The Changeless Nature
The Changeless Nature
The Changeless Nature
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Buddha <strong>Nature</strong> 51country. Since this man, having gone abroad, is missing, the picturein all its parts cannot be completed. Thus goes the example.<strong>The</strong> '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. <strong>The</strong>refore, 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 <strong>Changeless</strong> 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.