We can describe “addiction” as compulsive behavior that we have trouble controlling, and which hurts ourselves and other people around us. There are of course the obvious physical addictions: eating too much; spending too much time on the internet; the irresponsible use of alcohol; smoking cigarettes.
But there are also emotional addictions, although in many cases these may be considered socially acceptable: an addiction to overworking, or being too busy; addiction to the adulation or attention of others; addiction to focusing on the negative side of life; addiction to thinking poorly of ourselves.
Underneath these physical and emotional addictions-according to the wisdom tradition of the ancient East-lies an addiction to a certain view of the world: an addiction to a mistaken idea of how everything in the world works. And according to this wisdom, we can break our other addictions-no matter how strong they may be, and no matter how long they have plagued us-if we break this philosophical addiction.
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