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Linji's Awakening Story
- Linji's breakthrough came after a master repeatedly struck him, despite his low self-confidence.
- This harsh teaching method aimed to provoke sudden awakening through embodied experience.
Authentic Person Concept
- Linji calls the core conscious activity the 'authentic person,' a formless doing without fixed self.
- This reconciles Buddhism's no-self teaching with a lived sense of true self in experience.
Fourfold Analysis Explained
- Linji's fourfold analysis alternates between presence and absence of person and scene experiences.
- It illustrates dynamic nonduality as the interplay of self (person) and world (scene).