Suffering takes place when mind (citta) blindly craves phenomena; mind already being coordinate with the phenomenal body beginning at birth from previous craving. Suffering is perpetuated because the already appropriated phenomena creates a thirst or a dryness in us that cannot be quenched by our efforts.
It stands to reason, therefore, that the more we crave ‘things’ (i.e., phenomena) the more our thirst increases. This has the secondary effect of blinding the mind creating intoxicating and alluring perturbations leading always to painfulness in some measure.
By contrast, when our mind is able to connect and resonate with pure Mind in some degree, it becomes apparent to us that another state of mind can exist. In this state, the more we resonate with pure Mind the more energized with bliss our corporeal body becomes. As a consequence, the less it craves things, being content to drink from the cool spring of absolute Mind, so to speak.
Thirst and dryness end—and this is so because mind has found itself. It no longer has any need to cling to its phenomena as if they were mind, itself. Mind, also, is no longer in a state of nescience (avidya). It has become awakened (buddha), cooled, and complete (vidya), entering nirvana.
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