Our afflictions may take on many guises, and can include both pleasure and vexation. For example, feeling tired or energetic is natural and is not itself an affliction. If however, we crave the energetic state and worry about the tired state that is vexation. Being hungry is a physical condition, and eating to satisfy your hunger is also natural. But desiring a gourmet dinner and eating beyond the limits of satisfaction is vexation. Whenever greed, anger, or delusion is involved, there is affliction.
---Master Sheng Yen---
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. See the link below for more info.
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