Everyday Addictions and Enlightenment
15Everyday Addictions and Enlightenment is Part 2, I suppose, carrying on from my previous Everyday Addictions vlog of a while ago. I talk about how we're probably all addicted to something, and what, if anything, to do about it. I mention all the common addictions, like cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, social media and worse, plus the elephant in the room, thinking - especially ego-based thinking. This is where enlightenment comes in. The realisation that most of us are as addicted to this type of thinking as we are to sugar provides an interesting way in to learning how we might train ourselves to dis-identify with egoic thinking. I also link this to the Christian concepts of humility and letting God run our lives - the same, I suspect, as the cosmic side of Buddhist enlightenment where once the ego is no longer taken seriously, you just are, as the Universe has made you.
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