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A Year of Dancing with Life - 52 Teachings from Phillip Moffitt

The Three Kinds of Craving Week  18

The Buddha identified three distinct kinds of craving. First is your craving for the six kinds of sense desires…The second type of craving is the desire for becoming what you are not…The third type of craving arises when you are so disillusioned with something in your life and want to get rid of it or want it to cease with such intensity that you crave nonexistence. Life seems unbearable and you are flooded with aversion to life itself.

Dancing with Life
, Chapter 9, pp. 82-83

For your reflection: Begin to cultivate the ability to distinguish the three kinds of craving in your own life. Which type is the most difficult for you to identify? See if you can start to identify the particular body sensations that arise with each kind of craving.

© Phillip Moffitt 2012

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Phillip Moffitt

At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. He subsequently founded the Life Balance Institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Phillip is a co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the author of Dancing with Life. 

 
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