"Ananda and all of you should know that living beings, since the time without beginning, have been subject continuously to birth and death because they do not know the permanent True Mind whose substance is, by nature, Pure and bright." — Śūraṅgama Sūtra

This true Mind 真心 is not our ordinary mind which is filled with thoughts, emotions and an inner dialogue and may even suffering from a kind of funk or a depression. Connecting with this Mind goes far deeper and demands more from us. To realize it we must employ dhyāna (a special kind of meditation) hopefully to transcend all mentation, suddenly. With the transcendence of mentation what we arrive at is true Mind which is a luminous vitality that has never been born nor can it ever die.