“Our true nature could be compared to the sky, and the confusion of the mind to clouds. Some days the sky is completely obscured by clouds. When we are down on the ground, looking up, it is very difficult to believe there is anything else there but clouds. Yet we only have to fly in a plane to discover up above a limitless expanse of blue sky..

 So where exactly is this buddha nature? It is in the sky-like nature of our mind. Utterly open, free, and limitless, it is fundamentally so simple and so natural that it can never be complicated, corrupted or stained, so pure that it is beyond even the concept of purity and impurity.. as it is said: it is simply your flawless, present awareness, cognizant and empty, naked and awake.” 

—Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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