My understanding is that craving is just desire for something. Eg: There is hunger.

Clinging is an emotional investment in the fulfillment or outcome of that desire. Eg: I'm hungry and if my meal doesn't arrive soon I'm going to scream!

Any breach of copyright is illegal and is stealing. That's why we have copyright laws. These days everyone seems to make a lot of poor excuses about it, like if you don't want it stolen don't put it on the net, or it's not really hurting anyone, or it should be free... But the fact remains that taki...

Thanks for your replies. So equanimity is indifference as objectivity, rather than indifference as apathy. You can still care about something without getting emotionally involved. Does that sound about right? But then I thought that compassion, love and sympathetic joy were emotional involvement. Bu...

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I’ve been doing a lot of reading about the four immeasurables and I need some clarification on the definition of equanimity. My understanding is that equanimity is non-judgement, which to me means indifference, but this doesn’t make sense along side concepts of compassion, love and sympathetic joy. ...

Hi I’m new here. Found this forum trying to find out what happened to e-sangha. Anyway, I got into Buddhism a few years ago and am at a point where I have realised just how life changing this stuff really is. Still have so much to learn though. I started out in Theravada and then swapped to Zen for ...