#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  The ego is the source of all these attachments. Worldly people say, "So I have a self. I have an ego." So what we're saying because you have that ego, you're suffering. And if it doesn't bother you, live your life. Suffer. The ego is the main source of all the suffering is in the world. Think about it. All the bad things that people do is because they're driven by their egos. You the one, your ego is the one that makes yourself unhappy. You cannot run away from that. You can move to another place to the Bahamas, retiring. All you're doing is bring your ego to the Bahamas and it start over again in the Bahamas. They adapt. The ego adapts constantly. So that's why uh if you keep on worshiping this ego, indulging your egos, you will never know happiness ultimately. And so the Buddhists know that. So they said we want to at least have a chance to radiant the ego first, see if it works, and then eventually kill it. And those who are able to destroy the ego, then no true happiness. Until then, there's no happiness in the