“Also, Oh good man! As an
example, there is a medicine in the
Himalayas called 'pleasing taste'. Its
taste is very sweet. It grows hidden under the dense growth of plants, and we
cannot see it easily. But from its scent, we can come to know the whereabouts of this
medicine. In times past, there was a Chakravartin who, placing wooden tubes
here and there in the Himalayas, collected this medicine. When it had ripened, it flowed out and entered the tubes. Its taste was perfect. When
the king (Chakravartin) died, this medicine has become sour, salty, sweet, bitter, spicy or
mild. So, what's unique, has different tastes according to the different
places. The true taste of the medicine remains in the mountains, it's like the
full moon. Any common mortal,
sterile in virtues, can work hard, dig in and try, but cannot get it. Only a
Chakravartin, high in virtues, appearing in the world can arrive at the true value of this medicine because of happy circumstantial concatenation.
The same is the case [here]. Oh good man! The taste of the hidden storehouse of the Tathagata
is also like this. Shrouded by the flourish of defilements, clad in ignorance, the
beings cannot hope see it (or
feel it). We speak of a 'unique taste'. This applies, for instance, to the Buddha-Nature. Due to
the presence of defilements, several tastes appear, such as the realms of hell, animals, of hungry pretas, devas, human beings, men,
women, non-men, non-women, Kshatriya, Brahmin, Vaishya and Sudra .
The Buddha-Nature is strong and vigorous. It is hard to destroy. Therefore, there is nothing that can kill it. If there were something that could indeed kill it, the Buddha-Nature would die. [But] nothing can indeed destroy such Buddha-Nature. Nothing of this nature can ever be cut. 'The nature of the Self is nothing other than the hidden storehouse of the Tathagata’. This storehouse can never be crushed, set on fire, or extinguished. Although it is not possible to destroy or see it, one can know it when attains the unsurpassed enlightenment. Hence, there is nothing that can indeed kill it."
The Buddha-Nature is strong and vigorous. It is hard to destroy. Therefore, there is nothing that can kill it. If there were something that could indeed kill it, the Buddha-Nature would die. [But] nothing can indeed destroy such Buddha-Nature. Nothing of this nature can ever be cut. 'The nature of the Self is nothing other than the hidden storehouse of the Tathagata’. This storehouse can never be crushed, set on fire, or extinguished. Although it is not possible to destroy or see it, one can know it when attains the unsurpassed enlightenment. Hence, there is nothing that can indeed kill it."
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