Reaching itself is always the issue not the thing reached for. Not everything one thinks is healthy is truly supportive. It will take a very settled mind to see if what is considered supportive truly is…
Doing what’s thought to be healthy for your well being needs to be investigated to see if what you’re doing is truly supportive and not just a story of what you think is supportive. Many people play the lottery to become rich so to become rich becomes supportive. Sex is often seen as supportive as is the spiritual path. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, and also their counter parts (their programs) are used as supportive, but as the results of these valued actions may be different, the prison they keep you in is the same. Working out and healthy eating habits are supportive, but many attach a story to them and negate their true value. I know many people are vegans and I have no opinion either way, but no where have I ever read that Jesus or the Buddha valued this as part of their supportive practice. All I’m saying is what I’ve found to be truly supportive needs no story or attachment for certain results.
I can only share my experience and I’ve found reaching for anything in whatever form it takes on is not supportive; the reaching is the issue, not the thing being reached for. To me in the space of just being with what arises in the present moment is truly supportive. Not everything that’s considered healthy is truly supportive in life. It will take a very settled mind to see the subtleness of the attachment to things that are deemed supportive. I say if you‘re reaching for something regardless of what it is, it has no value to your well being and this is because the reaching itself is the issue: this is what keeps you in an unhealthy and unsupportive prison…
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