It can certainly seem like we’re the ones being negatively impacted by life’s tidal waves. That’s a real perspective, one we all know quite well. But from the perspective of being dissolved in the sea of existence itself, there are just the inevitable tidal waves of life with no separate someone on the receiving end of them. Put another way, what’s perceiving the ocean is simply more ocean. This is the discovery of invulnerability—the realization that nothing can harm the ocean of life because there is literally nothing existing outside of it. This is why it’s so powerful to just relax and notice that all you’re ever experiencing is this oceanic presence of being in all the myriad shapes and forms it can take.