The Greatest Addiction

There isn't that much to understand in this teaching. There's a little bit to understand about how the ego works, but even that is just mainly self observation. The thing about it is presence presence. And presence is a space of no thought. But presence can also be there in the background, even when thinking is happening. You can still be not completely involved in the thinking. Thinking loses the ability to create havoc in your life and confuse you. So your choice then is not to understand more, or to bring some intellectual analysis to the practice, but to practise the state of not thinking - which can be arrived at by various ways as you probably know.