From the Buddhist POV, we all need rehab

This month in our Open Mind series, Venerable Robina Courtin, a Buddhist nun from Australia, talks with pro­ducer Peter Aronson about how all of us are like addicts.

It's this constant assumption that I must get what I want, every split second.

—Ven. Robina Courtin

As she explains it, while we may crave dif­fer­ent things, from a Buddhist point of view we all share the same fun­da­men­tal prob­lem: We’re dri­ven by aching, crav­ing need of “the junkie mind.”