The Changeless Nature

D. Detailed Explanation of these 8 Points1 & 2 NATURE AND CAUSE(a. Purity and How it is Achieved - Brief)Enlightenment 77NatureThat which has been described as "Its nature is lucid clarity" 1 islike the sun and the sky, obscured by the thick veils of those multitudesof 'clouds' — the negative affects and cognitive 2 obscurations,which are but incidental.Buddhahood is stainless, endowed with all the buddha-qualities,permanent, everlasting and unchanging.CauseIts achievement depends upon non-conceptual and analytical jnanaconcerning all phenomena.(b. More Detailed Explanation)bl. NatureBuddhahood is in itself indivisible 3 yet can be analysed throughcategorising its qualities of purity 4 — the two characteristics of jnanaand freedom from impurity — which are like the sun and the sky'respectively.b2. The Way it Possesses these QualitiesThis lucid clarity is uncreated. It is that which pervades all withoutany differentiation, being possessed of all the qualities of buddhahood,far greater in number than the sand-grains of the River Ganges.b3. The Way it is ObscuredThe defilement-obscuration and the cognitive-obscuration are saidto be like clouds over the true nature of mind, since they are by theirnature non-existent, they spread everywhere and they are but incidental.