January 18^th, 2025

Q: By what expedient means can we turn our minds around instantly to realize our inherent essence?

A: It is just your own mind; what further expedient means would you apply? If you apply expedient means to go on to seek intellectual understanding, this is like wanting to see your own eyes because you think you have no eyes if you cannot see them.

So it is also with one’s own open awareness. Since it is one’s own mind, how can one yet seek to see it? If you just seek understanding, then you do not understand it. Just know that which does not understand; this is seeing essence.