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    If awakening potential is intrinsic to beings, no externa... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→For Pure Land teaching to be authentically grasped, the Buddhas must actively work to bridge the gap between dharma and beings' ignorance

    If awakening potential is intrinsic to beings, no external bridging act by Buddhas is logically necessary for dharma comprehension.

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    • 1.Beings possess Buddha-nature; awakening is uncovering inherent capacity, not acquiring external properties.
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    • 2.If dharma comprehension requires external intervention, awakening becomes dependent on contingent factors, undermining liberation's universality.
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    • 3.Direct insight into emptiness and interdependence needs no mediator—these truths are logically self-evident upon investigation.
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    • 1.Intrinsic potential without activation remains unrealized; seeds require soil, water, sunlight to germinate into actual growth.
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    • 2.Beings demonstrate systematic ignorance obscuring their nature; scaffolding (teachings, transmission) logically bridges perception to reality.
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    • 3.Logical necessity differs from causal efficacy; even if intrinsic, potential may require catalytic conditions external to itself to manifest.
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