THE WAVE

Sukuki Roshi: "Waves are the practice of water. To speak of waves apart from water, or water apart from waves is a delusion."

Think of the crowd as an ocean. The seas can be rough, screaming and crying out. The people are droplets of water that make ripples as they move about the stadium. But when many droplets of water coordinate in motion at one time we get a wave, tumbling round the stadium. Although a wave in the ocean is distinct from the ocean, in the sense that we can identify it as a wave, we never think of the wave as something different from the ocean. We never say a wave is not the ocean. We always see the wave as an expression of the ocean at a particular time and place. And how different are we? Are we not waves in the ocean universe? Why then do we see ourselves as different from our universe? Our senses tell us this. They organize us into thinking that this world is something that we must fight against, overcome, rule, control, dominate, and overpower. But our senses limit us - just look at someone who's clearly losing theirs. If we could see the world as it is, we'd see that we are but a wave, coming and going. But don't be dismayed, although the wave is but a blip in the ocean, there is no ocean without them.

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