The Infinite Ocean of Consciousness
El Océano Infinito de Consciencia
An invitation to notice that everything you experience — thoughts, feelings, sensations — is already appearing in one undivided, spacious reality.
The Infinite Ocean of Consciousness
Seeing reality directly
What we're looking for is
to see reality as reality,
rather than our beliefs
and interpretations about reality.
Reality is.
Beingness is.
Consciousness is.
It's not here or there.
It wasn't and then it is, then it is and it won't be.
Nothing other than consciousness is.
There is one substance, beingness.
It can be still.
It can be transparent.
It can be dark and light.
You can paint thoughts,
make the shape of sensation.
Everything appears in beingness
The body appears in beingness.
Thoughts appear.
Movement appears.
Nothing is in any particular way.
Nothing to find,
nothing to get,
nothing to become.
You are that already.
It is literal.
And the moment it starts to become,
that is a movement away.
Yet this movement cannot take you anywhere other
than where you are already.
The infinite spaciousness
The infinite space we call the universe is
an appearance of sensations,
sounds and sights,
thoughts and feelings.
Everything that you're experiencing is
happening in infinite spaciousness.
In the presence of a struggling self,
uncomfortable, afraid,
anxious,
tense,
needing,
desiring,
resisting,
it's all happening
in infinite spaciousness.
At any time, no matter what is happening,
at any moment,
no matter what you're feeling,
thinking,
experiencing,
nothing needs to change
for there to be infinite spaciousness.
It is guaranteed,
always present, everywhere.
A sense that it is unavailable,
lost,
gone, forgotten,
is a thought, a belief, or a sensation happening in infinite spaciousness.
Any sense of an I,
a self, a limited, contracted I,
it's just the sense of an I
or a self happening in infinite spaciousness.
No inside or outside
There is no inside or outside.
Everything we see appears
in the same space as every thought,
every image,
every sound.
Every breath,
every bodily sensation appears
in the same space as the stars.
Every memory,
desire,
contraction appears
in the same infinite space as
the whales in the ocean.
We fear,
we believe,
we desire,
we appear in the same infinite space
as everything else.
Nothing can be split.
One invisible substance
The substance of reality,
everything you are,
everything you experience,
everything everything is made of.
The reality of everyone,
what everyone is,
what everyone experiences.
All creatures, plants.
One invisible substance,
like water in an infinite ocean,
looking,
experiencing,
being,
feeling.
It's happening everywhere.
The mystery
Notice reality,
just to know that you can't know anything about it.
Absolutely mysterious.
Perfectly new,
unique.
Mysterious movement.
The illusion comes when
we choose to overlook
and turn this mystery into "reality and I."
There can be no such thing.
There can only be reality, or I.
There's no room for reality and I.
We want to imagine we can split
the infinite ocean of consciousness.
The only way to live in a universe
where there is "reality and I"
is with our imagination.
Who are you
without the imagined world
of reality and I?