The three Buddhas implies the body-Buddha, the form-Buddha and the function-Buddha.
They are not separate from one another but one. According to the Buddha’s teaching that everything is the Buddha and that there is nothing that is not the Buddha, you are also the Buddha that consists of the three Buddhas.
The form-Buddha implies your physical body, and the function-Buddha implies all the functions of your physical body; move, hear, see, speak and so on. The body-Buddha means the whole universe that the former two Buddhas belong to and exist and function based on. The former two Buddhas can neither exist nor function at all without the body-Buddha. In other words, the former two Buddhas are to the body-Buddha as a rolling wave is to the ocean. The purpose of Buddhism, Zen practice is to realise the body-Buddha.
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