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    Extending soteriological potential to grasses and land co... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→All beings, including non-sentient things like grasses, trees, and the land itself, hold the potential for awakening.

    Extending soteriological potential to grasses and land conflates ontological participation in suchness with the distinct capacity for liberation.

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    • 1.Liberation requires volitional agency and intentional striving; grasses lack the cognitive capacities necessary for soteriological transformation.
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    • 2.Participating in being (suchness) is metaphysically universal; soteriological potential requires specific moral and epistemic capacities that are categorically distinct.
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    • 3.Confusing ontological status with soteriological capacity dissolves meaningful ethical distinctions and renders liberation conceptually incoherent.
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    • 1.Some Buddhist traditions teach that all sentient beings possess Buddha-nature; grasses may possess subtle sentience or proto-consciousness we cannot currently detect.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'participation in suchness' and 'capacity for liberation' may itself be a dualistic construct that obscures non-dual reality.
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    • 3.Liberation might not require intentional striving but rather removal of delusion; this is possible for any entity with any form of existence or awareness.
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