Clearing Away The Dark Ignorance of Mind

Pure consciousness is the empty essence of mind. It’s what we are. From birth, consciousness attaches itself to the ideas we’ve picked up ideas from our environment. These thoughts cloud the mind, and consciousness lives in darkness, ignoring what we originally are.

This is why we suffer; we live in others’ ideas.
We can’t be original, because we’ve forgotten what we originally are.

And so we become experts in making up stories – or rather, in believing stories which others have made up for us. Once we’re attached, we’re locked in. We’re no longer in the here and now, but in a projection in the mind that we protect.

To clear the mind of others’ garbage, we return to our original state, the real McCoy*. This is done through meditation – short moments many times, to keep it fresh.

*The real McCoy is an idiom meaning ‘the real thing’ or ‘the genuine article’, not a cheap knockoff. 🙂

(The origin: the phrase originated with Elijah McCoy, a prolific 19th-century African-American inventor. He created an automatic lubricator for steam engines. Because his system worked much better than the cheap copies, engineers would demand ‘the real McCoy’. )