It may be said that there is the principle of Suchness, and it can permeate into ignorance.
Though the force of this permeation, [Suchness] causes the deluded mind to loathe the suffering of samsara and to aspire to nirvana.
Because this mind, though still deluded, is [now] possessed with loathing and aspiration, it permeates into Sucness [in that it induces Suchness to manifest itself].
Thus a man comes to believe in his essential nature, to know that what exists is the erroneous activity of the mind and that the world of objects in front of him is nonexistent, and to practice teachings to free himself [from the erroneously conceived world of objects].
He knows what is really so -
From "The Awakening of Faith", attributed to Asvaghosha, translated with commentary by Yoshito S. Hakeda (p. 58, 1967, Columbia University Press)
Note - the breaks in the above quoted text do not reflect the original presentation. They have been added in hopes that they assist the reader in following the progression and logic of the quoted text. Any and all distortion of the original meaning is the fault of the transcriber.
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