The Buddha’s True Dharma Body
Is just like space
Manifesting its form
According to circumstances
It is like the moon in water.
Caoshan Benji
‘Manifesting its form’ means that Buddha and human beings arise together; space and the myriad things appear together. It is not that space is pre-existing and the myriad things then take their place. It is not like that.
Similarly, Buddhism is not a house which practitioners can enter, occupy and leave. Practitioners are the house: the roof, the walls, the doors, the windows.
The heart is manifested by what it holds.