Really good post. In my experience, at least some degree of nondual realization makes handling addictions WAY easier.
It's no longer me handling a force, fixing myself, purifying my psyche. It really feels like what Rumi said:
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself"
Marvin Keilbachx.comReally good post. In my experience, at least some degree of nondual realization makes handling addictions WAY easier. It's no longer me handling a force, fixing myself, purifying my psyche. It really feels like what Rumi said: "Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself"
All addiction, at its heart, is addiction to unconsciousness.
It doesn’t matter if it’s social media addiction or heroin addiction.
The addict is always trying to block out consciousness by covering it in stimulation or numbness.
This means the cure to addiction is always more consciousness.
But consciousness can’t just be willed into existence.
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It doesn’t matter if it’s social media addiction or heroin addiction.
The addict is always trying to block out consciousness by covering it in stimulation or numbness.
This means the cure to addiction is always more consciousness.
But consciousness can’t just be willed into existence.
Instead... See more
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But ego is not a thing. Ego is a process. Ego is the ongoing act of identifying with thoughts, memories, desires, and fears. When this identification stops, the ego vanishes instantly. There is nothing to kill, cleanse, or battle. There is only a pattern of thinking.
Pollution: karma, ego residue, and the illusion of spiritual contamination.
Eriks reply to my sharing Bayo:
Thank you, so much, Jeremy Prentice for sharing this.
It’s always fascinating to learn other peoples perspectives, and stories, and reflect on the realities we all manifest/shape around our ‘selves’.
As you eloquently mentioned, we move within life like planets generating our own gravities, within which we attract and
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