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Fоr Kаrl Rаhner, а Cathоlic theоlogian, grace is available to all people simply by virtue of being human. That is, we are continual recipients of grace/revelation (i.e., meeting God, the Truth, the Good, or, in Buddhist terminology, the Dharma) simply as a function of being self-aware, self-conscious beings: human beings. For Rahner, this is the basic fact of human existence. Our ability to be self-aware and self-conscious has as its condition of possibility the presence of an absolute horizon, which itself must rest on, or be created by, an Absolute Being, “God.” And, as this horizon is given to us (grace), we can say that “God”/Absolute Being is gracious and loving. Rahner has this to say about how “God”/Absolute Being is experienced by different people: The individual person, of course experiences this fundamental and inescapable structure [being related to the “God”/Absolute Being] best in that basic situation of his own existence which occurs with special intensity for him as an individual . . . whatever is the clearest experience for him: on the luminous and incomprehensible light of his spirit; on the capacity for absolute questioning . . . on annihilating anxiety . . . on that joy which surpasses all understanding . . . on absolute moral obligation . . . on the experience of death in which he faces himself with absolute powerlessness.” (33. The unity of the ways of the mind to God) Thesis: Rahner’s description of the different ways for an individual to experience “God” is/is not the same as the Lotus Sutra’s doctrine that the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara “preaches the law” in whatever shape is best able to be understood by an individual human being (i.e., a Buddha, a Bodhisattva, a goblin, an imp, etc.) (18. The Power and Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara)