The Beginning of the End of Gluttony Gluttony is based in the belief that you have a bottomless void in you. Your egoic mind logically and frantically tries to fill this emptiness with that which is outside of you. This could be: food, love, money, experiences, receiving compliments, objects, physical locations, shopping, order, fashion, friends, support, spiritual truths, etc. There is nothing inherently evil about any one of these, but it is being chained to the endless anticipation that they will complete and fulfill you that keeps you sleepwalking on this treadmill of greed. The peace you are seeking will only be found through a radical shift in approach. Sit still. Pause. Notice your breathing. Stop seeking for the moment, and see what happens. Be with the emptiness without doing what you normally do to fill it. Feel what starts to happen to the seeker in the exact moment when there is no seeking. When you tap into the part of you that does not need a different experience than what is present, a different awareness dawns, and a new kind of peace begins to emerge. Engaging in spiritual practices that bring you into the present starts an intentional relationship with the Life that is living you, now. This begins to let the air out of being a seeker. This may just be the beginning of the end of gluttony.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:30:00 +0000
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