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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 71 - Letting Go of Attachment
Description: Attachment is defined as a mental affliction, which is a habit that robs causes us suffering. Attachment arises like this: Â We encounter something pleasant + inappropriate attention/exaggerating its good qualities = attachment arises (the feeling we can not be happy without it) Â Sometimes we are attached to people being different than they are, to being right, drugs, alcohol, or unhealthy food. In all these cases, it is not the person or object that makes us unhappy, but our attachment that causes us to suffer. Â What attachment is not:...