The Changeless Nature

Buddha-Qualities 1 096. Never is their impartiality something undeliberate.7. Their mighty aspiration to help beings is never subject todegradation,8. nor is their diligence,9. their memory,10. their prajna,11. their perfect liberation or12. their perception through the jnana of perfect liberation.13. The actions of their perfect bodies are preceded by jnana,14. as are the actions of their pure speech and15. their noble mind.16. Their jnana is unobscured with respect to the past,17. the present and18. the future.These eighteen, and other, qualities are the distinctive attributes ofour teachers — the buddhas.the function of the eighteen qualitiesFor the buddhas, the greatest sages, there are no mistakes, chatter,unmindfulness, mental agitation, various forms of ideation or casualneutrality. Aspiration, diligence, mindfulness and memory, perfectlypure and immaculate prajna, constant perfect liberation and the jnanaof perfect liberation which sees all aspects of the knowable — these aretheirs and never suffer any deterioration.All three activities (body, speech and mind) are preceded by andaccompanied by jnana 9 . Their perfect knowledge constantly andextensively penetrates the three times without hindrance. Theseeighteen powers having been realised, those victors, the buddhas,endowed with compassion's magnificence, accomplish a perfect andfearless turning of the great wheel of the true dharma for beings.