Relative and Ultimate

   The relative and the ultimate are seen as a unity.  All is thus, as-it-is.  There is no interference between form and emptiness and there is no barrier between the two truths.  Waves in the ocean cannot be isolated from the ocean; the ocean is differentiated into waves only descriptively, conceptually.   Waves are the same as the ocean, but they do have difference, but the difference and the sameness must be fused together in the mind of thusness.  There is no real duality anywhere.

   “Buddhas abide in the matrix of the kosmos of real thusness, signless, formless, free from all the taints… In each mental moment they observe all things abiding in the state of true thusness; they comprehend the ocean of all phenomena.”                         (~ Buddhavatamsaka Sutra)