# (2023-02-01) {Vilas Youtube} How to understand Citta? What is Citta? | on Purification of [[Citta]] Tags:: [[Citta]], [[Kusala]], #purification - https://www.youtube.com/live/D6xkfThs6KQ?feature=share - Great description of [[Citta]], including the 9 stages, and how it can be **purified** - **@@@@** And on how can the **Citta is purified** using [[Kusala]] citta and removing [[Dasa Akusala|Akusala]] citta. - Related to [[MN19 Dvedhāvitakkasutta]] - Vilas described how animals (e.g. mosquito, dogs) will stop harming you once your citta is pure. - I.e. since the akusala doesn't come up (both you and the dog are the same citta anyways) - @@ #eryu/do-not-understand **There is no dog "out there", it's only in the citta**. - #Naveen described how his smoking, drinking habit for 10+ years (and meat eating) is GONE after the Vipassana Retreat (by Goenka), without "me" doing anything. - Vilas: the citta is purified so they no longer arise any longer. (It's indeed "gone")