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We are discussing tonight the second part of what's now a three-part series.

I'm working wisely with desire and addiction.

And I start with Buddhism because the Buddhist talk about the middle path, as many of you

know, in approaching desire.

And it's to meet desire without any grasping.

But living it fully, living fully, what our hearts are experiencing with an open heart

and wide open hands.

And I love the cartoon of a Zen dog.

And the caption is Zen dog dreaming of a medium-sized bone.

So this is our opening to exploring some more how we work with desire and addiction.

And in the Buddhist cosmology, one of the universal psychic domains is called the realm of the

hungry ghosts.

And the hungry ghosts are being who are drawn.

They're pictured with these narrow knacks and these large bellies.

And it represents the fact that they're riddled with desire.

But they're unable to satisfy themselves.

And really, this refers to the universal way that we human suffer, that we all experience

to a degree.

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