Given everything is Dhamma , isn't it true that he who sees me sees Dhamma?
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The term "dhamma" has different meanings in Buddhism depending on context. You can find this on the wisdomlib page on dhamma.
In "sabbe dhamma anatta", the term "dhamma" means phenomena. So, yes. When one looks at you, one looks at a phenomena.
But when the Buddha said "Truly seeing me, one sees the Dhamma; truly seeing the Dhamma, one sees me" in Vakkali Sutta, he specifically meant Dhamma the teachings.
It's a figure of speech meaning that to understand what the Buddha is all about and to understand what is important and special about the Buddha, you have to understand his teachings.
Although Dhamma the teachings is also a phenomena which is not self.
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I understood it as meaning that the Buddha lives in accordance with the Dhamma -- that he practices what he preaches -- so if you see the Buddha then you see the Dhamma enacted or embodied; but, also, that there's no benefit to you (or to the Ven. Vakkali) in seeing the Buddha in person, no benefit that you wouldn't get equally or more so from seeing the Dhamma yourself.
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If the seer lives,
Yathā-bhūta-ñāna-dassana: 'the knowledge and vision according to reality'
then yes, she can see Dhamma seeing you.
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