Special Topic: Working with Desire, Attachment and Addictions

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Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. These resources explore how to relax open the grip of wanting and heal the suffering of addiction. You will learn how to bring mindfulness and compassion to the roots of desire, and be carried home to open loving presence.

For us addicts, recovery is more than just taking a pill or maybe getting a shot. Recovery is also about the spirit, about dealing with that hole in the soul.
~ William Moyers

Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment (10:48 min.)

In this short reflection, we explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming...

Desire: A Current of Homecoming

Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores...

Spiritual Reparenting

~ When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other...

Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us

Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great domains of clinging is compulsive...

Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts

CC ~ This talk examines the suffering that arises when due to unmet needs for love and safety, our...

Realizing Your Deepest Desires

This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest...

Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachments and Addictions

In Buddhist cosmology the torment of intense desire that can never really be satisfied is depicted as the realm...

Letting Go – The Freedom of Awake Awareness

We know we need to let go of harmful habits like obsessive worry, blame and over consuming to experience...

Desire: A Current of Homecoming

Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores...

Blog: The Suffering of Rejecting Desire

“We have been raised to fear…our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps...

Blog: Radical Acceptance of Desire

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out-of-hand. This...