Ep. 164 – Dependent Origination
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Chain of Conditioning
When we are not mindful, when we are not attentive and aware, then the feeling conditions desire. Craving is a hungering or a thirsting for pleasant experience. We hunger after these pleasant feelings. The problem with this factor of craving, of hungering, of thirsting, is that it is incapable of being satiated. Precisely because the feelings are always changing. Somewhat comparable to our experience of hunger for food. For hungry, we eat, we feel full, and a few hours later we're hungry again. But at this place in this law of conditioning, conditionality, there's a possibility for breaking the chain of conditioning.
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