The Changeless Nature

62 The Changeless Nature128 the buddha, the honey, the kernel, the gold,the treasure, the great tree, the precious image,the universal monarch and the golden figure.129 Similarly, it is said that the shellof defilements covering the nature of beingsis beginningless and unconnected with itand that the stainlessnessof that nature of mind is beginningless.130 Desire, aversion and ignorance,these in their strongly active stateor as latent imprints,that to be abandoned through insight,that to be abandoned through cultivation,the impurities present in the impureand the impurities present in the pure —131 these nine have been illustrated bythe examples of the lotus 'shell' and so on.The 'shell' of subsidiary defilementsdivides into infinite categories.132 Summarised briefly, the nine impurities,desire and so on, have been well illustratedthrough nine examples — the lotus 'shell'and so forth respectively.133 The pollutions respectively causethe four impurities of ordinary beings,one of arhants, two of beings training in dharmaand two impurities of the wise.134 The mind is delightedby the 'mud-born' — the lotusbut later becomes dismayed —such is desire's happiness.