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The way to heaven passes through hell.

Life has opposites. You appreciate the good because there is the bad . You appreciate the light because there is darkness .

Addiction is one of life’s deepest traps. It doesn’t begin because someone is weak. Or because they want to destroy themselves. More often it begins because they are searching for something every human longs for. Peace. Happiness. Relief. Love. Or even a sense of the divine. As someone who is addicted to nicotine myself. I know it is more than just an emotional escape. There is a real physical dependence on the substance. That makes walking away incredibly difficult. People often say. Just quit. But they don’t understand the battle happening inside. Many who struggle with addiction carry invisible burdens. Chronic illness. Emotional pain. Childhood trauma. Depression. Loneliness. Or an existential crisis that leaves them searching for meaning. The drug. The cigarette. The drink. It offers temporary comfort. For a brief moment it quiets the storm. But eventually you awaken to the painful truth. The very thing that promised relief has been deepening your suffering all along. Breaking free isn’t always as simple as making a decision. Sometimes life has to teach us through experience. Sometimes karma has to run its course. Until you finally see that the addiction is no longer easing your pain. It has become part of it. Those lessons are often learned the hard way. So before judging someone trapped in addiction. Remember that every person has a story you cannot see. Don’t condemn people for the wisdom they haven’t yet gained. Or the experiences they haven’t yet lived through. Compassion reaches places that judgment never will. I believe that at their core. Most people are acting from what they believe will bring them relief. Peace. Or happiness. We may choose the wrong paths. But the longing beneath them is deeply human. What people need most isn’t condemnation. They need understanding. Patience. And hope.

Honestly I think the only way to get really enlightened is to abandon society and meditate in a cave . Enlightenment retreats are good to some extent though . online enlightenment is just entertainment.

This is not a scientific term . It’s not meant as a technical definition or a rigid category but just a practical way of grouping common habits that many people feel like to consume time in without adding much long-term value.

People who are not so developed and wise .the average Joe you meet on the street .

It’s only after you waste so much time and energy being engaged in these habits like Scrolling social media feeds without a clear purpose…And Comparing and measuring yourself against others instead of living your own live.. . And Overthinking and over analyzing endlessly instead of deciding and acting. And especially Arguing and especially online debates that rarely change anyone’s mind. And doomscrolling constantly checking notifications on email or even this forum. Also being obsessed with knowledge and constantly jumping from one video to a book to a post etc …I say only after you are consumed in these things and exhausted were you able to step back and see that that very lifestyle is what is making you miserable. So yes the average person doesn’t see this complexity taxing until he’s already stuck in it and unable to unplug from it .

There isn’t really any contradiction between what I’m saying and what you’re saying . The average person is caught up in endless pursuits..believing they’re making progress without realizing they’re trapped in the endless maze of modern life. Escaping that mindset requires a level of awareness and wisdom that most people never develop. The ability to step back and see the bigger picture of how dysfunctional many aspects of the modern world have become is indeed for advanced people.Many people are absorbed in online communities..internet slang..and constant debates and experiencing stress and anxiety without recognizing that these environments may be contributing to those feelings.

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@AsafTheMagniv thanks for your advice my friend. I was just expressing something I notice with the modern world that almost everyone in today’s society is stuck in . I’m not personally overwhelmed by it because I’m able to take a meta picture and realize what is going on . And I wanted to express my observations. thank you for the practical steps you listed .

Was my love life written by you… or by someone with a strange sense of humor? 😅

Being okay with dying reflects maturity and wisdom and lack of attachments . But “wanting to die “ reflects suffering and misery. I don’t want to die .

Man I’m only 30 and im already getting sick and tired of carrying my bag of flesh and bones already . Lmao. you are 48 and you look like an elderly grandpa already lol . Stress makes age faster .

There is no contradiction between the ultimate answer is unknowable or incomprehensible (which it is ) and that still we can approach more and more accurate understanding of reality which is NOT just beliefs taken on blind faith like religious dogma. Knowledge is possible even relatively speaking . Even the notion of there not being a separate self was introduced to you at some late point in your life . Even the idea that reading and thinking and learning should be dropped was acquired by learning and reading about it . Again I don’t disagree that in the most absolute sense we don’t know shit but at the relative level knowledge is possible. Look at something like AI. Who would design AI..Elon Musk or Tony Parsons ?

@Breakingthewall is suffering funny though?