Don’t let addictive wanting keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive wanting (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s addictively wanted…
If you’re always addictively wanting it’s because you don’t think what you have is enough. If you don’t think you have enough, there will always be something to addictively want. Wanting isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one wants addictively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is addictively wanted only matters to the degree in how the thing affects your life. The addiction to drink alcohol in access has consequences much different than the addiction to go to a program to stop using it. Make no mistake though, the addictions core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of addictive wanting lull you into unconsciousness because all wanting leads to bondage in one form or another, and as stated this includes all addictions.
You might say that’s not true, an addiction to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly in the present is the only place the peace of not needing to addictively have things different is experienced. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, where’s the benefit. I say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you will find it’s not providing the benefits you thought it would; shortly afterwards more gold will be addictively wanted. Investigate this and see how addictions arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the addictive wanting of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…
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