Questions tagged [craving]
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How could craving be the habit of reification?
Below, it says that "craving" is the habit of reifying things, resulting in the notion that we need ever-increasingly more things to live happily.
How could craving (tanha) be the habit of ...
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Difference between desire (chanda) and craving (tanha)?
What's the difference between desire (chanda) and craving (tanha)?
From my understanding, tanha is always unwholesome but chanda can be wholesome or unwholesome. How is this the case?
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Is there such a thing as craving for enlightenment and would it be unwholesome?
I was wondering if for example an obsession or craving that someone has for attaining Nirvana would be considered something unwholesome. On one hand it seems to me like it would, since that person ...
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Food and other cravings, and guarding the senses
How do I deal with food cravings or craving in general? According to the four efforts I should replace craving with the disadvantages. Can loving-kindness also work? I feel like concentrating on ...
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How should I watch sensations in Vipassana meditation?
How should I watch sensations in Vipassana? Should I watch from head to toe and then toe to head? Please explain things step by step as I'm new to Vipassana. Thanks in advance!
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Are Habits a Kind of Attachment?
Some questions have already touched the nature of habits, namely in the sense of good habits or their benefits. This answer explains how attachment occur from a repeated desire to engage in the ...
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What do ethical conduct (sila) and compassion have to do with the cessation of dukkha?
As I understand the Third Noble Truth, the cessation of dukkha is brought about by ending craving. I can see how, for example, practicing renunciation, or seeing no self, assist us in achieving this, ...
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What prevents us from attaining Nibbana?
What prevents us from attaining Nibbana?
Is it the ignorance or the craving?
So, what should we focus on, in order to attain Nibbana?
Is it uprooting the craving or uprooting the ignorance?
Because ...
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What does craving feel like?
What does craving feel like as a set of sensations (body and mind)? I'm interested the recognition of craving as it occurs in that moment and how other people's lived experience accords with my own. ...
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Nature of Craving in Charm and Impressing Others
I noticed recently that I tend to try and impress others and gather attention, especially with women (I'm a man). I see this as problematic because unlike other sources of craving and attachment, its ...
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How does craving (taṇhā) relate to neutral feelings?
How does craving (taṇhā) manifest with respect to neutral feelings?
In Dependent Origination (or dependent co-arising, however you'd like to call it), it is said that Craving (taṇhā) follows on the ...
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Cravings Arising to Consciousness
I noticed that I usually think in a very abstract manner, without images, just words and ideas. When I try intentionally to think visually, only then does lustful or worry-related images pop up. And, ...
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In the Dependent Origination formula, shouldn't perception precede craving instead of feeling?
In the paticcasamuppada's formulation of the twelve nidanas, vedana precedes tanha.
As far as I currently understand, vedana is just the physiological and psychological -and involuntary- response
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Can volition be without craving? We love and serve because we intend to?
As Observer
Say I observe systems around me --- economics of suffering, arising of crime, even the Dependent Origination --- without craving to maintain, defend, modify, control or destroy the systems....
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Addictive Withdrawal and Buddhism
It's well documented in psychology that the cessation of any type of addictive behaviour causes a period of withdrawal. During this period, less pleasure is experienced overall as well as mental ...
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