The Changeless Nature

Buddha Activity3B5. THE SUN - the Example of Jnana's Penetration137showing that jnana does and does not penetrateWhen the sun blazes, lotuses and like flowers open; simultaneously,the kumuta 16 flowers close up completely. The sun has no thoughtof 'good' or 'bad' that those 'water-born' flowers be either open orclosed. Like this also is the 'sun' — the perfectly-realised one.its penetrative activityThe sun, without ideation, by its own light's radiation simultaneouslymakes lotuses bloom and other things ripen. Similarly, withoutideation, the tathagata sun pours forth his rays of true dharma ontothose 'lotuses' who are beings to be trained.how jnana radiatesThrough the dharmakaya and the form kayas, the sun which isthe all-knowing one rises in the firmament of the essence of enlightenmentto send forth its sunbeams of jnana into sentient beings.how its penetration is variedDue to this, the sugata-sun appears simultaneously in countlessreflections in all those 'water-vessels' that are the purer sentientbeings to be trained.the gradual penetration of jnanaContinually, from amid the sky of all-pervading dharmadhatu,in a fashion according to what they have merited, the sun i. e. thebuddha, shines on his mountain-like students.Just as the risen sun, with thousands of magnificent rays, havingillumined the universe, sheds its light in turn on the highest summits,then the medium and then the plains 17 , likewise does that sun, thevictorious one, confer his light progressively on the multitudes ofbeings.