Evolution of love

Buddha mind

Yet all the while, there is still the basic nature, which is not made out of anything whatsoever. It is totally unconstructed and empty, and at the same time it is aware: it has the quality of being able to cognize. This indivisible unity of being empty and cognizant is our original ground that is never lost.
What we are missing is the recognition that our natural state is the indivisible unity of emptiness and cognizance. We miss that recognition because our mind is always searching somewhere else. We do not acknowledge our actual cognizant presence and instead are always preoccupied with looking elsewhere, outside of ourselves. And we perpetuate this process continuously.

Shantideva said, “Unless you know the secret key point, whatever you do will miss the mark.” The secret key point of mind is that its nature is a self-existing, original wakefulness (knowing awareness).
To identify the key point we need to receive the pointing-out instruction, which tells and shows us that: “The nature of your mind is the Buddha mind itself.”