Washing the mud off the mind.

 We need to wash from our mind the mud that covers our pure empty essence. Our pure empty essence is enlightened. However, this pure empty essence is occupied by the muddy confusion of concepts, and so it does not recognise itself.

You are enlightened.
You are not powerless.
You have unfortunately accepted a mistaken view,
because others have.
You have become a muddy copy.
You have covered yourself in mud, thinking that it is delicious chocolate…
it’s actually stinking mud!

 Once we get the message, “Our pure essence is enlightened already!” we will want to get clean, and not attract more mud. Every instance of acting out negative emotions adds more layers of mud. Every instance of recognition dissolves the mud.

 Be very careful of following others into the mud…

“Mud, mud, glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So follow me, follow,
down to the hollow,
and there we can wallow
in glorious mud!”

The Hippopotamus Song
by Flanders and Swan