The Couch Is Too Comfortable.

[LetTheNewDayBegin]

In order to get enligthened one needs to get rid of cravings and attachments.

I've done a lot of work about not being attached to the past, pleasure, money, things, situations, arrangements, food, media, thoughts and so on. I've stopped eating cheetos and I've stopped watching TV. I even know exactly what my life purpose is and what I do for work is aligned with it. Yet, after work, I still sit in my couch most of the day.

It's clear that I'm attached to the comfort and the status quo.

How does one get out of this deep low-energy comfort hole? Please help.

[Deep]

4 minutes ago, LetTheNewDayBegin said:

In order to get enligthened one needs to get rid of cravings and attachments.

How does one get out of this deep low-energy comfort hole? Please help.

Not necessarily, you have to do what you naturally feel like. Don't be attached to the thought of it being a low-energy comfort hole otherwise you will feel guilty. Enlightenment is realizing there is no separate self so you're always doing what you're supposed to. 

[Dodo]

1 minute ago, Deep said:

Not necessarily, you have to do what you naturally feel like. Don't be attached to the thought of it being a low-energy comfort hole otherwise you will feel guilty. Enlightenment is realizing there is no separate self so you're always doing what you're supposed to. 

I second that. @LetTheNewDayBegin When the guilt is gone, maybe you will naturally change your habits too. Who can say? It's all fate.

[LetTheNewDayBegin]

I don't believe it's guilt. Or maybe there's a bit of it?

Anyway, I'm not anxious about it. It's just that I am aware of the fact that I tend to head in the direction of lowest energy expenditure. I take long warm baths and I sit in the couch. It's great! It is what it is. Yet, I see it could change, but it doesn't.

Maybe it just needs to be waited out as you all say.

Edited January 14, 2017 by LetTheNewDayBegin

[Gabriel Antonio]

why follow what Leo say so blindly? what i would suggest is to exaggerate your behavior. so sit on your couch even though you don't feel like it anymore so that you TRULY know how it makes you feel. at one point, you will simply outgrow it.

[LetTheNewDayBegin]

Thank you guys! It turns out it wasn't a problem with my attachment to comfort. It's just that I was partitioning my life very unnecesarily.

And when I had realised that, in that moment, my couch turned into a Golden Budda. Here's an authentic picture:

I'm so happy now, you wouldn't believe :-)

[Bob84]

@LetTheNewDayBegin  By being honest with yourself. You are not detaching at all, you are just replacing one attachment with a other attachment and labeling one good and the other bad. I know your are currently unable to do otherwise, but just be aware of this.

[Tancrede Pouyat]

Seems to me like you're attached to what you call "not being attached."

[LetTheNewDayBegin]

@Bob84 Good points. Here's a picture of a fox in the snow on the wood for you:

@Tancrede Pouyat  You are right. It seems so. Here's a picture of rad flowers for you: