There must be a line of passage from the mundane and profane to the transcendental state, from delusion and distortion and distraction toward conscious clarity. Conscious clarity is already present, but it is overlaid with layers of superimposing dichotomous thinking and perceptions naturally latent in subconscious layers of the mind. This needs to be recognized and is usually a slow process. It’s a matter of how well a practitioner learns to guard his/her attention. Things are made profane and mundane only by the distorting influence of inattentiveness. The profane and the mundane are actually perfect just as-they-are, but an aberrated discriminative perceptual function makes things sometimes seem other than they really-are. We have to take extra care in changing our usual perception into a clear-seeing apperception. The difference between samsara and nirvana is only conceptual and exists as a difference only because of obscuration of understanding. Everything is always already free from the pollution of superimposing conceptual discrimination, and this is known when apperception is present.
