When you discover the priceless gem of enlightenment, you can use it to help others reveal their own treaure. Its powers and uses are inexhaustible. No matter how much you give, there is as much left when you finish as when you started. The sutras call it the mani pearl, but it is your self-nature. When you reveal your self-nature, wisdom manifests to help yourself and others. Wisdom cannot be squandered. You do not have to hoard it, and you do not have to ration it.

Within the priceless gem are the three bodies, the four wisdoms, the six psychic powers and eight liberations. These are expedient means to help sentient beings attain liberation. I will list them, but I will not explain them in detail.

The three bodies are the Dharma body, the retribution body, and the transformation body.

The four wisdoms are the great mirror wisdom, the wisdom of equality, the profound observing wisdom, and the perfecting wisdom.

The six psychic powers are divine sight, divine hearing, knowledge of others' thoughts, knowledge of former lives of oneself and others, power to appear anywhere at will, and insight into the destruction of outflows. Outflows are thoughts, words and actions that derive from attachment to a self; insight into the destruction of outflows liberates one from birth and death.

The eight liberations are: (1) liberation arising from meditation of impurity with attachment to form; (2) liberation arising from meditation of impurity without attachment to form; (3) liberation from desire by meditation on purity; (4) liberation in the state of boundless space; (5) liberation in the state of boundless consciousness; (6) liberation in the state of nothingness; (7) liberation in the state of neither thought nor absence of thought; (8) liberation in which there is extinction of sensation and perception.