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387 of the podcast

with Geelong Tubton, Buddhist monk,

Meditation Teacher,

and author of a handbook for hard times, a monk's guide to fearless living.

In this clip, he explains that when we distract ourselves with low-grade addictions, we're pushing away emotional pain or discomfort, but if we can

learn instead to sit with what's making us uncomfortable, those emotions will start to transform.

If I look across society, what I see are a lot of people with low-grade addictions, things like alcohol, social media, pornography,

online shopping, and it seems to me that the root cause of a lot of these addictions is distraction.

You make the case that distraction or the pushing away of our feelings of pain of discomfort is actually the cause of many of our problems.

Do you agree that we are a society that seems to be addicted to distraction?

And if you do, what's the underlying cause?

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