Well, "layman's terms" are the only terms I can talk about Buddhism with. Your actual question from the OP seems to be actually directed at Malcolm and is not totally appropriate for me to just "answer." Since I've been asked, I'll give it a go, but asking questions about the dharmakaya to a learner like myself is like asking a first-year university student what is definitely at the edge of the universe. They will have some theories they've read, but ultimately you are better asking an actual astrophysicist.Minobu wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:01 pmbut in total layman's terms...what do you think is the use of the Dharmakaya body...what ever it may be or what ever nature it is.
like does it aid in communication.. is it used to aid in a sentient an individual, teach someone . set up a set of circumstance in order for the person to learn...can it actually do stuff...
The one answer that is easy is to say is "No, it does not aid in communication." Why? The Buddhas create transformation bodies etc. because the dharmakaya isn't a "particular body" that goes about and "does things." If you take a picture of a chair that no one is sitting in, you've captured the dharmakaya in perfect meditative equipoise. That's only half-joke. That being said, the dharmakaya is the ground for the other two bodies, implying a hierarchy, but there is also a unity of them supposedly. So is it actually appropriate at all to talk about one of three bodies specifically not doing what the other bodies are up to if they have a unity? Maybe not. Depends on what the unity is. Three bodies one Buddha -- are the activities of Buddhahood shared between the three united bodies? The conventional "easy," possibly wrong, answer is that specifically the dharmakaya doesn't do anything aside from being a foundation.