What Is Seeing One's True Mind and One's Nature

Seeing one's true mind and perceiving one's nature means understanding the mind of tathāgatagarbha, realizing the intrinsically pure mind of tathāgatagarbha's self-nature, and seeing the nature of tathāgatagarbha—that is, seeing the Buddha-nature. This is the deluded mind seeing the true mind. Because the deluded mind has always had ignorance, not knowing what the true reality of the dharmadhātu is, it takes the world of the five aggregates as real, as self and what belongs to self, and thus there arises the grasping of self and the grasping of dharmas. Only after realizing tathāgatagarbha, the true reality of the dharmadhātu, does one come to know that all dharmas are manifested and revealed by tathāgatagarbha and are not real; one will then gradually eliminate the grasping of self and the grasping of dharmas, thereby completely severing beginningless ignorance (avidyā) and the dust-like ignorance (ignorance as numerous as dust), and attaining the wisdom of all aspects (sarvākārajñatā).