Pleasure and Pain with Noah Levine

Against The Stream - A podcast by Noah Levine

The Buddha. As he discovered mindfulness and really started to investigate his own direct experience, he saw everything perceived as, “pleasant and unpleasant and neutral” But, we have this instinctual craving - drive - to cling to the pleasure; to want it to feel good. And we don't have much built-in tolerance for pain. We have aversion. We have resistance to pain.