AleksM

Intellectual / Spiritual materialism

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Intellectual materialism - excessively grasping for information, needing information, trusting a thought that one will be complete when we learn that additional piece of information that just came on the horizon

Spiritual materialism - a thought that one needs a certain state to be complete... looking for that state and making justifications for why we're not complete because we're not in that state 

 

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Both are fundamentally a movement of thought to complete itself with itself - which is bound to fail in the long term, but that is how the ego is perpetuated.

Edited by Flammable

You see, the reason you want to be better, is the reason why you aren’t. Shall I put it like that?

We aren't better, because we want to be.

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  On 11/22/2018 at 5:28 PM, AleksM said:

Sharing insights. ^_^

Intellectual materialism - excessively grasping for information, needing information, trusting a thought that one will be complete when we learn that additional piece of information that just came on the horizon

Spiritual materialism - a thought that one needs a certain state to be complete... looking for that state and making justifications for why we're not complete because we're not in that state 

 

Agree or do you have a better definition?

So many people are fucked ????


God is love

Whoever lives in love lives in God

And God in them

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Very important, although nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_materialism

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Spiritual materialism is the belief that a certain temporary state of mind is a refuge from suffering. An example would be using meditation practices to create a peaceful state of mind, or using drugs or alcohol to remain in a numbed out or a euphoric state. According to Trungpa, these states are temporary and merely heighten the suffering when they cease. So attempting to maintain a particular emotional state of mind as a refuge from suffering, or constantly pursuing particular emotional states of mind like being in love, will actually lead to more long term suffering.

 

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