The Mind That Creates Conditions and the Mind That Sees Original Nature Are Different
All study and all scriptures ultimately return to the one place called mind. Yet depending on how we see the mind, the path of ordinary beings and the path of sages become different.
Ordinary beings follow the senses and thoughts, creating conditions, and those conditions continue the stream of birth and death. By contrast, practitioners penetrate the deeper place of mind, the original nature, cut off the bondage of new conditions, and see the fruit of nirvana.
In difficult terms, this is the study of distinguishing the stored habits of alaya consciousness from the original nature of the tathagatagarbha mind. Put simply, it asks whether we will keep shaking on the surface of the mind, or directly see the root of the mind.
Today too, may you not be pulled only by the conditions made by the senses and habits, but look deeply toward the root place of the mind.
Ordinary beings follow the senses and thoughts, creating conditions, and those conditions continue the stream of birth and death. By contrast, practitioners penetrate the deeper place of mind, the original nature, cut off the bondage of new conditions, and see the fruit of nirvana. In difficult terms, this is the study of distinguishing the stored habits of alaya consciousness from the original nature of the tathagatagarbha mind. Put simply, it asks whether we will keep shaking on the surface of the mind, or directly see the root of the mind.
