 For Kūkai this bodily and concrete nature of the realization of original enlightenment, which he so emphasized, is ultimately predicated upon the fact that one’s self and Buddha are non-dualistic, that man in his very embodied existence – that is, in body-and-mind – is already a micro-cosmic mirror of the hosshin. We next turn to this aspect of man’s mirroring of the Buddha, which simultaneously is also the Buddha’s salvific helping of man.