Practicing the path toward Enlightment is to set oneself free from the Mind. The Mind is like dreaming, and thus, one should practice the path awoken from delusions of Mind. The awoken practice freed from delusions is ‘the Diamond Samadhi and the Diamond Prajna(Wisdom).’ Such practice is expressed as “Siddhartha’s receiving the surrender of Mara under the bodhi tree,” which is represented by the brightness of a clear and fine weather attained by seating oneself under a tree and contemplating one’s mind and finally realizing that the intrinsic, root origin of one’s mind is crystal clear, completely clean and perfectly pure.
That is the right way of contemplation. However, if one does not contemplate one’s mind in the right way, one reaches the eighth consciousness Alaya and stays in the state of ‘no-more-progress,’ which means no more breakthrough beyond the Alaya consciousness. The practice of Mind-contemplating confined within the Alaya consciousness leads to nothing but a ‘Vipassana mindfulness at present.’
Only contemplating in the right way sets oneself free from the fetters of Mind, resulting in the Prime Enlightment. Nonetheless, in the Theravada buddhism, the practice is confined within the study of the Mind without setting onself free from the Mind. The practice of studying only the Mind leads to an exercise of learning the ‘One Mind’ without knowing that the Mind is in itself from the beginning the Nirvana. The One Mind causes a gospel. The gospel, generating the sounds of blessings, is nothing but a thinking or reasoning process of the Mind.