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Buddha Qualities

• Know the qualities we want to achieve.
• We can never completely describe the qualities of the buddha. A bird can fly far and high, but it can never exhaust all of space.
• Think about the suffering of sentient beings. Who can give us protection? Again and again, recall the great qualities of the Three Jewels.
• We must attain these qualities for the sake of all sentient beings.
• Buddha has more qualities than us. Remember this when doing prostrations.

• Buddha knows the result of every action in precise detail [cause and effect].
• Buddha is never in a bad mood.
• Unceasing enlightened activity is buddha quality.
• Buddha has mind that wants to benefit.
• Buddha has continuous compassion. As long as sentient beings remain, buddha will remain.
• Only buddha can turn the wheel of dharma. You need Buddha qualities to do that.
• Buddha is able to teach without mistakes.
• Buddha knows what teachings are suitable for beings.
• Everything the buddha says or does has some meaning.
• One verse of dharma can liberate countless beings.
• Buddha is not afraid to proclaim he has attained wisdom.
• Buddha can manifest anywhere in samsara to benefit beings.
• Buddha can teach in any language. Buddha is the teacher.
• Buddha can emanate in any form to benefit beings - a common person, an animal, tree, waves, sound of wind passing through trees.
• Buddha knows what is possible and what is not possible.
• Buddha knows when the time is right. Truth has to be said at the right time, otherwise it can harm.
• Buddha knows our predispositions.
• Buddha treats beings without bias - buddhists and non-buddhists alike. Buddha has no favorites.
• Buddha is liberated from samsara and nirvana. This is why buddha is source of refuge.
• Buddha has unobstructed clairvoyance of past, present and future.
• Buddha is beyond birth and death.
• Buddha has worked for three countless aeons. This is very rare This is why we say the Three Jewels are rare.