心如透明镜，
目中见化影，
不实回镜看，
景非透明心。
我这句话想说的是，
我们的心就像一面镜子，在年幼的时候，我们的心是如一般的自在和透明，但我们只是见到自然的化影与其虚幻的世界。在成长的过程中我们就会越来越少在回去看我们这幅镜子，这镜子已经有了很浓的灰尘，反复再看，已经不能显出我们的透明之心。
人生百态就是如此，大家都对仁义道德不是一个陌生的东西，哪有多少人又明了这仁义和道德的形态呢？不时常对自己的镜子下工夫擦明它，那我们就没有真真能看到自己的真面目。修得果报，就看我们能否把，我们的真性拥有不好的黑点给擦除掉，让我们用敏锐的双眼看这世界。
Yes, and hence we must constantly watch our mind, maintain an
ever present awareness that constantly lets go of our attachment to
our sentient thoughts and years of conditioning... so that the
mirror bright clarity reveals itself in its purity.
Fortunately we do not need hundreds of years or thousands of
years of purification to eliminate thousands of years of
conditioning.. personal or collective.
Our Buddha-nature is already ever-present. We just need to
practice sustaining awareness that knows every single arising
thought and everything we see and hear and yet unattached to any
thoughts or sights or smell... arise and pass by itself and leaves
no trace. Like a mirror that reflects everything but is
unconditioned by any reflections... the reflections appear and
disappear spontaneously and leaves no trace.
The reflections, the thoughts, sights and smells are not the
problem... they are not real, and they are not a problem... the
only "problem" is that we think they are really existing and so we
become very attached and affected by it. But if we maintain the
mirror-like awareness we see that everything is merely a
manifestation of our primordial state, empty and luminous. It is
empty of "objectivity" or "inherent existence" which we mistaken
them to be (truly existing) due to our dualistic way of perceiving
"things" -- in terms of a separate "Self" and the "existing world".
They are actually just mirror reflections, merely appearances that
is the play of emptiness-clarity. Like the moon in the water,
flower in the mirror. The mirror by itself is empty but capable of
reflecting everything. So we let go of all our thought conditioning
and just meet everything attaching or forming unnecessary thinking,
but seeing everything as it is with awareness, AS awareness.
The "letting go" part is very important... it is to drop
everything... our conditionings, our thoughts, even our mind and
body... completely drop off. Drop off the "self" and what remains
is pure awareness as it is. Then whatever arise without the "self"
is the function of pure awareness, the function of prajna.
