Oneness Fish In Nature

Category Enlightenment, Non-duality

Nature can be a wonderful teacher. When we look a little more closely, we notice that Oneness is already quite apparent in nature and that things are much more connected than them seem at first glance.

School of Fish

Have you ever watched a school of fish swimming together? Perhaps you saw it on TV or in real life somewhere. Either way, chances are you noticed that the fish clearly swim as one unified pack.

When the school changes direction, all of the fish change direction simultaneously. There’s no fish leader who chooses where to go and creates a domino effect of turning fish as they all follow his lead. No, they all turn instantly as one unified group, even in when the school is incredibly ginormous and there’s no way the fish in the back could see the fish in the front.

Which perspective is correct? The individual or the one? BOTH. All that changes is your perspective, the way you are looking at the One and the All. You’re seeing BOTH the individual fishies AND one seamless group.

Nature is an amazing thing and it offers plenty of examples and insights for what we need when we’re willing to take a look.

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11 Responses to “Oneness Fish In Nature”

buddha of hollywood said:

Fish as well as birds do not have “reason” to stop them from acting naturally.
You have to be smart to be stupid

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Ariel Bravy Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
lol
Jonas said:

So hypnotic..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_Blp6w528

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Ariel Bravy Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
That’s so cool to watch…
Rhonda said:

Of course synchronization produces the optimum effect, though the human flow almost resembles an ant colony affair. Fish are much too graceful.

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Marko Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Well check this out, next time you are driving and curving in different directions on the high way with other cars you will get a similar feeling like the fish, traveling harmoniously, at least until a traffic jam! But otherwise, I feel this sense of oneness when I’m driving with other cars flowing smoothly with the traffic. Or, even driving while alone feeling one with life, at least to some degree.

I think part of the reason we are here now, is to feel both our individual selves and oneness with others.

We like our individuality and also being connected to all the others similarly but with distinct perspectives. It can be the best of both worlds if we choose it that way.
Evelyn Lim said:

I used to dive. (No chance to go back to the sport in the past few years with my kids being so young.) But I recall the awesome feeling of seeing schools of fish swimming in perfect synchronization.

I like how you are presenting that both perspectives co-exist: the One and the individual. Focusing on one aspect alone is going to cause misalignment.

Thanks for the reminder to look more closely into how nature is offering us vast insights. I’m going to do just that when I step out of my home in the next 2 hrs.

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Chris Edgar | Purpose Power Coaching said:

Thanks for this post. It reminds me of how you can look at the universe as a vast energy field or a bunch of separate objects and space, but we usually only try on the second perspective.

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Jasper said:

Yeah, Nature is the ultimate teacher!

Learning from, and copying nature is a essential part of all human endeavor, especially science.

The scientific approach to the swarm behaviour of fish would be to reason it, by saying that they have special receptors, which allow them to feel minute pressure fluctuations in the water around them.
Another advanced, but not yet accepted theory is Sheldrake´s theory of morphic fields.
Its kinda similar to the “attractor fields” Hawkins uses to explain stuff.
vvwalzbe said:

HAHAH Ariel your blog is AWESOME!!! This exact same reference came into my head quite a while back in a great conversation with a friend about connectedness and oneness. Definitely made me smile reading this and just wanted to share the not so randomness of the universe.

-Vince

Also, I tried posting the comment below on your general comment page, but it didn’t go through so thought I’d throw it here.

Dude, I just have to say that this blog is awesome! My friend recommended it to me a while back by request for some good, spiritual reading. I read a few posts, and am just now really going through it.

I simply have to say- dude, you rock. It’s very refreshing- you bring the amazing spiritual experiences into everyday life, exactly where they should be.

I’ve almost been feeling bad about keeping my spirituality so colloquial so to speak, but you’ve definitely helped confirm a lot of things and made me really smile. These posts are awesome, and really shows me that I’m on the right path of just focusing on be who i’m supposed to be in this grand scheme of perfection. Everything has it’s place and time, and I’m created to fill a particular niche. It’s my spiritual responsibility to simply be what I’ve been created to be and fill the space I’m supposed to fill. Through that I will have every encounter and interaction I need to and help those that I’m meant to help.

Again- dude, you ROCK and I just wanted to make you smile as you’ve made me smile and write an encouraging note to continue to be you (without the ego of course) and enjoy basking in the perfection and joy and peace that is the stillness of just being.

All the best,

-Vince

Ariel Bravy Reply:
February 8th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
haha thanks Vince. I appreciate the heads up about the contact form. It’s been fixed… again.