r0b’s Reviews > Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra with Commentary > Status Update

‘The fact that the dharmakaya is all-embracing can be compared to the way in which light diffuses and embraces everything within its reach. The dharmakaya pervades all phenomena as, for example, butter pervades milk, in the sense that all milk can be turned into butter.’

...In the view of the Prasangika Madhyamaka, non-existence of self is complete peace in the sense of complete freedom from the conceptual elaboration consisting of the appearance of duality. This is the true state or nature of everything (dharmatā).’

‘The ultimate selflessness of persons and phenomena is non-existence of self as taught by the Prasangika Madhyamaka. Non-existence of self is taught in gradual stages. In the view of the shravakas, for instance, it is be understood solely as the selflessness of persons, whereas in the view of the Svatantrika Madhyamaka it denotes sheer voidness comparable to empty space....

If an inexhaustible treasure were buried
in the ground beneath a poor man’s house,
the man would not know of it, and the treasure
would not speak and tell him “I am here!”

Likewise a precious treasure is contained in each being’s mind.
This is its true state,
which is free from defilement. Nothing is to be added and
nothing removed...