Knowing what Lust Brings You
Every ego no matter how small or large brings us something
or is useful for some end. Every ego is a mini functionalism of our psychology
meaning that every ego is used to do something, to attain something, to bring
something etc. to us.
Lust – No Exception
The ego of lust and the other smaller egos of lust are no
exception. They all have their payback.
Attached to the Benefits
We are in actual fact, attached to what the ego of lust or
the egos of lust bring to us. We may like what they bring to us and we may find
what they bring to us as good and useful. We may find what lust brings to us as
true, as authentic, as right and as real. We may see what lust brings to us as
the only valuable thing in life, or as the only way of doing things related to sexuality.
The reason why we keep lust and the egos of lust alive in us,
is because we simply see what it brings us as useful, as good, as nice, as
right, as real etc. As soon as we see what lust brings us in a different light,
in a true light we will stop believing in the goodness of what lust brings us.
Disclaimer and a Guarantee
I just want to say at this point, that we have to see for
ourselves the truth of the ego. We have to gaze at the ego, and what it brings
to us, without any lenses and in the light of the truth. If you do, you are
going to see that the benefits that the ego brings to you are not what they
seem to be, that is they are not really that good in the end, they are not real
and they are not correct. This is hard at first to see, but it is a guarantee.
Your very own experience will back this up. This is not to brain wash yourself
into thinking that the ego is bad and wrong, but it is to experience the ego
and what it brings in the light of reality free or beyond the hypnotic grip of
the ego of lust.
Hypnosis of Lust
Here lies the problem or hypnosis of lust. We believe in
what lust brings us as useful. When we break this hypnosis we have done more
than half of the job of eliminating the ego or egos of lust, whichever it
happens that we are working on.
Most Difficult of All the Steps
This is by far the most difficult of the five steps. It
really requires a lot of work. We have to repeatedly question the belief and
perception that the benefits that the ego brings to us are useful, pleasant,
beneficial etc. As soon as we see them for what they are, or as they really are
(which is not so useful, not so beneficial and expendable) we break free from
the hypnotic grip. All we have to do then is to replace that function with the work
that is with transmutation (see step 3). An example of this is that lust wants
to exhaust the sexual energy and the result is the that the sexual energy is
removed or used up to the demise of the person, but transmutation does the
exactly same thing but the energy is not wasted it is converted into an energy
of higher more spiritual quality and is absorbed by the brain, heart,
consciousness and goes to create the internal bodies which are the superior
existential bodies of the Being, the very well known astral, mental and causal
bodies.
Getting Practical Now – Take Action!
Know the Benefits – Write a List
Write down as honestly as you can all the benefits that the
ego of lust brings you. If you find that hard take one small ego of lust and
write down the benefits that it brings you. Be very honest, be brutally honest,
honest without reservation. Face yourself, see yourself exactly as you are no
matter how alarming and ugly you find it. Only by facing it, looking at it and accepting
that you have it can you change to be something dignifying devoid of that ugliness.
Are they Real?
Question these beliefs about what the ego brings to you and
ask yourself searching for the most honest reply possible as to whether these
benefits are really pleasant and good, whether they are real, whether they are
correct, whether they are authentic, whether they are needed and whether I can
get the same but through a more honest, decent and edifying and dignifying
means, one that I don’t have to hide and one that does not disadvantage/harm me
or the other spiritually, psychology and physically.
See that what they Bring can be Brought by the Work (Specifically
Transmutation)
Ask yourself again as to whether these benefits can be
replaced by the work. See that they can and come to the conclusion that lust is
not needed when we have the work and the transmutation.
See step 3 for an in depth description of this step.
Summary
Break the hypnotic grip of lust by questioning and
questioning the usefulness of what it brings to us and see that these benefits it
can be gotten through a different means. A means that this is more edifying and
dignifying and therefore we don’t need lust it is redundant.
If we find the means of the work boring and unsatisfying for
example, then question that again and again and be very sure that the work and
the transmutation is not boring and dissatisfying. I think that you can make
the work very interesting and satisfying, when we transfer our interests into
the results of the spiritual work we will find the work so very necessary,
valuable and interesting to us.
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