“Some waves on the ocean are high,” Thich Nhat Hanh told his students, “and some are low. Waves appear to be born and to die. But if we look more deeply, we see that the waves, although coming and going, are also water, which is always there. Notions like high and low, birth and death can be applied to waves, but water is free of such distinctions. Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.”
Cypress Trees in the Garden: 439-466
The Story of Zen: 427
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