The Changeless Nature

54 The Changeless Nature104 The man who tries to get the honey surrounded by myriads of beesdisperses all the bees and procures the honey as he planned.The untainted intelligence which is in all beings is like the honey:the buddhas, skilful victors over bee-like defilements, like the man.105 Kernels of grains, still in their husks, are unusable for man.Whoever wants them as food must remove them from their husks.106 Similarly, whilst buddhahood, present in all beings but mixedwith defilement-impurities, has not been from defilement freedthen buddha-activity in the three worlds will not be accomplished.107 Incompletely-threshed kernels of rice, buckwheat and barleythat have not been de-husked still have their husks and beards.Just as these are not usable, tasty food for men,likewise the 'lord of all qualities' present in living beingsand whose corps has not yet been freed from defilement,will not give the taste of the joy of dharmato beings afflicted by defilement-hunger.108 The gold of a man on a journey droppedinto a place containing filth arot.Being of indestructible nature,for many centuries that gold remainedin that same place yet quite unchanged.109 A god with perfect divine vision noticed it there told someone,"There is gold here. Once you have cleansed this most valued thingthen do what can be done with such a precious substance. "110 In a similar way, the Victors see the quality of beings,which has sunken into the filth-like defilements,and shower upon them true dharma's rainthat they be purified of defilement's mire.