The Changeless Nature

the example for these distinctive qualitiesBuddha-Qualities 111Earth and the other elements (water, fire and wind) have propertiesof a specific character but their nature is not that of space. Space'sown intrinsic characteristic, non-obstruction, is absent in matter.Earth, water, fire, wind and space are equally common to all theworlds but not even so much as an atom of these distinctive attributesof a buddha is in common with any of the worlds.2B2. The Qualities of Maturity - the Relatively-True Kayas2B2a. the Thirty-Two Marks of a Perfect Being1. His feet are perfectly level and marked with dharmachakras.2. They are broad and the ankles are unobtrusive.3. The fingers and toes are long.4. The digits of the hands and feet are connected by a web.5. His skin is soft and his flesh fine and youthful.6. His body has seven elevated parts.7. His calves are like those of an antelope.8. His private parts are recessed, like an elephant's.9. His torso is like a lion's.10. His clavicles are not hollow but well-filled with flesh.11. The tops of his shoulders are elegantly rounded.12. His arms are soft, round and even.13. His arms are long.14. His perfectly-pure body is surrounded by a light-aura.15. His neck is as immaculate as a conch.16. His cheeks are as magnificent as a lion's.17. He has forty teeth, equal numbers on each jaw.18. The teeth are very pure and closely-set.19. The teeth are immaculate and evenly-aligned.20. The eye-teeth are perfect and excellently white.21. His tongue is long, unending and inconceivable.22. He possesses the most perfect faculty of taste.23. This spontaneously-born one has a voice as sweet as that of akalavinka bird or as Brahma's melody.