The Meaning of Seeing One's True Mind and One's Buddha-Nature

Seeing one's true mind and awakening to self-nature means understanding the mind of tathāgatagarbha, realizing the intrinsically pure mind of tathāgatagarbha's self-nature, and seeing the nature of tathāgatagarbha—this is seeing the Buddha-nature. This is the deluded mind seeing the true mind. Because the deluded mind has always had ignorance and does not know the true reality of the dharmadhātu, it takes the world of the five aggregates as real, as self and what belongs to self, and thus there arise the attachment to self and the attachment to 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 attachment to self and the attachment to dharmas, thereby completely severing beginningless ignorance (avidyā) as well as dust-like ignorance (ignorance as numerous as dust), and attaining the wisdom of all aspects (sarvākārajñatā).