The Heart Sutra Lecture 4 :The Five Skandhas

This is Lecture 4 of Heart Sutra from Venerable Guan Cheng from Canada. I find his explanation on the Heart Sutra really good. He asked when is the best season for your mind? It is when there is no obstacles in your mind. What are obstacles? They are mental afflictions like jealousy, greediness, anger, worries and etc. People have to learn how to have no obstacles in their mind. You have to first identify the obstacles, your problems and find methods to resolve it. 

The Heart sutra helps me greatly. For example, most of the problems come from the five skandhas namely form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. For example, there are some people with not so good intentions and will just say unpleasant things. So if I know this person is not so nice, I just treat what they say as 'sound', nothingness with no meaning attached to it and not pay any attention to what that person said and redirect my attention elsewhere like reading. Do not attach to what is said and just let go. Watch the following Heart Sutra Lecture 4 video on the five skandhas. Some people got too attached to what they saw and felt and got addicted to certain websites which create more suffering for them and their families. So be mindful and observe.

There are a total of 28 lecture videos for the Heart Sutra. Basically Buddha taught people to eliminate suffering by becoming conscious of the five skandhas and how it affect you. 

 Experiential thinking has to be introspective. Getting inside your mind to see it. You have to know how you see things, then you looking at the process of seeing things, perception.