new fortune.

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@@ -41168,4 +41168,15 @@ nirvana, one takes refuge in the Three Jewels, according to the Mahayana,
 until one gains enlightenment.
   -- Kunzang Pelden, in "Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech", published by
      Shambhala Publications
+~
+Just as a precious jewel, the sky, and water are by nature pure, likewise the
+tathagatagarbha or dharmadhatu is by nature always free from the defilement of
+the mental poisons and thus utterly pure.  Whereas this is the meaning of the
+essence, the cause that completely purifies the adventitious defilements
+consists of devotion towards the Mahayana Dharma, of highest discriminative or
+analytical wisdom realizing the non-existence of a self, of limitless samadhi
+endowed with bliss, and of great compassion focusing on sentient beings as its
+point of reference.  The realization arising from these [purifying causes] is
+to be known as enlightenment.
+  -- Maitreya, in "Buddha Nature", published by Shambhala Publications