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When the mind does know of the luminous mind, it only knows sensuality as the only possible refuge.

But when the mind experiences the luminous mind as existing, the mind tastes the flavour of liberation & true happiness.

In doing so, the mind loses its taste for other flavours.

This I see is an important point.

True dear Element...

For us, luminous mind, buddha nature, buddha mind... are the same thing... a mind with out defilements, the basic condition for Right View and it can be "uncoverd" by meditation, awareness and practice of the four noble truths and the eightfold noble path...