The One Noble Truth or One Refuge, which is the unconditioned truth of the Tathāgatagarbha, is attained by the intrinsically pure mind, which is itself the Tathāgatagarbha. The defiled mind, which is tied to the phenomenal, is unable to bridge the gap between the absolute and the phenomenal whereas the Tathāgatagarbha as the absolute, intrinsically pure mind is paradoxically able to co—exist in the phenomenal world remaining uncontaminated by it because the mind no longer discriminates between inferior and superior, conditioned and unconditioned.