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Ep. 16 - Worldly and Unworldly Feelings

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Hidden Dangers of Addictions

The more we become attached to these pleasant, worldly feelings, not from any of the pleasant sense contacts that we have, then the more we suffer when they change. The buddha is pointing out a very different kind of happiness, e very differentkind of pleasure. In the unworldly pleasant feelings, there are still pleasant feelingsbut they are not based on sense contact, that based on renunciation. And so unknowingly, we may be strengthening this habit pattern of desire and of wanting.

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