The Ocean Within

“You are not a wave, you are the ocean.”

Chuang Tzu

Whenever in life you feel lost, tossed around by endless storms, drowning, it may be that what is needed is not more action, but stillness and depth.

We are so absorbed by the outside world that if someone speaks of a deep ocean within, filled with peace and equanimity, we reject them as insane.

Yet that’s the truth: within each of us lies the same ocean of pure light—still, boundless, infinite. It is the Mother and the child, The source and the flow.

From it everything comes, and to it everything returns.

More vast than all the seas of the earth, no storm has ever disturbed the stillness of its depths.

We do not need to look for it out there, in the world. It is here, closer to us then then the veins on our neck. It is what we are at the very core of our being. All that is needed is to remember:

Truly, this is who I am.

Everyone seek remedies for the chaos that rages at its surface. Yet only by plunging into the darkness can you taste how far it extends beyond anything you’ve ever imagined.

The more you return to the abyss and drink from its waters, the more knowledge falls away, until you remain entirely naked—as what you are, as what you have always been.

In that nakedness there is no inside nor outside, no good nor bad. The ocean and its waves are one, and every soul that has ever lived is one with it too.

Then it becomes obvious that your true being is so vast it contains all the storms that have ever arisen, and all those that ever will.

None of them have truly threatened you.

Every experience, good or bad, is but a passing wave, appearing and vanishing at the surface of the ocean of eternity.

The ocean in its totality is what you are.

Simply remember: whatever flickers in and out of existence is illusion. What is real does not change.

IMF - La Cathedrale Verte, Lausanne 3 September 2025