The Changeless Nature

Buddha Nature 71There are five mistakes:1. faint-heartedness,2. contempt for beings with lesser understanding,3. to believe in the untrue4 to denigrate the true nature and5. to cherish oneself above all else.The Buddha taught about the presence of the buddha nature inall beings so that those in whom the above faults were present wouldbe able to give them up.More detailed explanationAccording to the teachings of the second dharmachakra, theultimate true nature is always devoid of any composite phenomenon.The negative affects, karma and the full maturation of these — theaggregates etc. — have been said to be like a cloud and so on.The negative affects have been said to be like clouds. Karma islikened to that which is experienced in dreams and the full ripeningof karma and the negative affects i. e. the aggregates are likened toan illusion or an apparition.The preceding second dharmachakra was presented that way.Then, further to it, the presence of the buddha nature was taught inthe ultimate teaching on the changeless continuity 55 , as here, so thatthese five faults could be abandoned:1. Not hearing such teaching about the buddha nature, some peoplebecome disheartened through mistaken self-contempt and sobodhicitta 56 will not develop in them.2. Some people, when proud, think, "I am the best" because bodhicittahas dawned in them. They strongly entertain the idea thatthose in whom bodhicitta has not arisen are inferiors.3. Right understanding will not arise in those who think in such away and therefore, since they absorb the truth in a wrong way,they will not understand the real truth 57 .