incoming tide

Waves of the incoming tide

Even the palm leaves are trembling

When we are searching for ourself, searching for truth, searching for enlightenment, we feel we are the ones moving, looking, heading towards that great benediction. But a benediction is something that is given to us, it comes to us. This little poem is merely saying this: that your essence, your truth, is the ocean, and the tide is coming in. The incoming tide is going to engulf you, whether you like it or not. Just as the palm leaves are trembling before this incoming tide, so you will tremble as the vastness, the majesty, the expanse of your true self begins to become apparent to you. For our little thinking mind cannot comprehend it. Our words cannot capture it. Our thoughts, concepts, ideas are totally inadequate. As the feeling of this ocean coming towards us meets our consciousness, our awareness, we tremble. We tremble with fear at the power and inevitability of it. We tremble with excitement, at its unknown depths, uncharted territory. And we tremble from its majesty, its glory. This incoming tide is our true nature, this ocean that is coming towards us, that is going to engulf us, that’s going to consume us. It is going to take us into its deep. And we will be dispersed into its furthest corners. We will know it all, the whole boundless infinity of this ocean. It is coming for us. And we too shall tremble before it, before relaxing into it, before relaxing into our true being.