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From Buddha-Nature
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You awakened to peaceful buddhahood without beginning, middle, or end.<br>Upon your self-awakening, you taught the fearless everlasting path so that the unawakened may awake.<br>I pay homage to you who wield the supreme sword and vajra of wisdom and compassion, cut the sprouts of suffering to pieces,<br>And break through the wall of doubts concealed by the thicket of various views. +
If the buddha element did not exist,<br>There would be no weariness of suffering,<br>Nor would there be the wish, striving,<br>And aspiration for nirvāṇa. +
This seeing of the flaws of suffering and the qualities of happiness<br>In [saṃsāric] existence and nirvāṇa<br>Occurs [only] when the disposition exists<br>Because it does not occur in those without the disposition. +
Just like the ocean, [the disposition of the victors] is an inexhaustible source<br>Of immeasurable jewels [in the form of its] qualities.<br>Just like a lamp, it is endowed with<br>Inseparable qualities by its nature. +
Since the basic element consists of the dharmakāya,<br>As well as the wisdom and the compassion of the victor,<br>It is taught to be like the ocean<br>In terms of a vessel, jewels, and water. +
In the stainless foundation, the supernatural knowledges,<br>Wisdom, and stainlessness are inseparable from suchness.<br>Therefore, they are similar, respectively, to<br>The light, heat, and color of a lamp. +
Manifesting differently as the suchness<br>Of ordinary beings, noble ones, and perfect buddhas,<br>The disposition of the victors is taught<br>To sentient beings by those who see true reality. +
Ordinary beings are mistaken,<br>Those who see reality are the opposite,<br>And tathāgatas are most exactly unmistaken<br>And free from reference points. +
Its being impure, its being both impure and pure,<br>And its being completely pure, in due order,<br>Are expressed as "the basic element of sentient beings,"<br>"Bodhisattva," and "tathāgata." +
The basic element that consists of these<br>Six topics, such as [its] nature,<br>Is taught through three names<br>In its three phases. +
Just as space with its character<br>Of nonconceptuality is present everywhere,<br>So the stainless basic element that is<br>The nature of the mind is omnipresent. +
Being unconditioned, effortless,<br>Not being produced through other conditions,<br>And possessing wisdom, compassion, and power,<br>Buddhahood is endowed with the two welfares. +
[Its] general characteristic is that it pervades<br>Flaws, qualities, and perfection,<br>Just as space [pervades] inferior, middling,<br>And supreme kinds of forms. +
Since it is adventitiously associated with flaws<br>And since it is naturally endowed with qualities,<br>Its true nature of being changeless<br>Is the same before as after. +
Just as all-pervasive space<br>Is untainted due to its subtlety,<br>So this [basic element] that abides everywhere<br>In sentient beings is untainted. +
Just as the worlds everywhere<br>Are born and perish in space,<br>So the faculties arise and perish<br>In the unconditioned basic element. +
Just as space was never<br>Burned before by any fires,<br>So this [basic element] is not consumed<br>By the fires of death, sickness, and aging. +
Earth rests upon water, water on wind,<br>And wind on space,<br>[But] space does not rest on the elements<br>Of wind, water, or earth. +
Likewise, skandhas, dhātus, and faculties<br>Rest on karma and afflictions,<br>And karma and afflictions always rest on<br>
Improper mental engagement. +
Improper mental engagement<br>Rests on the purity of the mind,<br>[But] this nature of the mind does not rest<br>On any of these phenomena. +
