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Temptations are Duality - (807)

Introduction

Duality is a very large conditioner and nearly everything except our consciousness is conditioned by duality or conditioned by virtue of the opposites.


Temptation to Bring Out Contradictions

Temptation is seated in duality. It is like temptations are there to bring out your inner contradictions so that you unify yourself, that is unify yourself in the ego or in the Being. We are really only tempted when we are fighting or struggling between the two opposites of the duality within the temptation. Wherever there is duality the re immediately is relativity. For someone a temptation is not at all a temptation because they just naturally chose the ego without a second’s thought and some may chose the Being or the essence without a second thought.


Use Duality

We can use duality to our advantage when we face temptation. If we see all that we will acquire or experience when we pass a temptation we see temptation as a chance to win something new. The big key is to look upon what we will gain with an emotion greater than the emotion inherent in the temptation. The big key or pivotal point is the emotion.

It has been said that in a battle between mind and emotion, emotion has the tendency to win.

To create emotion we have to go over and over the benefits of wining in our mind, we need to go over and over it with our intellect until it enters our emotion. That is how understanding or consciousness moves in our centres. IT starts in our intellect then with repletion it filters down into the emotion and then a more complete level of comprehension is acquired. Then after entering the emotion it enters the motor centre and then it enters the consciousness, and later it enters or fuses with the understanding and wisdom or consciousness of the parts of the Being.


Defeating Temptation Gives You Your Future Back

When we fail or triumph over a temptation we change our life. We either delay the progressions of our life’s events or path’s events or our life and path takes a different course.

When we pass temptations we create our future and vice versa.


Conclusion

Temptation is a battle of light and darkness, temptation is needed to bring out our contradictions so to give us the chance to unify either in light or in darkness. Light is happiness and darkness is bitterness.

Emotion is very important in triumphing over temptation, because we always act by virtue of emotion. The whole trick is to move emotion in favour of triumph.


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