Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us (2018-05-09)

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us (2018-05-09) - Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great domains of clinging is compulsive overeating. For most of us the causes and conditions for compulsive overeating existed before we were born, during our early childhood, and in our surrounding society. We begin to release shame and self-aversion by realizing we are not alone in this suffering; and eating addiction is not “our fault.” The talk includes an exploration of how, through RAIN, we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to compulsive eating, giving us more choice in our behavior. Ultimately we discover that this deep prison of suffering can become a portal to realizing the freedom our true nature.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.8	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
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0:15.3	Namaste and welcome.
0:28.3	There's a teaching story about two goldfish and they're swimming in the open seas and
0:35.0	one says to the other, what is it that your heart really longs for?
0:40.4	And the other just thinks a little and says, well, you know, the fish bowl, the colored
0:48.0	gravel, the plastic plants, the little castle, endless supply of powdered fish food.
0:56.9	That's the response.
0:59.0	Instead of, you know, celebrating our love or this great ocean of awareness, it's, you
1:03.5	know, the fish bowl.
1:05.9	And so it is when our attention is narrowed and we forget what really matters and we
1:16.8	get fixated on what we might call substitutes.
1:21.0	And we're going to be exploring that and you might sense quickly, you probably know what
1:25.7	I mean by substitutes when our attention goes for what we think will bring pleasure or
1:32.5	relieve pain.
1:34.7	The common ones are if we can only have that person approve of me or if I can only check
1:39.2	this off the list or achieve that or get more stuff done, you know, money sometimes,
1:45.4	sex sometimes, drugs, food, possessions, the substitutes of cyber, you know, just if I
1:52.6	could just, you know, get online and, you know, whatever video gaming.
1:59.0	When I wrote true refuge, I called these false refuges not because there's anything bad
2:04.5	intrinsically, it just, they are not true.
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