 Hosshin in its somaticity is identified with the cosmos as an organic whole wherein thing-events come and go via interdependent origination. The cosmos as such is called hokkai (Skrt: dharmadhātu; world/realm of the Dharma), and in turn as the hosshin, it is the body or soma (tai) of the Buddha Dainichi. (However it should not be understood as substantial in the western philosophical sense because it is “empty” – more on “emptiness” below.) Hence Kūkai in Shōjijissōgi cites lines from the Avatamsaka Sūtra that “all lands are in the body of the Buddha,” or that “each hair [of the Buddha] contains myriad lands as vast as oceans…” And yet simultaneously the truth, the Dharma, embodied in the entire cosmos is manifest within each of its micro-cosmic parts. This view that the whole permeates its parts – reminding us perhaps of the more recent theories of holonics or the holographic model of the universe – allows Kūkai to show that the hosshin does indeed preach the Dharma throughout the cosmos in its every single aspect.