Favorable Actions

Reaching is always the issue not the thing reached for. Not everything one thinks is healthy is truly favorable. It will take a very settled mind to see if what is considered favorable truly is…

Doing what’s healthy for your well being needs to be investigated to see if what you’re doing truly is favorable and not just a story of what you think is favorable. Many people play the lottery to become rich so to become rich becomes favorable. Sex is often seen as favorable, as is the spiritual path. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, and also their counter parts (their programs) are used as favorable, but as the results of these valued actions may be different, the prison they keep you in is the same. Working out and healthy eating habits are favorable, but many attach a story to them and negate their true value. I know many people are vegans and I have no opinion either way, but no where have I ever read that Jesus or the Buddha valued this as part of their practice. All I’m saying is what I’ve found to be truly favorable needs no story or attachment for certain results.

I can only share my experience and I’ve found reaching for anything in whatever form it takes on is not favorable. The reaching is the issue, not the thing being reached for. To me in the space of just being with what arises in the present moment is truly favorable. Not everything you consider healthy is truly favorable in your life. It will take a very settled mind to see the subtleness of the attachment to things that are deemed favorable. I say if you‘re reaching for something regardless of what it is, it has no value to your well being and this is because the reaching itself is the issue: this is what keeps you in an unfavorable prison…