Then, Senior Śāradvatī­putra asked the Blessed One as follows: “Venerable Lord! What is the nature of luminosity—the intrinsic nature of mind?”

The Blessed One replied to Senior Śāradvatī­putra as follows: “Śāradvatī­putra, the mind neither has desire, nor is it without desire. It neither has hatred, nor is it without hatred. It neither has delusion, nor is it without delusion. Similarly, it neither has obsessions, fetters, or latent impulses, nor is it without them. Similarly, it neither has all the fetters of philosophical view, nor is it without them. It neither has the mindsets of the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas, nor is it without them. This, Śāradvatī­putra, is the natural luminosity of the mind with which great bodhisattva beings are endowed.”

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Senior Śāradvatī­putra then asked as follows: “Lord! Does this mind that is not the mind exist?”

The Blessed One replied, “Śāradvatī­putra, does this nature of mind with which minds are endowed exist or not exist? Does it have being or non-being? In terms of apprehensibility, is it in fact apprehensible?” [F.78.b]

He replied, “Venerable Lord! That is not the case!”

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[The Lord Buddha] then said, “Śāradvatī­putra, if the nature of mind with which minds are endowed has neither existence nor non-existence, and if it is non-apprehensible, then Śāradvatī­putra, surely your question ‘Does this mind that is not the mind exist?’ is contestable. How can this reasoning be correct?”

Senior Śāradvatī­putra then asked the Blessed One, “Venerable Lord! What is the nature of mind with which minds are endowed?”

He replied, “Śāradvatī­putra! That which is unchanging and without conceptual notions regarding all things is called the nature of mind with which minds are endowed.”


Source : The Transcendent Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines
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