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The Changeless Nature

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34 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Changeless</strong> <strong>Nature</strong>34 Those whose seed is aspiration for the supreme yana,whose mother is prajna, originator of the buddha's qualities,for whom meditative stability is a comfortable womband compassion a nanny — these are sons of buddhas born.35 Its result has the transcendental qualitiesof purity, identity, happiness and permanence.Its function is revulsion for sufferingaccompanied by an aspiration, a longing, for peace.36 In brief the result of theserepresents the remedy to boththe four ways of straying from dharmakayaand to their four antidotes.37 This is purity because its nature is pureand all karmic impurities have been removed.It is true identity because all complications of 'self'or 'no-self' have been absolutely quelled.38 It is happiness through the five aggregates',which are of a mental nature, and also their causes' demise.It is permanence since the sameness,of samsara and nirvana, has been realised.39 Those of compassionate love have, with prajna,completely cut through all self-cherishing.<strong>The</strong>y will not want to enter personal nirvanabecause they dearly care for every being.Hence by reliance upon these meansto enlightenment — wisdom and compassion —the deeply-realised are neither insamsara nor personal nirvana's quiescence.40 Were there no buddha-naturethere would be no discontent with sufferingnor desire, effort and aspiration for nirvana.

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