The mind combats the natural flow of change by allowing most of its motivation to come from craving. Cravings quickly become attachments that try to … - Yung Pueblo

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The mind combats the natural flow of change by allowing most of its motivation to come from craving. Cravings quickly become attachments that try to mold reality into something it is not. Cravings are a rejection of reality as it is, and bring our focus into imagining what is missing or how we wish things would be. When our desire for things to be a certain way combines with tension, craving emerges. When we lock on to a particular idea and make our “happiness” dependent on it coming true, we are no longer living in the present moment — instead, we are striving to control reality. A continuous craving for things to be a certain way is known as “attachment.