If we are able to look through the veil of our our ordinary human mind of mental formations—even if for a single moment—we will naturally yoke with pure Mind which is transparently luminous (prabhasvara) and utterly empty.
With such a profound penetration and insight, we will realize that pure Mind is very real. And for the yogi (bodhisattva) who can engage with pure Mind continually, such a Mind is far from being subjective as ordinary people are wont to believe.
In this regard, the difference between the ordinary person (prithagjana), who may even be a Buddhist monk or nun, and the Bodhisattva, is the latter sees Mind shorn of thoughts and other mental formations which otherwise act to hide the pristine nature of Mind. Unlike the Bodhisattva, the ordinary person has no such ability to see this way; who is stubbornly unwilling to believe that such an intuition is possible or that the substance of their mental formations is incorporeal and transcendent.
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