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From Buddha-Nature
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In a pregnant woman’s womb,
A child exists but is not seen.
Just so, dharmadhātu is not seen,
When it’s covered by afflictions. +
The path of awakening involves both transforming the mind/brain and uncovering the wonderful true nature that was there all along. +
Buddha-nature is not an object of intellectual enquiry. +
Buddha-nature is the ultimate topic of both sūtra and mantra Buddhist teachings. +
All sentient beings possess buddha-nature; It remains obscured by myriad defiling emotions, like a lamp in a vase. +
What is buddha-nature? The primordial innate freedom of every mind that is blissful and full of wisdom and compassion itself. +
The Buddha has taught that all sentient beings possess buddha-nature and the Buddha is permanent, eternal, unchanging, immovable and blissful. +
What is known as buddha-nature is the expanse of nirvāṇa. +
All phenomena are perfectly awakened from the beginning. +
Why wouldn’t one attain enlightenment if sought with diligence because all of us sentient beings possess buddha-nature, the cause of buddhahood. +
Mind, in essence, is luminous and pure buddha-nature. +
This ordinary consciousness is the sphere of reality and the essence of the Buddha. +
The idea that the doctrine of the ''tathāgatagarbha'' and buddha-nature is one of the supreme teachings of the Mahāyāna is explicitly stated besides in the ''Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra''. +
The single essential point of all the doctrines of Sūtra and Mantra is only this all-pervasive buddha-nature. +
All sentient beings are of the same spiritual gene and possess buddha-nature. +
Although your true nature may be hidden momentarily by stress and worry, anger and unfulfilled longings, it still continues to exist. +
Mahāmati, the Bodhisattvas and Mahāsattvas of the present and future should not construe and grasp this a self. +
The nature of the mind is luminous and has never any affliction. +
The single vehicle of the Buddha is taught.
Hold this for every one will become Victors. +
Mahāmati, Buddha-nature is the basis of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, and happiness and suffering. +
