Addiction

My view seems to be pretty much the opposite of the view of Jac O'Keeffe. For me, there is no mind-body split. Mind-body is a unity, a continuum. I don't see mind as the boss in charge of body and using body for its own purposes. There was a time that I thought mind and body were real and separate and the two of them together made 'I'. That changed, and I awoke to seeing 'I' as real and as the only real. For me, 'I' is not ego or personality. 'I' is real and is essence, and mind-body is 'I' in form, is an experience of'I'. If anything exists in imagination, it is mind and body, not 'I'. Mind-body is what gets addicted. I agree that nothing outside of 'I' can make 'I' feel happy or whole. I'm not beyond the 'I' story; I am beyond the story of mind and body being two separate entities that comprise 'I', and beyond seeing 'I' as imagination. For me, 'I' is all that really is, and mind-body comes and goes.