All beings shall be Buddha. This book unfolds the vow that abandons no being. Ven. ANDA MOLINAN reveals a path on which Awareness and Bodhicitta-the Knower and the Lover-fulfil one another. Original Buddha-nature is not merely a future potential: it is the actual and absolute nature of all beings. From Mah¿nirv¿¿a radiates the Most Sacred Eternal Tath¿gata-comprehensively including all, one with all, and free from all.
The Lotus S¿tra opens the gate of the One Vehicle and the Buddha's one intention: to guide all beings to complete Buddhahood. The Mah¿parinirv¿¿a S¿tra opens the Secret Treasury of the Eternal Tath¿gata and the Buddha-nature of all beings. Awakening does not manufacture this original nature; it reveals what has always been true. Its realisation calls for truthfulness, practice, devotion and the relinquishment of possession.
The Four Noble Truths, dependent origination, karma, mindfulness, morality, concentration and wisdom illuminate suffering and its conditions. Individual liberation remains honoured, while the Buddha-path opens towards the complete Buddhahood of all. Wisdom becomes comprehensive; compassion leaves no being outside.
The Five Koti unfold along Mind and Heart, wisdom and love. They reveal movement and existence; stillness and non-existence; their oneness; freedom from both; and the Fifth Koti, the Buddha-field comprehensively including all. Here the Knower and Lover become purified and comprehensive, yet even this fullness must open into Knowing and Loving without an owner.
At the depth of Mind and Heart are Knowing and Loving; at their totality are No Knowing and No Loving. Here occurs the Great Transformation-the Deathless Death. This is not biological death or annihilation, but the falling away of every independent owner, centre and self-standing ground of Knowing and Loving.
No Knower - No Knowing - Knowing; No Lover - No Loving - Loving. Being Aware, Being One and Comprehensively Including All are the Three Radiances of the Eternal Tathagata. No separate includer remains, and no being is excluded. Freedom belongs to all three.
Non-Self releases attachment to 'I' and 'mine'. True Self is not an immortal personal owner, but the unpossessable fullness of the Eternal Tath¿gata. All beings are Buddha/Mah¿nirv¿¿a in their actual and absolute state; this does not make ignorance wisdom or cruelty compassion. Ignorance obscures recognition without abolishing original nature. The Great Transformation reveals what all beings have always been.
The teaching enters everyday life through listening, speaking, giving and responding to suffering. Harm must be acknowledged, responsibility accepted and sincere remorse embodied in changed conduct. Forgiveness frees the Heart from hatred without erasing accountability or exposing the vulnerable to renewed harm. The Thirty Perfections unfold through devotion, generosity, patience, wisdom and compassion.
After the Great Transformation, life expresses the Tath¿gata's sole intention: guiding every being towards complete Buddhahood.
All Beings Shall Be Buddha invites readers to clarify Mind, deepen Heart and allow the Dharma to transform their relationships and conduct. Its horizon is the complete Buddhahood of all beings; its ground is original Buddha-nature; its consummation is Mah¿nirv¿¿a. All beings shall be Buddha. All Dharma is Mah¿nirv¿¿a.
