Atmānanda- Laharī

  Surfing in Consciousness Southern California, waves folding into the shore, surfers learning to watch and ride, not be carried away by the Pacific swell. Deep in the unconscious, buried like ancient seeds, rest the memories of this life, and of lives forgotten. They rise unannounced as desires and fears. A desire appears a small, glistening wave. Watch it. Ride above it. It falls back into stillness. Obstructed, desire hardens becomes anger. A towering wave, crashing with force. Watch it. Ride above it. It too dissolves. Again, a stirring fear, a trembling ripple, a bubble at first, spreading into grief that overflows its shores. Watch it. Ride above it. It returns to silence. Another wave born of indulgence, of senses unrestrained. Guilt rises, circling restlessly, again and again. Watch it. Ride above it. It subsides. Each wave, a teacher, whispering the same truth: You are not the wave. You are the ocean, vast and boundless.  You are the water in which all waves rise, pla...

  All is one consciousness!  The so-called universe, nature, God! Sentient and insentient things that are odd, The changing color of the trees,  The flowing nature of the breeze, The placid reflection in the lake,  The tall, peaked mountains, not fake,  The roaring waves of the ocean,  The changing landscape of notions,  The people, their behaviors everywhere,  The crazy desires that arise from nowhere,  The conscious and the unconscious mind,  That constantly to be told, never mind! The bodies that want beauty surgeries,  The bodies that want longevity procedures,  The blue zones with so many centenarians,  The desserts with no life capabilities,  The thought that is yet to arise, The silence that is between the thoughts!  All is one consciousness!