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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 9: Detach in Four Steps
Description: This episode offers a method to free ourselves from attachment that is causing pain and problems in our life. Attachment is a state of mind that arises from paying inappropriate attention to a desirable object until the mind becomes unpeaceful and uncontrolled and we feel we can not be happy without that object. Whether it is attachment to someone other than our partner, to drugs or alcohol, or to the past, this episode shows a clear path to becoming free. The verses of the Dhammapada, by Buddha, we study in this episode are from Chapter Two "Vigilance", ve...