Addictions, the State of the Egotism, the Self

All of us are addicted to psychological states that produce suffering. But unfortunately, we don't like to see this in urselves. It's not a pleasant truth to understand that we produce our own suffering and that we also make other people suffer too. An attic knows that that adiction is wrong, but continues to feed that desire. And because desire never equates with reality, that person continues to suffer. The reality of engaging in that desire is to feel more and more pain or suffering. That is the state of the ego, egotism the self, which we explore in our studies of meditation and seek to comprehend.