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Ep. 35 - The Eightfold Path: Right Thought and Renunciation

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Getting Addicted to Wanting

We become addicted not only to the gratification of our wants, whatever they may be, but also to the mental habit of wanting itself. As you well know, yogis can get addicted to different meditative states. Some people of mind are inclined that way and just locked into that. One of the best interviews I had with Saita Upandita in Burma fixed my mind in clings that way,. It's just interested in how things are happening.

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