The Changeless Nature

Buddha Nature 51country. Since this man, having gone abroad, is missing, the picturein all its parts cannot be completed. Thus goes the example.The 'artists' are generosity, right conduct, forbearance etc.Voidness (dharmakaya), endowed with every finest aspect, is said tobe like the fully-completed picture.Prajna, jnana 36 and perfect freedom from impurity are comparableto sunlight, sunrays and the orb of the sun because they arerespectively luminous, radiant and pure; also because they are quiteinseparable. Therefore, until the achievement of buddhahood, there isno nirvana — just as, without sunlight and sunrays, the sun could neverbe seen.Thus has the victor's essence been described through a ten-pointpresentation. One should understand from the following examplesits presence within the confines of the defilements.35 .C. 9 Examples Showing the Purificationof Stains from this Changeless EssenceSimilar to: —1. a buddha in a decaying lotus,2. honey amidst bees,3. grains inside their husks,4. gold in filth,5. a treasure in the ground,6. shoots and so on piercing through their fruits,7. a buddha-statue inside tattered rags,8. a future monarch in a poor and ugly woman's womb and9. an image of precious metal inside a clay mouldthis buddha-nature is present in all beings but obscured by the impuritiesof the temporary accidental impurities.