Indulgence.
Indulgence is often seen as a bad word in our society. Like, indulgence equates with laziness, sloth, obesity, and lack of restraint. We are told to save, plan for the future. Think about the next step and indulgence is about the now. So for me indulgence is not a bad word it is a symbol, a symbol of doing what feels good. Yes, I plan for the future, yes I save for the future but I try to find the happiness in the now because who knows if we will be given a chance for a future and do I want to be miserable in the only time I am guaranteed for the possibility of something else.
One of the things I have taken from the teachings of Buddha and my readings of physics is that there is no past and there is no future, they DO NOT EXIST they are delusions our minds create to give continuity to our existence. But what is the evidence of the past, what is the evidence of the future? Every moment of the past was at one point now, and every moment of the future, if it comes, will be now. Everything is simultaneous because every moment is past, present, and future in one. There is only that moment of now. Nothing else. So why not feel good within that singular moment? I know there are people who take this out of context and same I'm promoting "bad" behavior but I'm not while I say do what feels good I also say that what feels good should not harm other living things (whether they be other people, animals, plants). I know that sounds weird and you are probably left wondering what does a person who feels like that eat? The answer for me is everything, I still eat meat and all forms of plant life I've been toying with quitting dairy because it's a bizarre practice we humans have, if you look at it objectively, of drinking another animals milk and drinking any milk well past infancy. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. Do what feels good but don't bring unwarranted pain, misery, or suffering on another life. That's how I try and live my life and that is my "justification" for all my little indulgences.
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