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The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachments and Addictions (2015-07-29)

Tara Brach

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The Hungry Ghost Energy

Buddhist teachings are not that desire is bad. In fact, desire goes hand in hand with existing. You wouldn't be here if it weren't for desire, really. And filling desire can be temporarily pleasant and not having it feel can be temporarily unpleasant. It's being caught that's the suffering. We're going to look in our lives where we have a sense of I have to have this to be happy. If life doesn't cooperate in this way, it's really not okay.

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