Yet as long as those waves continue to rise and fall, fluctuating in a continual cycle without ever dying into oblivion, then there is life, there is immortality. So why compare which wave is bigger and which smaller?

• 但使波涛之前仆后起，循环起伏，不归沉寂，便是生命，便是长生，复奚较此波长彼波短耶?