Nothing can ever destroy the Buddha Nature. The nature of self is nothing but the undisclosed storehouse of the Tathagata. Such a storehouse can never be broken, put to fire, or plundered. Though it is not possible to destroy or see it, one can know it when one attains the unsurpassed enlightenment. 11. Buddhism. Mahaparinirvana Sutra 220 There is no changing the words of God; that is the mighty triumph. 12. Islam. Quran 10.64 The Truth is that which is received from Heaven. By nature it is the way it is and cannot be changed. 13. Taoism. Chuang Tzu 31 - - - - - - - - - - - - Tao Te Ching 6: Cf. Tao Te Ching 4, p. 525. This describes the eternal feminine spirit; see p. 147. Exodus 3.13-15: This passage, from Moses encounter with God at the burning bush, gives the traditional etymology of the name of God, the Tetragrammaton YHWH, as The Eternal, I Am. This verse is also the foundation of Christian and Jewish theological discussion of Gods unchangeability and eternity. For another traditional Jewish interpretation of this passage, see Torah Yesharah, p. 506. Mahaparinivana Sutra 8.12: Cf. the concept of Tathatagagarbha in Lions Roar of Queen Srimala 13, p. 117. Chuang Tzu 31: Cf. Chuang Tzu 6, p. 152. - - - - - - - - - - - - Change has neither thought nor action, because it is in the state of absolute quiet and inactivity, and when acted on, it immediately penetrates all things. If it were not the most spirit-like thing in the world, how can it take part in this universal transformation? 14. Confucianism. I Ching, Great Commentary 1.10.4 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever. 15. Christianity. Bible, Hebrews 13.
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