![]() Nothing else can be called the ‘genuine mind’ without reservations or hesitations. ‘Genuine mind’ here refers only to the purity or the ‘saupādisesa-nibbāna’ of the arahants. All that appears is its own nature by itself, just its own timeless nature. ![]() We’ll see-when the mind is cleansed so that it is fully pure and nothing can become involved with it-that no fear appears in the mind at all. Even though fear and worry aren’t directly an affair of the mind, they still manage to make it tremble. As a result, the mind is filled with worries and fears. If even the least little thing disturbs it, it’s afraid. Whatever happens-a little pain, a lot of pain-it’s afraid. Its behavior falls under the sway of the deceits of defilement, which make it worry and fear, dreading death, dreading everything. We have been taking all sorts of counterfeit things as our self all along, and so the mind’s behavior is not in keeping with its true nature. Our own true affair, the affair that’s ours pure and simple-the affair of the mind pure and simple-is that we don’t have the power to be our own true self. Birth and death are an affair of defilement. The fact that we’re unaware that birth and death are things that have always been with the mind infected by defilement, is because ignorance itself is an affair of defilement. This non-disintegration is something that lies beyond the three characteristics and the common laws of nature, but we’re not aware of it because conventional realities become involved with the mind and surround it, so that the mind’s behavior conforms thoroughly to theirs. This deathlessness is something that lies beyond disintegration. It spins with the things that have the power to make it spin, but the natural power of the mind itself is that it knows and does not die. Even then, though, it spins in a way that doesn’t disintegrate or fall apart. The extent to which the mind does follow these laws is because the things that fall under these three characteristics come spinning in and become involved with it, so that it goes spinning along with them. Although all phenomena without exception fall under the laws of the three characteristics-stress, inconstancy, and not-self-the true nature of the mind doesn’t fall under these laws. Normally the mind is radiant and always ready to make contact with everything of every sort.
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