Essentially Luminous, but veiled by defilement is Mind:
 

The exalted Buddha once said:
 

Friends, I know of no other single thing, so quickly changing as this swift mind, insofar as it is not easy to find just one other phenomena changing equally fast. Shining bright, friends, is this mind, yet it is obstructed by external defilements.

Luminous absolutely, is that pure mind, when it is safely released and freed from these alien impurities. Naturally Radiant is this mind, though it is soiled by these accumulated foreign obscurations.

This, the ordinary unlearned persons cannot understand as it really is! I tell you, that is why uneducated ordinary persons neither meditate nor develop mentally. Luminous is that mind, friends, when it is purified & released from these fermented pollutions.

This does the learned Noble Disciple fully understand as it really is. I tell you, that is why that educated Noble Disciple develops & improve mentally by training meditation...
 

Source: The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: Ańguttara Nikāya I 8-11:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.8-10.htm

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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Mentality.htm
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Immersing_the_Body_in_the_Mind.htm

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