Understanding Our Mind: 51 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

Seeds are produced and strengthened by formations. Formations are manifestations of seeds.

It is always present as a kind of instinct that takes its object as itself.

because manas is blind, because its nature is obscured by delusion, it can often take us in the wrong direction.

Another way to describe nirvana is interbeing.

manas hinders the functioning of the store consciousness and gets in the way of transforming the seeds.

Our mind is enslaved when it is picked up and embraced as a “self” by manas.

In order to transform manas, we need to look deeply at the elements of ignorance and craving that cause it to act in this way.

Our practice is to transform the nature of manas a little bit each day and release our store consciousness more and more from its grip.

The planting of these seeds, the formation of these knots, takes place when mindfulness and insight are not there.