Tathagatagarba Buddha Nature
For us to achieve enlightenment – the basic cause is our tathagatagarba,the element of enlightenment we possess within.
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Tadagata Buddha
The Buddha referred to himself as the Tathagatha, the 'thus gone one'- the one who has reached enlightenment.
Nothing is a thing.
No Self in me or Buddha or any seintient being.
Buddha mind is very angry today! Joke!