When you feel addicted to something in the world, it feels like your actions are the problem. It seems that if you could stop or regulate the behavior, you’d be home free. Your thoughts say, I just need to control my behavior. But how? The main addiction of the mind is judgment. But the mind wasn’t created to judge; it was created to “be.” So trying to control it, on any level, doesn’t work. At some point, you’ll have to do a major mind “overhaul,” and look at all thoughts about cause and effect. “Temptation” is simply the desire to want to make illusions real. It does this through preferences and hierarchies of bodies and other structures. But the ego hates the body as much as it claims to love it; raising “idols” up and then tearing them down. When we focus on the miracle, other things fall away.
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