Gold may be discovered;
If there is no buddha basis, whatever you do,
Only emotivity is engendered.Furthermore, in the second turning of the wheel, in the sutrayana, as also in the
final turning, the victorious, perfected Buddha Shakyamuni, in accord with the
supreme view of definitive meaning that was taught to show the potential of
buddha-nature, says in The Medium Matrix Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight
Thousand Verses,
The luminous mind is not dualistic mind;
Its nature is clear light.And also,
Absolute buddha-nature is empty in essence, and its nature is without any
substance, without any intention, and without any attribute. Luminous mind
is not relative mind.And in the final turning of the wheel it is said,
It is not like the emptiness of nothingness—like a vacuum—but rather it is
natural radiance; appearing by itself as knowledge, compassion, and power, it
is clear light in its nature.Its clear light nature is first evoked in the final turning of the wheel. The
emptiness of the second turning and the clear light of the final turning are
completely consistent. Emptiness and clear light are inseparable, and therein
arises the spontaneity of primal awareness that is all-embracing compassion. In
the presentation of the causal basis, buddha-nature is threefold—empty in essence,
clear in its nature, and compassionate in its all-pervading emanation. If we
examine buddha-nature from the absolute perspective, since it cannot be
established as anything that is not emptiness, and it is neither impermanent nor
permanent, its essence is identified as emptiness.
If we apply ordinary sensory cognition and inferential cognition to discover
buddha-nature, it is like congenitally blind people exploring an elephant with
their hands—they can never know the beast in its entirety. We might assume then
that buddha-nature cannot be established by logic, but this is not so. After we
establish that the unity of emptiness and appearances has neither existence nor
nonexistence, nor both existence and nonexistence, nor neither existence nor
nonexistence, so that it is without ontological status and that as such it has no
sensorially perceptible attributes, we have proven buddha-nature to be emptiness
itself, an absolute. The natural radiance of the emptiness of buddha-nature is
uncrystallizing clear light. Appearances and the absolute spaciousness and primal
awareness of the natural perfection self-arise like the sun and its rays. This pure
conventional logic of the primal awareness of appearances establishes the reality