"All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water; apart from water there is no ice, apart from beings no Buddha." Hakuin Ekaku, Zazen Wasan
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Replying to @NoaidiX
I used to hear statements like this as an ontology. Similar to “all jivas are Brahman.” Now I hear it like- “all sentient beings possess the luminous awareness” and “anything I encounter arising as an object in my awareness as it is known by awareness alone is that awareness.”
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Replying to @chakathemighty
That's a helpful reframing. When "nature" is understood not as a static entity but a dynamic process, a renewed aliveness gushes forth and suffuses experience itself.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
May I ask you to expand your take on the statement? Thank you.
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Neither water nor ice are fixed substances existing independently of the other. Their natures are dynamically intertwined. Likewise, beings and buddhas are mutually illuminating.
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