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Spiritual Practice Can Be Just as Intoxicating as Drugs, Sex, or Alcohol
Spirituality can be used as a form of escapism too. Don’t trade material attachments for spiritual attachments
Richard said, “I’ve been battling against addiction for a while now. The spiritual practices I’ve learned help when the addiction is calling me, but the problem is having the strength to do the practice and not choose the addiction. Because I know that when I do the practice, it comforts me, and allows me to move away from wanting the thing so badly. But when I don’t choose the practice, I feel a lot of guilt. And even when I go back to the practice after giving in, I feel guilty again because I didn’t choose my spiritual practice in the first place. What can I do about this?”
Owl: “It is the ego that fools you into thinking that you are separate from your Home. Everything you pursue is a pursuit of Wholeness. Yet, you forget that Wholeness is your original nature.
You are moved to seek pleasure because you want to feel at Home. You’re trying to fill an external thing with an internal thing. Pleasures give a taste of Everlasting Bliss, but only for short while. There is always a come down with these sorts of things. And when you come down, you come back into your story of separateness. This…
