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Originally Posted by Lumen
Yes, that is a very good point about self acceptance going a long way towards happiness. I completely agree.
It also reminds me of a chapter of a book called "The Book of Secrets" by Deepak Chopra where he talks about the full self needing to be exposed so that you can bring the Universal intelligence within to your inner flaws and by using such attention you can fix the issues and become more whole as a being.
Just thought that would be interesting to add to this conversation :)
I'm glad you are happy within yourself, sometimes I struggle to let go of my conceptualized self you know because I feel like if I let go I might return to what I deem to be bad habits since they are so deeply engraved in my conditioning, but I guess since they have never stained my being, if I am in that place I will be able to see clearly what is not right for me.
Do you think my brain will stop craving things? I'm kind of thinking about the more minor addictions like food and games like I would cigarettes for example.
I know that when I smoked I used to love the feeling, crave cigarettes and be annoyed and angry if I had to go any reasonable amount of time without being able to smoke one. But when I quit, I had intense cravings for a while and wondered how the heck I was going to never smoke again and then eventually with abstinence the cravings went away totally and I wondered why I even smoked in the first place.
So I am looking at gaming, for example, like that. I actually crave to play a game of battlefield and fantasize about it and imagine myself flying a fighter jet in it and winning air to air battles! lol
But I know that it is bad for my attention, my emotional system and it makes me angry all the time and actually releases adrenaline when I am in the intensity of the virtual combat, so I don't want to play it again but it is pulling me in like cigarettes used to lol
The same goes for food. Sometimes I want to eat for the fun of it but I know that is another desire and addiction that makes me crave and I know craving is one of the aspects of suffering so I want it to stop eventually and I am just hoping that it will, you see?
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Well, it's very liberating when you see, or get to the place where you know that none of 'that stuff' can keep you from being your full spiritual self in this life . Then 'that stuff' isn't your enemy , it's stuff you like to do, so you can do it , and it won't interfere . It'll be badass spiritual you kicking butt in games (my wife is into Far Cry 4 right now , and she's playing it a lot !
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The whole thing being that life becomes within a spiritual context and framework, not spirituality crammed into a life-on-Earth context . That switcheroo is the key
