Addicting
posted by Woodsy
Ms Army Pants: You are obsessed!
Woodsy: No I am addicted.
Below is a quote from the book that I am reading, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Maté.
“There are almost as many addictions as there are people. In Brahmajala Sutta, the spiritual master Gotama identifies many pleasures as potentially addictive.
…Some ascetics and Brahmins…remain addicted to attending such shows as dancing, singing, music, displays, recitations. Hand music, cymbals and drums, fairy shows…combats with elephants, buffaloes, bulls, rams;…
Gotama, known to us as Buddha, lived and taught about twenty-five hundred years ago in what are now Nepal and northern India. Today he might also include in his sermon: sugar, caffeine, talk show, gourmet cooking, music buying, right-or left-wing politics…”
I would like to add blogging to this list. But I can’t decide if I am addicted to blogging, or if I am addicted to my blogging?
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5 comments:
This is worthy of meditation, Woodsy. Thanks for bringing a more reflective element to the self-referential wanking crew.
ESI crew, can you teach me this self-deferential wanking art form?
hey, that's a picture of me! awwww
Pandora...I was hoping that you would notice... I like the way Warwick captured your innocence...
aw, innocence, those were the days...
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