The Changeless Nature

110 The Changeless Nature256 Earth and the others have properties of specific character— their nature is not that of space.Space's own intrinsic characteristic,non-obstruction, is absent in matter.Earth, water, fire, air and spaceare equally common to all the worldsbut not even so much as an atomof the distinctive attributes of a buddhais common to any of the worlds.257 Perfectly level and marked with wheels,his feet are broad and ankles unobtrusive.Long are his fingers and toeswhich are themselves interwebbed.258 Soft is his skin and fine his youthful flesh.His body has seven elevated parts.Like an antelope's are his calvesand like an elephant's are his private parts recessed.259 His torso is like a lion'sand clavicles not hollow but well-filled.His shoulders are elegantly roundedand rounded, soft and even are his arms.260 His arms are long and his perfectly-pure bodyby an aura of light is surrounded.His neck is like a conch and without blemishand cheeks like those of the king of beasts'.261 Equal are his forty teeth.They are very pure and closely-set,immaculate and evenly-aligned;the eye-teeth perfect and excellently white.262 His tongue is long, unending and inconceivable,with the most perfect faculty of taste.The spontaneously-born one has a voicelike the song of the kalavinka bird or Brahma's melody.