Everything around you is tempting you away from a spiritual life. From your life in oneness with the spirit of God.
Within your room there are so many distractions that by mere sight alone draw you to them. By simply peering at them, they cause your mind to go into thoughts of what to do with them.
In the electronic age of ever-connectedness we have the ability for everything around us to be but one more connection to the internet. Where the internet itself just happens to be a world of endless paths that could never been seen quite fully.
The entire world lies in your palm, while you’re holding your cell phone, your computer, or tablet.
Some of the most physically influencing objects are the ones able to connect to the internet, the same ones that we keep in our home.
There’s a pure lust in curiosity these objects fill us with.
It’s for this reason that TikTok, Reels, Shorts, any of these endless feeds of rolling clips are so ruling of our time.
When we start them it’s hard to stop. That spirit of curiosity once activated, thirsts desperately to be fed with more curious things.
Whatever can access the internet tickles the curiosity, which in itself isn’t bad, as a book cover can do this same thing. The issue lies in the fact that what a book can do for one subject, an internet connected device can do for a trillion times that- actually an unlimited amount of possibilities.
Whatever you can imagine, you can be rest assured it was imagined by someone else, and it exists to be found somewhere on the internet.
The search engine, a great convenience in its early years- itself started as more of a query answering tool used for simple questions.
Now, while it in some ways has that same ability, is more than the simple question and answer system it once was. It is now the closest we have to a portal door which can reach an endless amount of doors. We’re we’re compelled to see what’s behind each and every one of them, because, why not?
There are both good and bad uses to these devices, and their abilities to be sure. The issue is what they’re often maxed out on is not simple convenience, and instead an endless amount of time wasting activity.
The pull of our internet connecting tools is stronger than quick sand, stronger the gravity of depth in Gehenna itself. The name for the pit of the spirit, and also the mindstate.
The power of them to pull us in and make us use them, is much like falling into that very pit.
For the majority of us, once in this pit, it’s then extremely difficult to get ourselves out.
This is the problem. We can further recognize the problem immediately upon our waking, and scanning our immediate environment for the nearest wireless-connected device. The need to to connect ourselves immediately, and see that next new thing.
As they’ve become ordinary items in our lives, so has it become ordinary that we use- and also that they suck up copious amounts of our time. So much of our time that while simply being in their proximity, we cannot help but be tempted by them.
We live in the time where we can sit and imagine, then in the next moment find out whether or not we can find something that matches that exact thought.
This would have been amazing for ancient peoples for hear. Yet in that same light, they would not be so foolish than to understand the danger that lies in that, especially when brought about with zero limitations besides those placed on by the user himself.
Which brings another point, what are those limits, and how do we go about placing them, and better yet go about the consistent enforcing of them?
Without severe personal control, for most this is completely impossible.
What brings about this control even? And what informs where the controls should lie?
There are some different answers to this, but the majority of the most consistent are only found in specific lifestyles.
These lifestyles are those with limitation informed and placed upon its practitioners by those specific religions. Lifestyles where there’s a grand order of alignment, where aligning yourself in the direction of what’s higher implores that you severely limit these types of influences.
As it’s often said: no man can worship gods. This explicitly means that an obsession which rivals God is a battle that the majority are without the strength to add proper balance too.
We will most definitely lose ourselves when it comes to fighting against our compulsions while seeking God, when we mistakenly allow them enough sway to cause us to.
Our instincts, when given full reign, easily overpower our desire for a fuller spirituality. The eye follows what it sees, but the mind needs improving to follow what the eye can’t see.
There’s even danger in using internet connected devices for tools of our spirituality. There’s always the sway in switch back and forth between apps, checking our social following for ‘just a sec’. Where then those mere seconds somehow inevitably become several minutes.
We have to learn to limit ourselves, but it’s hard to implore limitations on ourselves when we live in a world where we’re free to do anything and everything without a limit.
A stringent practice is required.
One that in itself requires constant reminder simply because the pull of the distraction in devices is so strong.
Although it’s not to say this is purely our own faults, this because they’re designed to be exactly that. They’re designed to be addicting and the more we engage with them, the more it alters our mental processes itself.
Our body should be the tool to connect with the divine. Something used to reach and grasp the hand of God, but we’re so practiced in using it as an item to be used by other forces. Mainly the forces of our own pleasure and addictive curiosity alone. This is the real tragedy.
We need mindfulness in our own action to overcome this. To overcome being beings ruled purely by our compultion, and to another extent our emotion.
To do this you need to practice a mindfulness that reorients you. One that takes time out from the day to implore a consciousness of mind, speaking to say if you’re not already gifted with the ability to do this automatically, as some of us are.
Timers can help, but also notes around the house- whatever it takes to remind us to align with the importance above our simple desire, and not be completely ruled by them.
The danger in a world of devices, even when used in the religious sense, is they push us to be teetering over a metaphysical pit. One wrong move made subconsciously, would lead us to plunge right within that pit.
Once in that pit, it consumes all of us, so much that we can’t even imagine a way out- if we indeed even think of getting out at all.
Mindfulness in better practice is the one thing that can lead us from the trap. Practicing this mindfulness with consistency is key.
Continuous using of your body as a tool, or better as a piece- a spark of the divine, and not as a item for time-wasting pleasure seeking is a good start.
The intention to not be a slave to your body, to not get trapped within the void of devices is paramount to improvement- it’s essential to stop the addiction itself.
That intention is all the spark it takes.
Within this spark can be birthed a flame. A flame to change our direction from the trappings of the consumer programs of this world, and set us off right to go forth in the direction of the divine we’re called to be.
May we all become better than we were yesterday, with much practice and intension.
The fight is never easy, but the fight can be won with a little faith and perseverance.
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