The Buddha taught 84,000 methods to help sentient beings with different root apparatus to verify the power of the mind. The key points can be condensed into one:The mind is the source of all experience, and if you change the direction of the mind, you can change the quality of all experience. When you transform your mind, everything you experience will also be transformedIt's a bit like wearing glasses with yellow lenses and everything you see suddenly turns yellow. If you wear lenses in other colors, everything you see will change. "Clarity" is the creative side of the mind, and everything you experience is through the power of your own awareness.
The creativity of the mind is limitless, and this creativity is the natural result of the unity of light and emptiness. "The unity of clear and empty" is called "magapa" in Tibetan, that is"Accessibility", also translated"Strength"or"Capabilities"It refers to the autonomous ability of the mind to experience all things. The more you know about your mind, the more you will be able to start practicing how to take control of your experiences of pain, sadness, fear, anxiety, etc., which will make you stop interfering with your life as easily as you used to, and what you once saw as an obstacle will become an opportunity for you to gain insight into the unhindered nature of your mind.
Tulku Udje Rinpoche once said, "When you know your mind, you don't see anything, it's the supreme insight, and the moment you see it, you see it, and the moment you see it, you are free." This "seeing" may not last more than a few seconds, perhaps not more than three snaps of a finger. After that short period of time, we are either carried away by thoughts or become forgetful, and this happens to all mundane sentient beings. From beginninglessness until now, we have been forgetful, constantly carried away by thoughts. The moment you know the mind, you already see the mind, and you don't miss or miss anything. It's not like the void staring at the void itself, because the void doesn't see anything. When your conscious mind knows itself, you will immediately see that there is nothing to see, and at the same moment, you have seen the mind. At that moment, there was no thought, because the thought of the moment had naturally disappeared. Whether you're talking about Mahamudra, Dzogchen or Madhyamaka, the moment you know the nature of the mind is called the "ordinary mind." When we know the mind, don't do anything, don't try to correct it or improve it; Don't modify it because of the motive of hope or fear by accepting one and rejecting the other; Don't do anything with it.
Feelings of pleasure and pain pervade all stages of life, and massages, gourmet food, or hot baths are considered pleasurable physiological experiences; Finger burns, injections, or being trapped in a car on a hot day are considered painful physiological experiences. In fact, whether you perceive these situations as painful or pleasurable experiences does not depend on the physiological sensory perception itself, but on how you perceive the situation.