The Changeless Nature

126 The Changeless Nature306 If all the earth were rid of fearful places and became flawless lapis,lustrous and beautiful with all that jewel's qualities —free from impurity, magnificent and of smooth, even surface,then there would appear, on account of its purity,the various divine abodes and the form of the king of gods.By such a ground's qualities' gradual disappearance,these things would once again become non-apparent.307In order to obtain such a state, many men and women would turnto the 'precepts of close observance' — true generosity and so on,scatter flowers and do other like deeds, their mind full of aspiration.In a similar way, in order to become this 'mighty victor king'who had appeared in their mind, comparable to pure lapis-lazuli,the victors' sons develop their 'mind' perfectly,their spirit being filled with great joy.308 Just as the reflection of the form of the king of godsappears in the clear lapis-lazuli ground,so also does the reflection of the king of mighty sages formappear in the clear ground which is beings' minds.309 For beings, the appearances and disappearances of these reflectionsoccur because of their mind's either unpolluted or polluted condition.Similar to the manifestation of form in the worlds,these should not be taken as entities 'existent' or 'extinct'.310 Through the power of the gods' former goodness,the dharma drum in the divine realms,without effort, location, mental form or concept,311 exhorts all the uncaring gods over and over again with its throbsof 'impermanence', 'suffering', 'no-self and 'peace'.