The Changeless Nature

174 The Changeless Nature40. The great sages who have received... bodhisattvas on the 10th level.Chapter Three — the Buddha-Qualities1. Fulfilment for oneself and benefit for others: see Note 13 to Part One.2. The qualities of freedom come from the relinquishment of all veils.The qualities of maturity are revealed by the accumulation of virtue andjnana.3. An appropriate result is the correspondence between the nature of an actionand the nature of its result. Good actions bring happiness, bad actions bringsuffering. An inappropriate result would be the absence of such correspondence.4. When enlightenment is reached, everything to be purified has been purifiedand everything to be realised is realised. See Note 11 to Part I5-8 These four points refer to the four sublime truths, taught by the Buddha inthe first turning of the wheel of dharma. 5. The truth of suffering is 'whatis to be known'. 6. The truth of the origination of suffering, 'what is to begiven up 1 — karma and the defilements. 7. The truth of the path — 'whatis to be relied upon' and 8. The truth of cessation — 'the goal to be achieved!The terms literally mean 'the truths' (bDen. Pa) 'of the realised' ('Phags. Pa'i).'Sublime' means 'aloof from and raised far above the ordinary' (OxfordDiet. ) since these truths are only perceived by realised beings. Sometimescalled 'Four Noble Truths'.9. Since buddhahood is jnana, then buddha-activity is the spontaneous workingof jnana and is always preceded and accompanied by jnana.10. Urna hair: a. single hair, between the eyebrows, curling to the right.11. The sons of the victorious ones see the form-kaya of the buddha as themandalas of the sambhogakaya. Ordinary beings with good karma see thenirmanakaya of the buddha in the world.12. Ratna Sutra: the ratnadarikasutra13. Motionless: the form kayas never depart from the dharmakaya (see Chapter4).14. The state of the Arhants.15. Pratyekabuddhas, who only seek their own liberation.16. The wise: bodhisattvas,17. Spontaneously-present: the buddhas.18. There is another possible interpretation of this stanza. It continues the comparisonof the previous stanza, likening the four kinds of being to theearth etc., whereas the buddha is like space.