The Buddha said: "Every being has Buddha-Nature. This is the Self. Such Self has, from the very beginning, been under cover of innumerable defilements. That is why man cannot see it. [Imagine that] there is a poor woman here. She has true gold concealed in her house. None of the people of her house, whether big or small, know of it. But there is a stranger, who, through expediency, . . . digs out the gold that had lain hidden. The woman sees it, [and] is gladdened . . . The case is the same with the Buddha-Nature which every person has . . .They . . . cannot see the Buddha-Nature which is within, even though they possess it. [For] they are reigned over by greed, lust, anger, and ignorance."
The Nirvana Sutra
Photo: Golden River Birch leaves and the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, Red Feather Shambhala Center, CO; October 7, 2013
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