[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Hindrances of Mindfulness
Buddhism's teaching is that it starts with the problem. Am, so there are these five states, the cold hindrances. Not because they're bad to feel, but because when we get lost in them, they tend to give us tunnel vision and cut off our options. It's like the futility ofi st hope or faith, when you think, if i can only push against this enough, it's going to go away. With anger, if i canonly hold on tightly enough to this, it will never change, with grasping. Theyre kind of almost adaptive states gone awry,. That they're not bad, but, well, they're kind of
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