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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. +
O King! Mind is inconceivable and always luminous by nature. Its buddha-nature remains like gold in the rocks. +
Thine own intellect, which is now voidness, yet not to be regarded as of the voidness of nothingness, but as being the intellect itself, unobstructed, shining, thrilling, and blissful, is the very consciousness, the All-good Buddha. +
The buddha-nature is the cause, precious and supreme human body, the support, the virtuous master is the agent, and his instructions, the expedient technique. The result is the body of the perfect Buddha, who engages in actions for the world with no thought. +
What is ''rigpa''? The so-called ''rigpa'' is inner awareness free from conceptualisation. It is emptiness endowed with all aspects. +
Buddha nature is eternal, pure, real, virtuous, and will be realized by everyone in the future. +
Mahāmati, what I taught as buddha-nature is not like the self advocated by the non-Buddhists. Mahāmati, what the fully enlightened Buddhas teach as buddha-nature refers to emptiness, the ultimate, nirvāṇa, the unborn, the uncharacterized, and the wishless. +
The Buddha's teaching on the fundamental nature of the human mind has always been a great source of inspiration and hope for me. +
Even those born as animals have the buddha-nature. +
Buddha-nature is taught to be the immutable reality that is unborn and unceasing like space. +
If there were no buddha-element, one wouldn’t be unhappy with suffering. +
Every being has the potential for perfection, just as every sesame seed is permeated with oil. +
All sentient beings possess buddha-nature. +
