' True Nature '...

"From the unknown past,

being conditioned by their own deeds

and deluded by two fundamental misconceptions,

people have wandered about in ignorance.

First,

they believed that the discriminating mind,

which lies at the root of this life of birth and death,

was their real nature;

and, second,

they did not know that,

hidden behind the discriminating mind,

they possessed a pure mind of Enlightenment

which is their true nature."



– THE TEACHING OF BUDDHA
BUKKYO DENDO KYOKAI 1994