Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts (2017-03-22)
Tara Brach
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The Reward System in Fruit Flies
When we have unmet needs, we're rigged to try to satisfy them some other way. And it's this contracting of desire and fixating that causes suffering. Wei want love, but we'll go for soothing ourselves with just an example. It's part of the way our system is wired. If there's any hungry ghost stuff going on, it's because something in us thinks, like maybe i thought back in college, well, if only i that extra bowl of ice creamlIf only i lost that ten pounds, if only the sky really was willing to be more intimate.
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