Excerpt From Healing From Within With Chi Nei Tsang continued
Lust is sexual craving. It is born out of the inability to satisfy
our sexuality. We try over and over again, often with different
partners, with the sad result that every unsuccessful attempt builds
a potential of failure that inevitably will end up in depression.
A lack of knowing better in matters of sexual satisfaction, an overload
of pent-up energy, and being manic-depressive, are usually the different
factors that lead to lust. Yielding to sexual cravings leads rapidly
to a huge loss of vital energy and is very destructive to oneself
and others.
Unfortunately, in our much-distressed industrialized world we
easily lose faith in ourselves and look for guidance and approval
through systems of aesthetics geared toward mass consumption of
products heavily advertised. The quality of these products is
such that they wouldn't stand a chance without the hypnotic power
of commercials. I personally associate pornography, the over-exposure
of sexually explicit material designed to induce craving for sex,
with over-exposure to food products designed to induce food cravings.
Both originate from greed and seeking short-term rewards, and
both only provoke disgust in the healthy person.
THE INNER GUIDANCE OF THE APPETITE
Healthy people are in touch with their appetites and are able
to satisfy them. Once we have a healthy appetite we can eat anything
we want, any time we want it and there is nothing wrong with committing
a little excess from time to time. As the Taoist saying goes:
"For health and happiness everything in life is to be enjoyed.
To keep enjoying it, take everything in moderation, including
moderation!" Dr. Chang, on of my most influential teachers,
used to say that it is healthier to get very drunk once a month
than to drink a glass of wine or beer every day, since our body
does not have time in twenty-four hours to detoxify completely
from alcohol. Drinking only once a month, even if we get drunk,
will allow the body enough time to detoxify completely.
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