One morning at Auroville Beach, as I watched the sun come up over the horizon, a thought rose from the depths of my mind. Our mind, I thought, is like a sea of thoughts. A constant stream of thoughts seem to rise from the depths of our mind and subsequently falls to where it came from … it vanishes … it dissipates!
It is when I watch these thoughts … simply as an observer … I realize that these thoughts are not me. They are as impermanent as the waves rising out of the sea … they vanish … they dissipate … they merge back to where they came from … they merge back to the infinite!
So where is the need to hold on to the thoughts that are impermanent … that dissipate? Let us enjoy the beauty of the waves, the sunrises, and bask in the realization of the impermanence of the waves … sunrises … and our thoughts!
