I previously introduced an analogy about waves. This analogy was meant to simplify the narrative but contained elements that could lead to significant misunderstandings from a Buddhist perspective. Suppose a wave in the ocean becomes aware that it is a wave. By becoming aware that it is a wave, it comes to regard many other waves as its rivals, and it spends all its time competing with them for survival. In other words, a delusion arises that it and others are in competition with each other. This delusion is the cause of all suffering. However, when it realizes that it is not just a wave, but the entire ocean, the delusion of self/other conflict disappears, and it experiences a sense of oneness with the entire ocean. However, what could be misleading was that the real self that finally arrived was the ocean itself, the “great ocean. The reason is that, although a metaphor, the actual ocean is a real thing, an object of perception. As explained in the doctrine of ...
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