shifts and the perspective changes.

This is an invitation to change your perspective and realise that every drop is part of a wave, and every wave is part of the larger movement of the ocean. It is this Great Ocean that moves us, each of us. As a form, we come and then we go, but the ocean continues its movement. So, the invitation here is to recognize that there is the Ocean, and that its movements are the Great Mystery.