Desire and Addiction: Voices of Longing Calling You Home (2020-03-04)
Tara Brach
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Are You Fixated on Substitutes?
When our basic needs are unmet, you can't be born into this culture and not have your needs in some way violated. Instead of the urge to realize our Buddha nature, we're just fixated on the chocolate Buddha. The sign of desire that's fixating is what sometimes we call if only mind. We do it to all sorts of things: If only I get that promotion, then it'll be okay. And if only our idea of what's going to give us happiness.
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