A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Buddha-nature is described as our primordial nature, undefiled but not recognized by the ordinary mind. It is “like a golden statue wrapped in filthy rags.” When the obscuring veil is lifted, buddhahood is realized.
"Manifest love, compassion, wisdom, peace and joy – that is in each of us. All you do is just be. Just be your soul. You don’t do anything. You radiate love. Thats it."
Rigpa, the pristine nature of mind, is a state of our consciousness that is more fundamental than any thoughts or emotions we are familiar with, even more fundamental than the unconscious aspects of our mind where all our habits live.