The ocean of samsara is a buddhist metaphore for the unenlightend state in wich we nearly all live. At the other side are the beaches of nirvana !
Samsara literally means “wandering-on.” Many people think of it as the Buddhist name for the place where we currently live — the place we leave when we go to nibbana. But in the early Buddhist texts, it’s the answer, not to the question, “Where are we?” but to the question, “What are we doing?” Instead of a place, it’s a process: the tendency to keep creating worlds and then moving into them.
