Lake and Sky

This quote from Eckhart Tolle really helps me, as so many quotes from him do:

"Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites, you become like a deep lake.  The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there is the surface of the lake.  Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and seasons.  Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed.  You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.  You abide in Being – unchanging, timeless, deathless – and you are no longer dependent for fulfillment or happiness on the outer world of constantly fluctuating forms.  You can enjoy them, play with them, create new forms, appreciate the beauty of it all.  But there will be no need to attach yourself to any of it."

All the latest hype in the world – it's all the same –  just ripples on a lake. 

In addition to "lake," "sky" works well too.  There are many different clouds – "clouds" being personal thoughts and emotions/emotional patterns, along with all the 'stuff' that's taking place in the world.  Some clouds are pleasant, while others are stormy.  There can be tornadoes and hurricanes too.  But clouds just come and go in a super-spacious, super-vast sky.  One can know the sky beyond all the clouds and storms.  

Of course, thoughts and emotions are fine to have, but when one also knows oneself beyond thoughts and emotions, they can be transmuted to a higher quality.  Clouds can become golden, and there can be rainbows and cloudships.  

Everyone has an unfathomable depth within themselves, and they can allow themselves to know it.  In my case, feeling and knowing this depth has helped me to disidentify from lurker-infested thoughts and emotions/emotional patterns for optimal disentanglement.  This could be the best way for others to disentangle as well. 

Regarding the Li family, as they are disentangled from the lurker, maybe they too can know themselves as a lake or the sky.