Hungry Ghosts: the t haunt/insatiable hunger that can't be filled

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https://tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Hungry_Ghosts:_their_History_and_Origin

Also, hungry ghosts. Spirits who suffer from hunger and thirst as karmic retribution for their greed, selfishness, and jealousy while they were alive. Buddhist scriptures describe hungry spirits as beings with throats as small as needles and distended bellies.

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Hungry ghosts are the demon-like creatures described in Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, Sikh, and Jain texts as the remnants of the dead who are afflicted with insatiable desire, hunger or thirst as a result of bad deeds or evil intent carried out in their life times. Found in every part of the Far East, from the Philippines to Japan and China, Thailand, Laos, Burma, India and Pakistan, they are universally described as human-like wraiths with mummified skin, narrow withered limbs, grossly bulging stomachs, long thin necks and tiny mouths.

Defined by a fusion of rage and desire, tormented by unfulfilled cravings and insatiably demanding impossible satisfactions, hungry ghosts are condemned to inhabit shadowy and dismal places in the realm of the living. Their specific hunger varies according to their past karma and the sins they are atoning for. Some can eat but find it impossible to find food or drink. Others may find food and drink, but have pinhole mouths and cannot swallow. For others, food bursts into flames or rots even as they devour it.

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(Western psychology and analysis seems unable to define the t disorder, and those who follow him. Hungry ghosts rings clear to me.)

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1. A Buddhist friend once told me about a hungry ghost

which subsisted off human excrement (don’t know how the unfortunate wraith got that assignment). He said that, as a child, he had an uneasy sense that something was anticipating his trips to the bathroom, eager to devour his offerings.