The Ego and Addiction

i know from my own experience with chasing the pleasures of the world, as youe rightly saidit's really a kind of mask the the pain that's there. And i do feel that there's so much addiction on the planet because we we don't want to feel what's bubbling away beneath the surface. We're always going forwards, but never really again anywhere. So i also remember,  an early experience i had open my eyes to to how distracted we are, and how distracted i was. This kind of was the catalist for that.