#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-glimpses  The five kandas are the technical terms the Buddhist jargon for describing to you the nature your ego the five aspects of your ego. If you have an ego how does it manifest? Manifest as a form. You attached to form. We like forms. Look at the shapes of cars that you like. Okay. So we very attached to forms. And that's why architects that's how architects make a living creating forms structures with beautiful forms art and so forth. So because they appeal to our ego the pleasing to us. Okay. So that's why in the morning we take care our hair to make ourselves more pleasing to others. That's the manifestation of the ego right there. Egos are very attached to forms. Number two, how else can your ego does the ego manifest? The ego manifests itself as feelings. We're seeking what for most of us pleasant feelings. Some of us unpleasant feelings. Oo, hurt me. But the point being that you can joke all you want but the point number two nature of your ego is that we seeking most of us seek pleasant feelings. How? Oh nice. I like Narcissus. Narcissisa I mean Nasissa. Okay. Nasisa would look into the her reflection in the mirror and say, "Oh, what a beautiful creature." Okay, it's not so you you the form seeking here. Okay, you're seeking a you know nice looking form also looking into that form creates this pleasant feeling the wells of inside. That's the nature of the ego. Number three, how does the ego manifest itself? Thinking. We like to think. You you pay universities to teach you how to think. So what happened is that you know I like rode you know like rod. You walk into that legion legion of honor. You go into that thing there and you see the statue this guy humongous thing twice as big as Shaquille O'Neal. You don't you don't do basketball you anyway. So you sit there and say and the whole world is enamored with it. But we Buddhist walk by say okay because it's called the thinker. The thinker meaning what people admire the fact he's thinking but Rod is confused. Actually he should have named it. She changed the title to I would call it Mr. Depression. He's so look his face is you know muscular his old muscles facing and frowns and he's so unhappy. It's not thinking it's unhappiness. It's depression. The third way that your ego manifests is it likes to think, dissecting things, analyzing thing, projecting thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking and that's how your ego functions. Ka number four activities meaning that things that you the mental activities that there's not it's a bit lower level than thinking okay for example your autonomous system your digestion your breathing okay is is based on very lowle mental activities Okay. Number five is consciousness. Consciousness is the awareness. Consciousness is the is even a low level the activity but still part of your awareness of of your of your thinking activity. Thinking is is the the coarsest form. Then activity is lower and then conscious is the lower form of of of thinking. But we call the consciousness because it's requires it's slightly different from thinking. Oto.