Dive, Dive!

Suddenly I remember my days in the submarines. (1957-1960) When a submarine is on the surface, it behaves like a surface ship. when it submerges, it behave like a fish. But there is a very dangerous transition when the sub first submerges, and a large wave could tip it over as it ballast tanks are half full and half empty.

And so with the path of liberation…there is a transition between the unreal and the real that is confusing and we flip back and forth. But with effort and perseverance and a steady meditation practice one makes the passage and the sub is free from the limitations of the surface world. It no longer has fear of sinking beneath the surface (of the mind) and leaving its surface ship identity. The fleet doesn’t even know you have gone.

The meditator, like the submarine, is familiar and free in both worlds. The mind is not two, a surface world and an unconscious world that is full of large demons and habits. The mind is one, the ocean is one. Stay up, go down, makes no difference…it’s all ocean.

So like the submarine, one must practice diving, day after day, until one is comfortable wherever you are. If you are busy, you are busy, if you are not, you are not. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing…it is still the ocean…and you are okay. You cannot die..because you have already been beneath the boundary…and you are there too