A typical lazy practitioner doesn’t want to study Zen Buddhism or learn about what Buddhism is really about. They like their Zen dumbed down to “just sit” or really dumbed down to something like this:
Being a Buddha is just our everyday mind which is always pure. This is all that people have to realize to be a Buddha.
The “everyday mind” of which this guy speaks is often translated as “ordinary mind” (平常心) which should really be translated as “natural mind” or “original mind” but certainly not “everyday mind”! We can get a general idea of what this mind is from the Pali Nikayas.
“For the bhavaṅga-citta is a simple mind [pakatimano] that is uncorrupted but, just as clear water tainted by impinging blue colour, etc. is thus categorized as blue water, etc., and not new water, nor the former same clear water, even so is that mind corrupted by impinging faults beginning with covetousness, and not a new mind, nor indeed the former same bhavaṅga-citta. Thus the Blessed One said, "radiant, monks, is this mind; yet it is defiled by impinging defilements” (A. i. 49).
According to Rupert Gethin the,
“bhavaṅga is the state in which the mind is said to rest when no active consciousness process is occurring: thus bhavaṅga is one’s state of mind when nothing appears to be going on, such as when one is in a state of deep dreamless sleep, and also momentarily between each active consciousness process.”
This is also the mind that is revealed when the incessant stream of our thoughts is suddenly stopped. What is revealed is the pure Mind which is also the bhavaṅga-citta that is uncorrupted,” which is also luminous.
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