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@@ -39378,3 +39378,24 @@ drawn into the afflictive emotions of desire and hatred as well as all the
 problems these bring.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight", Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+  The essence of mind is somewhat difficult to explain, so we look at it from
+the negative point of view, that is, what mind is not.  First of all, we see
+that it is not something which arises or ceases or abides.  It is free of
+these three things.  From beginningless time, there is no arising, no
+cessation and no abiding in terms of staying in one place, not moving, or not
+changing.  It is completely free of all three of these.
+  It is also free of being a thing or a substance composed of particles.  The
+essential entity, or substance, of mind is not something that can be defiled
+or stained by grasping at subject and object.  It is completely free of the
+stains from those activities.
+  Further, when we look at the essential substance of mind, we find that no
+matter how much we search for it, no matter how much we analyze it, there is
+no thing there to be found.  There is no entity that we can come up with by
+searching, evaluating, and analyzing.  No matter how much we seek for its
+essential substance, we cannot find it.  The searcher, the one who does the
+search for essential substance of mind, cannot find it.  Therefore it is said
+that the essential substance of mind itself is emptiness.
+  -- Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, "The Practice of Mahamudra", published
+     by Shambhala Publications
+