The ‘person’ that you have mistaken yourself to be is a useful fiction in the world (a false, mind-made construct) that cleverly covers the vastness of your Infinite Being. You, at the deepest level are the formless, limitless and unfathomable awareness behind your everyday, mundane experiences.”
Pure, untouched watchfulness is the essence of meditation in which you effortlessly observe your thoughts, sensations and behaviors (from a deeper sense of stillness, silence, clarity and being) without the need to over-analyze, generate added narratives, label or judge. ~Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)
Tom Marvolo Riddle (31 December, 1926 – 2 May, 1998), later known as Lord Voldemort or alternatively as You-Know-Who, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, or the Dark Lord, was a half-blood wizard considered to have been the most powerful and dangerous dark wizard of all time. The only child and son of Tom and Merope Riddle (née Gaunt) via the coercive use of a love potion, Riddle was raised in the Muggle-run Wool’s Orphanage after his father abandoned his new family on the streets of London when the potion’s influence was lifted, and his mother died moments after giving birth to and naming him after his father and maternal grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt.
When you look at the surface of the ocean, you can see waves coming up and going down. A wave may like to seek its own true nature. The wave might suffer from fear, from complexes. A wave may say, “I am not as big as the other waves,” “I am oppressed,” “I am not as beautiful as the other waves,” “I have been born and I have to die.”
The wave may suffer from these things, these ideas. But if the wave bends down and touches her true nature she will realise that she is water. Then her fear and complexes will disappear.
Water is free from the birth and death of a wave. Water is free from high and low, more beautiful and less beautiful. You can talk in terms of more beautiful and less beautiful, high or low, only in terms of waves. As far as water is concerned, all these concepts are invalid.
Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. We do not have to go anywhere in order to touch our true nature. The wave does not have to look for water because she is water. You are what you are looking for.
You can say to the wave, “My dearest wave, you are water. You don’t have to go and seek water. Your nature is the nature of nondiscrimination, of no birth, of no death, of no being and of no non-being.” Practice like a wave. Take the time to look deeply into yourself and recognise that your nature is the nature of no-birth and no-death.