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If we look honestly at our lives, there's many moments of discontent.

We're in some way we're wanting something we don't have.

Maybe it's to feel more health or have more companionship.

We're wanting something different about ourselves, we're wanting the world to be different.

In Buddhism, the energy of wanting, it's one of the most core energies of our life, and if we're not mindful, it hooks us.

We have a few moments of true contentment, where we're feeling truly at home in the moment, at home

in life just as it is, if we're not aware of the force of wanting. Zen poet real kind puts it this way. He says if you want to find

the meaning, stop chasing after so many things.

So this two week series that we're going to be offering, it's on desire and addiction, and it's an

opportunity for you to examine more closely how wanting plays out in your life,

the way it might imprison you and how with attention it can become a force towards love and freedom.

So I hope you find this of value.

I'll begin with the email that I received just a few days ago mom was describing the busyness of getting her

four-year-old daughter into a car and about to she's buckling her in her in her car

seat and notices that her nails are a bit long.

So she starts explaining to her daughter how

when they get home at nighttime,

they're going to have to clip her nails

and also going to have to do some other things,

take a bath,

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