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The fish and fan encounters challenge the idea that awakening is a possession that makes further practice unnecessary.
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Guided course · Module 7 · Lesson 35
Buddhist arguments in new languages and practices
Fazang asks in what sense a rafter is the house, and Dōgen tells of a master who goes on fanning himself. Why do dependence and awakening make neither distinct things nor continued practice dispensable?