An analogy to help visualize the space of your mind

I heard this analogy and it really helped me visualize what it meant to have a calm mind, here’s a little food for thought.

The ocean is made up of waves, sometimes waves may be no more than ripples like when a pebble is thrown into the water and sometimes they can be monstrous and intimidating when the world outside is storming. But let’s dive beneath the waves, if you think about the space a few meters below the tumultuous waves on the surface, there is calm, the water is no longer pulled back and forth. The deeper you dive, the fewer the disturbances and the more insignificant the waves on the surface become. The depths of the ocean are not affected by the waves on top. Waves have a small life, they come and they go, but the ocean doesn’t come and go with the waves, it persists it is something more.

The mind is as profound as the ocean is deep, if we spend our time focusing on the surface, the waves, we will be affected by their rise and fall, we will find ourselves engulfed in them through every storm and wavering with every small ripple. But if we anchor ourselves in the depths of our mind, in the calm and tranquility that exists within us, the storms of the outside world will be just one of millions, insignificant. It takes practice to dive down, but with practice it can be done by anyone.