The Shoyoroku Case 17: Fayan's Hair's Breadth is a koan in which, in response to Fayan Wenyi's question, "Even a hair's breadth of difference causes a gap as vast as heaven and earth—how do you understand this?", Master Xiushan simply echoes the exact same phrase back. Usually, people say that "a slight delusion determines the decisive state of enlightenment." However, in this dictionary, we define it as a teaching of deep self-reflection: "within the absolute non-differentiation of the Buddhist way, there are individual practices, and those very practices manifest non-differentiation as it is."
Q: Why does this koan have the background of the Avatamsaka Sutra (Kegon-kyo)?
A: Because the worldview in which differentiation (individual phenomena) and non-differentiation (absolute truth) melt together without contradiction is the very embodiment of the Dharma-realm origination (dharmadhatu-pratityasamutpada, where all things are mutually fused and interpenetrating) taught by the Avatamsaka Sutra.
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