Mind an nirvana
One can review in to The Awakening of Faith (Hakedas translation), that by a way is a very critical dissertation for Mahayana Buddhists, that a nonarising of a deluded mind, in that a marks of a deluded thoughts have been nullified, constitutes obscurity (cp. 61). By implication, a fulfilment of pristine Mind, that is, Mind minus a self-generated fluctuations that all a time bewitch it, is nirvana. Stated otherwise, pristine Mind, Suchness, as well as obscurity have been fungible.
In advancing from samsara to nirvana, that is entering a realm of Suchness as well as pristine Mind, it has to be understood that Mind, fundamentally, is utterly devoid of any form or mark. From a viewpoint of feeling consciousness, Mind is utterly indeterminate. If our feeling alertness resembles something like a fishing net perplexing to catch Mind, it will be incompetent to capture it since Mind is space-like as well as empty. Incidentally, this strongly suggests that Mind has to be realized upon a own termsnot a seekers. Again, whatever we might suppose Mind to be, it isnt. By imagining we have been perplexing to figure Mind in to something for determinate suspicion (samj). Truly, Mind is over what it is suspicion to be.
Speculating about obscurity without assembly pristine Mind face to face, is almost like being upon a fools errand. Moreover, it usually increases a worry of bargain what a Buddha essentially meant by nirvana.
Hirakawa & Groner give a rather good outline of obscurity as it relates to thoughts that really describes thoughts becoming Mind, that is, Mind that is free, insofar, as it has come to realize itself as a absolute, there being no higher.
The Third Noble Truth, a extinction of pang (duhkhanirodhryasatya), concerns a eradication of thirst. This state is called "nirvana" (P. nibbna). Because a thoughts is freed from all a fetters of thirst, obscurity is also called emancipation (vimukti, vimoksa, moksa). A person is initial partially freed by wisdom, a stage calle! d emanci pation by bargain (praj-vimukti). Next, all a defilements have been eradicated as well as a complete thoughts is freed, a stage called "emancipation of mind" (ceto-vimukti). In this state a thoughts operates in complete freedom, unblushing by thirst. Because true tranquillity (sukha) is experienced, nirvana, is infrequently said to be a tranquillity of extinction. Because a term "nirvana" may be translated as "extinction," a little people have deliberate obscurity to be a nihilistic state. However, usually lust is extinguished, not a thoughts itself. (Hirakawa & Groner, A History of Indian Buddhism, pp. 40-41).
