Good Rain Drops Do Not Fall Elsewhere

Outside the window, heavy rain pours down. Is this rain the rain within the mind or the rain outside the mind? Where have the raindrops fallen? When the heavy raindrops beat upon your mind, are they beating upon the tathāgatagarbha, or beating upon something else? Could they beat and break the window of the mind, and if it breaks, what then? Can this rain be altered according to human will? If you say it can, why do so many people suffer from floods? If you say it cannot, why can some people remain untouched by a single raindrop, and even summon wind and rain, or stop the rain and turn it into gentle breezes and bright sunshine?

Who can see the mark of rain yet be free from the mark of rain, without clinging to the mark of rain? Who can see that the mark of rain is itself the mark of the mind, with each thought not abiding in any mark?

Since the rain is within the mind, why does such heavy rain fall in your mind? If you go outside and get drenched in a downpour, will it affect you?

Although what the seven consciousnesses discern are false illusory images, these illusory images appear far too real—form, sound, smell, taste, and touch are all three-dimensional and vividly lifelike. How can one not take them as real? Yet if one wants to attain liberation of body and mind, what should one do?