How to Reverse the Scattered Habitual Tendencies of Manas

The scattering of consciousness, including the emergence of solitary consciousness, arises from the agitation of the mental faculty (manas). If the mental faculty is not scattered, consciousness cannot scatter at all. If the mental faculty does not dwell on past people or events, consciousness cannot recall previous people or events. How then can one subdue the mental faculty's scattered clinging and grasping? Consciousness must first attain awakening and understand the principles. It must then examine the habitual tendencies of clinging within the mental faculty, identifying what dharmas it tends to grasp. Analyze the impermanent nature of the arising, cessation, and change of these dharmas, making the mental faculty realize the futility of deluded thoughts and how harmful constant grasping is. Then, consistently guide the mental faculty to focus on a single dharma, thereby transforming its scattered habits. Gradually, the mental faculty will cease its grasping, deluded thoughts will diminish, and the mind will become stabilized.