Being and learning

 If you don’t become the ocean

you will be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen

Our emotions are like waves—up and down, happy and miserable. We know we are not those. That knowledge is a perk of Awakening, but this knowledge also doesn’t prevent us from having these ups and downs. Maybe the amplitude of experiencing different emotions is reduced but we are still human just like everyone.

Suzhen Liu used the metaphor of the ocean in the introduction of her family energy seminar. The human emotions are the waves, the ruling family energy is the current beneath the wave, and the still depth of the ocean is the Consciousness outside of all conditioning. Using this image I would observe that we have to make it through four layers before we can enjoy the depth of our being—the personal memories, the subconscious past life impressions, the family energy and the accumulated history of humanity altogether. How to penetrate all that humanity, our parents and we ourselves have ever created? Isn’t that a hopeless endeavor?

There is a difference between “That” and learning. In universal energy learning is impossible because there is no “I” around to learn anything. Universal energies speak for themselves and we are mere mediums channeling what is. In Suzhen Liu’s image there is no current at the bottom of the ocean, that does not mean a current near the surface of the ocean does not exist, it is just not relevant for the whale who had swum to the bottom of the ocean. Yet, learning is essential for developing the lungs to frolic in the depth of the ocean; staying with painful memories in the past and be open to past life regressions, just as opening up to family and all of humanity’s energies.

There is a time to be present with God’s energies, and there is a time to look through the trickeries of the thought and image we have identified with. We refer to ourselves as human beings for a reason. Every day there is an opportunity to be, just as there is an opportunity to understand and let go of that which never was.