“If we only identify with the coarse energy of substance, we will have fear and misunderstanding. We will believe that death is true because we have no faith in our deathless nature, which is actual Buddha. Mind cannot be awakened by the influence of ordinary phenomena, which only strengthen our useless, old samsaric habits…By practicing we can increase the wisdom qualities of our natural mind until our karmic cataracts are removed, and with our limitless wisdom eyes, we can see the infinite display of wisdom appearance.” 

—Thinley Norbu, White Sail