Encouraging words...

Although we all seem to think that the realization of the mind's nature is very difficult and hard to understand, why should it be? It is not the case at all that it is something far away from us, for which we need to search avidly. If anything, it is too close to us, because it is right here, right in our midst. And second, it is not because it is too subtle or too profound or too difficult to understand that we do not realize it. We do not see it because it is too easy, too simple and too obvious. It is not the case that there is anything we need to do to this mind's nature in order to realize it. Even if we were to accept that the mind's nature is within us and is right here all the time, if we think we have to somehow alter it or improve it or get it into fit shape in order to be able to see it directly, then of course that could be difficult. We do not have to change anything bad into anything good; we do not have to get rid of anything that exists, or create anything that does not exist. If you simply see your mind as it is, just as it is right now, that in itself will generate great meditation. This is therefore both easy and profound.

from Pointing Out the Dharmakaya, by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche