Q: What is Suchness (Ju-ju, Bhutatathata)?
A: Suchness signifies immutability. Since mind is immutable, we term it Suchness. Hence it can be known that all the Buddhas of the past attained enlightenment by conducting themselves in accord with this immutability. With the Buddhas of the present it is likewise and so will it be with the Buddhas of the future. Since all practice, whether past, present, or future, culminates in the same attainment of enlightenment, it is called ‘the attainment of Suchness’. The Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra says:
‘Thus has it ever been with all the Buddhas; thus will it be with Maitreya and with every other sentient being as well. Why so? Because the Buddha-nature is eternally and uninterruptedly self-existent.
— Chan master Huihai, A Treatise on the Essential Gateway to Truth by Means of Instantaneous Awakening
Submitted June 23, 2017 at 04:18AM by Dhammakayaram http://ift.tt/2sGRQ3E
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