Rivers Pour In, yet the Sea Stays Calm
As the sea stays full and unmoved though all rivers pour into it, so peace comes to the one whom desires enter without stirring — not to the one who chases them.
Is my mind a small puddle that overflows at anything, or a sea that takes all in and stays calm?
📝Reflection
I read this sea-image as a metaphor for the vessel of the mind. A small puddle overflows and scatters at a single ladle of water, but the wide sea merely receives all the rivers and is not stirred. Peace is not the absence of desire but the ample calm in which desire may enter yet cannot sweep me away. It is the same ground where Buddhism speaks of an island no flood can drown. Rather than straining to erase things, I choose to widen the vessel of my mind until nothing that enters can make it overflow.
🌱Apply It Today
When things that stir you flood in today, say 'I am not a puddle but a sea,' and receive them all with that larger vessel.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
