Are you held captive by you? Your senses and way of life?

Everyone wants freedom, but how do you know if you are free?

Not because you’re not locked in a prison cell all day means you’re not a liberated being, you very well may be, ‘Just like the majority of the population in society,’ a captive of YOURSELF.

So, what exactly am I getting at here.
To make it as easy for you to realize your major fault, I’ll have you examine yourself, rather than me examining you, and judging you, someone I don’t even know.

So here goes,
How much control do you think you have over your SELF, with the SELF being your senses, and way of life.
You more than likely have very minimal control of yourself, and while you may be wondering “Who are you to tell me how much control I have of myself, I’m totally fine, not drunk, not high, nothing, what are you talking about?” – Sorry for the long monolouge, but that’s very much what most of you may be thinking.

The fact is not being able to control your senses is one of the most deadliest and dangerous ways of human living, lets review why;
Lets start asking yourself a few questions, starting with your senses.

1. Taste – How many of you think that you could prepare sumptious meal and place it infront of you at a table and sit there for minutes and not take a single bite?
   From the surface this doesn’t seem like a big deal, but think of it this way. – So many of you are controlled by your pleasure senses, where most of the time you’re not even hungry, yet you eat and eat for the satisfaction of your captor (PLEASURE). But hey, don’t get me wrong I’m not saying pleasure is a bad thing, it only becomes a bad thing when the things that are associated with pleasure are detrimental to your very being, and worst if it’s uncontrollable. Which in many cases it is.
   Going back to the food, we see if you for pleasure and can’t control it, you’re doing a very bad deed to your body, seeing that eating too much can cause Obesity, heart disease and ultimately a very unhealthy body, and unfortunately indeed, is the fact that most of the foods which bring pleasure to us are the ones that cause harm to us, most times in every fibre of our being.
   So; Question: Are you going willing to be held captor to your pleasure senses and eat for pleasure and dig yourself an early grave? – On to the next point then….
2. Sexual Pleasure – *I try to keep my Blog very G Rated but this is a very important one for this topic*
   Lets examine the captor of Sexual pleasure. Look around, listen to the news; have you not heard the countless stories of Rape and Sexual Abuse, where sometimes people who you may think are completely normal literally changes personalities as soon as aroused and has the capability to cause acts of attrocities like hurting innocent young girls, just for their sexual satisfaction.
   And ask yourself the question: How much control do YOU have in the sexual act, when aroused. Where it’s liteally becoming a difficculty… a challenge, not to make a girl pregnant for some of the folk out there. Think about it, how many of you can pause in the middle of the act, and just walk away. I know it’s unrealistic to do and who would, but just food for thought, are you even Capable of breaking such impense pleasure? – You may think it’s a choice of yours, but think about it, especially males who are watching this.
   How much times have you ever regret sleeping with someone? As a matter of a fact, for the sake of the whole topic; “HOW MUCH TIMES HAVE YOU EVER DONE SOMETHING AND REGRETTED IT THE VERY NEXT SECOND, AFTER Whatever Pleasure it gave wore off?” My point exactly……
3. Addiction – I tell you this now, heart disease, cancer or crime is by far no where near the number one killer in the world.
   Think about it, none of what I listed above would ’hardly’ exist if this one very thing didn’t, and that’s indeed addiction.
   You don’t believe me? Lets break down those three causes of death I listed at the start of the point: (Heart Disease, Major Cause: Food Addiction) – (Cancer: Major Cause: ADDICTIONS, from food, to cigarrettes and the list goes on), – (Crime: Major Cause: Addiction to Drugs, Money, Sex and the list goes on). Note I used the word “Major Cause,” while it’s not always the case, it sure is most of the time.
   And what is addiction? The definition I’ll use in this article for the sake of the headline is: “Held Captive by the self in Maximum Security prison.” I think that metaphor surely is fitting to it’s definition, because truly, addiction; is very much a (curable) “disease” that has one totally controlled  by the sense pleasure created by some substance or act.

The fact is that many of the pleasures in society today, we are in fact addicted to… Even the slightest of things.
As a teenager, I went to high school just like any other, and of course, I spread my philosophy to a few, open minded enough to accept it, actually, there’s just one or two I’d say is open-minded to accepting this philosophy, and let me tell you; Just to get these kids to stop listening to the mind corrupting music of this modern age, the hip hop and rap, stuff like that, with morally and ethically crippling lyrics was a MAJOR Challenge. I mean, c’mon it’s music, what’s the big challenge to stop listening to it, however it was, and I never force anyone to stop anything their doing, I just provide the philosophy and they do what they wish with it, and one 1 single person I’d say even came close to giving up listening to a few of these songs. But imagine that, it’s just music, and we have these kids with the will to act on my philosophy having a hard time to stop listening to it.
You see this is exactly how society is set up today.
In a nutshell it goes like this…
“The desire for sense gratification leads to greed, which leads to more greed, and by this greed creating more greed, and ultimately synthesizing a society based on attachment and greed.” – Think about that for a second… In reality it would translate to.
The world elite who desire opulence to gratify their senses become greedy for that which will provide it “Money” – and by that the society is structured where, starting with the corporations, things are marketing to have consumer totally attached to what their purchasing, they target especially the kids, to be attached to what they own and to think they are what they own. <- For more on that look up the documentary “Consuming Kids.”
They also put addictive chemicals as you know into the things we buy, like nicotine in the cigarettes, and basically lure you into your prison cell on deathrow, being a smoker, or addictive chemicals in junk food to have your kids coming back for that “tasty stuff” which in fact are all mostly just lumps of chemicals – which your children are eating.

The simple fact is, one of the major causes to issues in the world right now is being attached to sense gratification. Once again, think about it, will the wars of the world even exist, if there weren’t greed, which arises from being attached to gratifying the senses with opulence? Many will have their opinions on that topic but it’s all the same cause.

So……..
I’m here preaching to you to completely  detached from the senses, where even you may be thinking right now is a very far-fetched concept, is there an easy solution to solving the issue to being held captive by the senses?

Yes, indeed there is…. it’s a common solution to every issue you have.
Blaise Pascel said it best when he said: – “All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room”

You may be thinking, “But you sit still in your room all the time,” but how many times have you sat still with a clear mind, ready to reason with yourself on ANY issue you face? Most of the time, especially for the lower to middle class, it’s the constant worry of tomorrow, and how you’re going to afford this and that tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow, worry, worry, worry….. And when tomorrow comes, it’s: “Tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow, worry, worry, worry” once again, an endless cycle, where at your death bed you wonder if you ever lived or “How it went by so fast,” this is because you’re living with contstant obstacles, and instead of thinking, as soon as your upset or disturbed just a tad bit you seek sense enjoyment right away.
Take this scenario for example.

Someone wins the lottery and immediately thinks they have to fill that the void of the feeling of lack they had for so long,
and hence the spending begins, and in no time, they’re in a worst position they were before even winning the lottery, and many times they may think “What just happened,” as if were unconscious the whole time, this is what happens when you live by the sense and not by a clear mind.

I can lecture for hours and hours on this topic and give countless examples and have you asking so many questions of yourself, but for the sake of not boring you, I’ll cut it short here.

Hope you can appreciate the point I was trying to portray to you in this article.
And I know if you take the least of it a bit serious in your life, there can be a huge difference in your life.

Cheers,
Zane

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I’d like to apologies for not posting articles as much as I used to, but seeing society as is today I’m pretty sure I can help a few more people by the philosophies I live by, hence I’ll be creating a Youtube Video Vlog Channel so I can speak to you guys without having you read a thing, I’ll also post on them here on the Blog as well.
So keep an Eye out for that, I should start with this topic.

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QUOTES ON THE TOPIC:
““The pleasures that arise from contact between the senses and their objects are in truth the sources of all suffering.” – Sri Krsna 3000+ BCE

“I don’t understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don’t know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ”
- Andrew Vachss

“All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.”
Francois Fenelon

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