<Treasures and dust in the storeroom.>           Our sub-conscious mind can be compared to the basement storeroom. It is the basement of our "self," where the treasures and accumulated dust of our heredity, and the root causes of our attitudes, inclinations, and tensions (our "complexes") exist. All of our altruistic actions from the past (which can support and influence our positive actions in the present) can be considered as our treasures. Accumulated dust, on the other hand, is the collection of past self-centered actions which supports and influences the way ego's self-centered nature functions. If too much of this dust accumulates and is not cleaned up, it strengthens the momentum of ego's self-centered force. Like the basement of the house, our internal storeroom needs to be thoroughly cleaned in order to make our good intentions and efforts toward self-improvement effective and complete.