Our original Buddha-Nature is, in highest truth, devoid of any atom of objectivity. It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy—and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awaking to it yourself. That which is before you is it, in all its fullness, utterly complete. There is naught beside. Even if you go through all the stages of a Bodhisattva’s progress towards Buddhahood, one by one; when at last, in a single flash, you attain to full realization, you will only: be realizing the Buddha-Nature which has been with you all the time; and by all the forgoing stages you will have added to it nothing at all. You will come to look upon those aeons of work and achieve- ment as no better than unreal actions performed in a dream. That is why the Tathagata said: ‘I truly attained nothing from complete, unexcelled Enlightenment.