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

MANAS IS THE BASIS for determining whether the other six manifesting consciousnesses—the sense consciousnesses of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind—are wholesome or unwholesome.

ourselves. In the flower we can see the sun, the compost, and the earth. One thing brings with it all other things. One thing is all things. When we practice looking like this, we will not complain about manas and how it is always causing us to suffer.

Store consciousness has the power to maintain, nourish, and bring forth what we expect to have. In the practice of meditation, we trust our store consciousness. We plant seeds in the soil of our store consciousness, and we water those seeds. We trust that one day the seeds will sprout and bring forth plants, flowers, and fruit.

Our habit energies, delusions, and craving come together and create a tremendous source of energy that conditions our actions, speech, and thinking. This energy is called manas. The function of manas is grasping.

Manas arises from store consciousness, and takes a part of store consciousness to be the object of its love, the object of itself, and it holds onto it firmly.

When manas opens itself and becomes more accepting, these six consciousnesses also enjoy openness and acceptance. That is why manas is called “the ground of wholesome and unwholesome.”

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