Setting: The Atlantic Ocean
Characters: Small Wave and Big Wave
Small Wave: I'm so miserable (unhappy and moaning to itself) The other waves are big and powerful, while I'm so little and weak. Why is life so unfair?
Big Wave: (passing by) You only think so because you haven't seen your own 'original nature' clearly. You think you're a wave and you think you're suffering. In reality you are neither.
Small Wave: What? (surprised) I'm not a wave? But it's obvious I'm a wave! I've got my crest, see? And there's my wake, little as it is. What do you mean I'm not a wave?
Big Wave: This thing you call 'wave' is merely a temporary form you assume for a short time. You're really just water! When you understand completely that this is your fundamental nature, you will no longer be confused about being a wave, and you will be free of your misery.
Small Wave: (growing angrier) If I'm water, what about you?
Big Wave: (patiently) I'm water too. I'm temporarily assuming the form of a wave somewhat larger than you, but that doesn't change my fundamental essence - water! I'm you and you're me. We're part of a greater self.
(Satisfied, Small Wave rolls on and fades away to the shore.)
