The Wave Analogy

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The wave is never something separate from the ocean. It's just water moving in different ways. We're just emptiness taking on different forms, dependently originated, not separate from the "ocean". Un-enlightenment is seeing "a wave", enlightenment is seeing "the ocean waving", or simply "waving" (since the ocean isn't a static thing itself, especially if it's being used as a metaphor for “emptiness").

SOURCE:  NewBuddhist.com