"Buddhism has frequently compared the course of time to the apparent motion of a wave, wherein the actual water only moves up and down, creating the illusion of a 'piece' of water moving over the surface.
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It is a similar illusion that there is a constant 'self' moving through successive experiences, constituting a link between them in such a way that the youth becomes the man who becomes the graybeard who becomes the corpse."
— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
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‘Imagine this self as the foam on the crest of a wave’
Complex, tantalizing, beautiful, momentary, and ultimately lacking in a separate continuous self.
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