waiting

if we’re waiting for enlightenment to dawn inside our mind, we’ll be waiting forever.

the mind will always be the mind, and enlightenment will always be our true nature. these truths are true simultaneously.

we think we can only perceive through the mind, so we’ve focused our attention on all the data coming through it, as if thanks to that mountain of information we’ll be able to piece enlightenment together.

what we’re looking for is paradoxically the very attention we're focusing upon the mind in order to find what we're looking for.

we ignore it first of all because we assume it's something we don't have yet and second because it's so very obvious and basic, and "buddha nature" is often depicted as something incredible and spectacular.