The Changeless Nature

In the perfectly-pure phase: buddhahoodi. Its nature is not to alter into anything elsebecause it has inexhaustible qualitiesBuddha Nature 47ii. It is a refuge for beings because it has no future limits,being present until samsara's end.iii. It is always non-dual because it does not conceptualise.iv. It is also of an indestructible characterbecause, by nature, it is the uncreate.This perfectly-pure buddha-nature has no birth because it ispermanent, no death because it is everlasting, no harm from sicknessbecause it is peace and no ageing because it is changeless.I. It has no birth, not even in a mental body,because it is permanent.II. It has no death, not even the 'inconceivable' changeof death and transmigration, because it is everlasting.III. It is unharmed by the disease of the finer karmic imprintsbecause it is peace.IV. It has no ageing, as an accumulated product of untainted karma, 31because it is the immutable.This uncreate space has the attributes of permanence and so forth,which should be known respectively through the first pair of verses,i. e. (i) and (I), likewise the next pair, (ii) and (II), the next pair, (iii)and (III), and the last pair (iv) and (IV)."Because it is endowed with inexhaustible qualities, the perfectlypurebuddha-nature has the attribute of permanence, the quality ofnot changing into anything else. Because it equals the furthest end, ithas the attribute of everlastingness, the nature of a refuge.