Who You Are Without Your Wants: Episode 3 (Desirelessness)

Desirelessness is the word in this book that makes people flinch. It sounds like being asked to want nothing and float grey and flat above your own life. Theo and Lena take that fear seriously, starting from the book's own worry: that if you stripped away your wants, there might be nobody left. From there they follow the teaching into its stranger corners, the high-minded wants that turn out to be the same old appetite in nicer clothes, the quiet failure of trust behind wanting to be thanked, and why silence is the hardest of all. Not a life with less feeling, but a life with less pull.