Craving 🧠
In Buddhism, craving is a compelling sense of need for something which is expressed through the three unwholesome roots. It involves desire for more pleasant objects, a desire for less painful objects, as well as a dull attachment to neutral objects. Craving is felt in the body as muscle tension and a tightness in the gut, or solar plexus area. Neurologically, craving occurs when dopamine bunds to the nucleus accumbens neurons.
Craving comes in three types: craving for pleasure, craving for existence, and craving for non-existence. The cause and condition for the manifestation of craving is feeling. Craving appears in the four nobel truths as the cause of dissatisfaction.
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Bodhi, Bhikkhu. (2005). In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter IX. SHINING THE LIGHT OF WISDOM (Location 5367). Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications
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Bodhi, Bhikkhu. (2005). In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter IX. SHINING THE LIGHT OF WISDOM (Location 5633). Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications
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Majjhima Nikaya 9: Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta; I 46–55
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Brewer, Judson. (2017). The Craving Mind Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits Chapter 7. Why Is It So Hard to Concentrate—or Is It? (Location 2037). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
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Lustig, H., Robert. (2017). The Hacking of the American Mind The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains Chapter 2. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places (Location 430). New York, NY: Penguin Random House.
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