Tao Te Ching

“Since these enlightened qualities—identical in permeating all buddhas and ordinary beings alike—are already and forever present, they are not obscure by the darkness of flaws and faults.”

— Longchenpa ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་པ། 1308 – 1364 CE via Padma Translation Committee
(Longchen Rabjampa, Drimé Özer)
from The Basic Space of Phenomena