Eradication of Self-View and Awakening to the Enlightened Mind Are Both Realizations Through the Manas

The realization of the cessation of self-view is the recognition by the mental faculty (manas) that the five aggregates are devoid of self. At the moment of enlightenment through awakening to the mind, the mental faculty not only acknowledges the illusory nature of the five aggregates and that they are not the true self, but simultaneously realizes the Tathagatagarbha (Buddha-nature), understanding that the Tathagatagarbha is the true self, while the mental faculty itself is not real. At this point, the mental faculty finds its master, though afflictions and habitual tendencies still remain, albeit in a diminished form. Upon realizing that the Tathagatagarbha is the true self and that all phenomena arise from it, being merely its functions and manifestations, the mental faculty gradually ceases to appropriate these functions and manifestations of the Tathagatagarbha as its own. Consequently, attachment to the self gradually weakens. Eventually, it will not only eliminate the attachment to self (ātma-grāha) but also the attachment to phenomena (dharma-grāha). With the complete cessation of these two attachments, one achieves perfect Buddhahood.