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Ep. 35 - The Eightfold Path: Right Thought and Renunciation

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Are You Too Attached to Subtlety?

In our practice, in one way or another, do we try to recreate some enjoyable experience we've had? We get hooked on them. But then we grasp at them, feel the lack when they change as they inevitably do, and reach for them again. So this just becomes a cycle. Or we look for another source of momentary pleasure. And then another until we're totally immersed in the wanting mind,. The grasping states of mind.We become quite firmly enmeshed in the force field of our own desires. It's possible though to relate to desire and to sense desire in an altogether different way - with much greater freedom.

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