"What enabled you to be relatively unattached, to release that clinging? Our animal nature. We evolved to crave and suffer in order to survive the serengeti plane," he says. "It's natural to want to hold on to pleasure of different kinds." He goes on: "How do we hold it kind of lightly while as we'll get to pursuing and holding on to the things that really matter?"

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