When I came to Tozan’s enlightenment story I found myself drawn into his question (does an insentient being have Buddha nature?) and his teachers’ patient efforts to help him to see that no amount of grasping after meaning or linguistic content can describe what inheres in the moment of encounter with the simple presence of an inanimate object, like a rock. A rock is not a passive object. Its Dharma is its immanence. David Abram says, in Becoming Animal; an Earthly Cosmology: