Short Story: “The Shoreless Wave”
The fire crackled gently as dusk settled over the forest. Eli and Mara sat in silence, the kind of silence that doesn’t need filling, heavy with something that had passed between them unspoken.
Eli finally said, “It happened again last night.”
Mara turned, not surprised. “The no-thing?”
He nodded slowly. “Sat with the sensations before going to bed … no body, no thought. Just energy. A wave. It moved through — thick, smooth, and centerless.”
Mara's eyes shimmered in the firelight. “Was it doing… or being done?”
“There was no doer. No observer. Just this… ocean. Not in the body, but as body, and beyond. Embodied… but not enclosed.”
They both fell silent again, letting the trees breathe for them.
“Did you go looking for it?” she asked finally.
Eli shook his head. “No. It happened when nothing was sought. It moved as itself. No story. No goal. Just a vast letting go… that no one was letting.”
Mara smiled faintly. “Like remembering something older than time.”
Eli laughed softly. “Or being dissolved into something that was never bound.”
She reached down and picked up a handful of leaves, letting them fall slowly. “I keep wondering if there’s anything left of ‘me’ when that happens.”
“And?” Eli asked.
She let the last leaf slip. “Only this… movement. Bracing, freezing, then dissolving. But no one doing it. Just the current… flowing without a shore.”
He leaned back and stared into the fire.
“Maybe the only true friend is that wave.”
Mara closed her eyes. “Then let’s not pretend to be separate from it anymore.”
And the silence that followed was the most intimate thing they had ever shared.
Vince Schubert YouTube Channel
Free online meetups every Saturday at 9 pm (Sydney Australia time) and one each Monday 7 am ( Sydney Australia time) and each Wednesday at 4 pm (Sydney Australia time) and every Friday 7 am (Sydney time) - never published. You can check your local time here: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com
Or visit the website for countdown timers to each meeting.
Please note that it's always the same time on the same link. Arriving late and leaving early is fine.
Click here to Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86991485768...
Here is a link to all of the published recordings. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Audio files can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
There is also paid 1on1 guiding here: https://calendly.com/vinceschubert/1-...
And if you can’t afford it there is guiding here: https://calendly.com/vinceschubert/1o...
Although the website still requires a lot of work, there are resources there; https://1ness.infoHere is a working version PDF of the web site that can be downloaded.
Here is a link to a new chatbot using the website as it’s knowledgebase.
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67a6d7d9cb548...
I’m loving these sweet vignettes, snippets of insight and wisdom.
Beautiful pointing, Vince...