What does it mean to have a “true nature?
This framing of the spiritual path as a journey to our true nature comes from the Buddhist tradition. According to this tradition, everyone has a Buddha nature or a true nature.
The distinction being made here is that enlightenment, spiritual realization, or awakening isn’t something that gets created. It’s not something generated or produced through any kind of activity. The spiritual path—or the path of awakening—is a path of uncovering an “essence” that’s already there, that has been there since the beginning of time, since before anything was created. It is the uncreated, the unborn.
This is an important notion to contemplate and understand as we embark on, or progress along, the spiritual path. Often, due to the way we’re wired, we think we’re trying to go somewhere we’re not now. We think:I am unenlightened. I’m identified with my ego and have only glimpses of some other possibility. Clearly, that’s not where I am; that’s where I could get.So, we’re trying to go somewhere in consciousness. We’re trying to find some place we perceive as outside ourselves and bring it into us.
Simply considering that you have a true nature that’s already enlightened—that doesn’t need to be generated or found somewhere else, and that there’s really nothing you could do to get there—is, in itself, an enlightening practice.
Take time as you walk the path to contemplate that all your spiritual efforts are simply clearing away the obstructions to who you already are. Every enlightened quality you aspire to manifest in this world is already fully a part of you. It is your own original, essential nature.
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Craig Hamilton is a spiritual trailblazer whose innovative approach to transformation is bringing enlightenment down to earth and unlocking the codes to our highest human potential.
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