My experience with this coming and going of presence has in many ways left me the odd man out. Do not even know how to ask meaningful questions. Here is a hesitant question. Do you see the movement of thought as it rises from the foundation blooming and becoming?
The monk's question: "If the dog *has* (有) Buddha nature, why does it !nevertheless! (卻) *enter* (入) a sack of flesh (i.e., a dog's body, not a Buddha's "adamantine" body)?" A misguided question pertaining to substance, just like the *has* or *lacks* (有/無) from the Mu Kōan.
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Zhaozhou's reply: "Because he knowingly (知) and 而 purposefully (故) offends (犯)," i.e., commits unwholesome karma (activity informed by cetanā, intention) and thereby still participates in saṃsāra.
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Nothing about transmigrating from one incarnation to another. When one no longer *has*/*lacks* (有/無) Buddha nature and instead *is*, no longer *enters* (入 rù) but is instead *thus* (如 rú), then the question transforms.
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In no way was it my intent to suggest that the monks question pointed to it having an adamantine body. It was my intent to suggest that a more permanent body was possible one that was largely immune to change. This is rather clearly stated in the relevant text.pic.twitter.com/vaxNMNEmZF
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This line also suggests a succession of incarnations. I am only offering this as a curiosity. https://www.bdkamerica.org/system/files/pdf/dBET_T0374_NirvanaSutra1_2013_0.pdf … "Having upheld the causal principles of the dharma since the distant past, I have now attained this adamantine body, permanent and indestructible."
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