Luminous, but veiled by
alien defilement is the Mind:
The exalted
Buddha once said:
Friends, I know of no other single thing, so quickly changing as this
swift mind,
insofar as it is not easy to find just one other phenomena changing equally
fast..
Shining bright, friends, is this mind, yet it is obstructed by
external defilements.
Naturally luminous, is that pure mind, when it is
safely
released and freed from
these alien impurities. Innately radiant is this mind, though
it is soiled by these
accumulated foreign obscurations. This, the ordinary unlearned persons cannot
understand as it really is.. I tell you, that is why uneducated ordinary
persons
neither meditate, nor develop mentally. Luminous is that mind,
friends,
when it is
purified and released from these fermented pollutions. This does
the
learned Noble
disciple fully understand as it really is. I tell you, that is why
that
educated Noble
disciple develops and steadily improves mentally by training meditation
regularly...
More on the Magnificent
Luminous Mind:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Control.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mind_Reading.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_and_Bright.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Core_Duality.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Mentality.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Omniscient_Quantum_Mind.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Immersing_the_Body_in_the_Mind.htm
Source: The Numerical Discourses of
the Buddha: Ańguttara Nikāya I 8-11:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.8-10.htm
