Instinctive Limit - (4867)

What is the instinctive limit?

We can see this from different angles. One angle is looking at it from the point of view of the instinctive centre and the psychological "I".

The heaviest side of any vice or psychological defect is the instinctive side. Anger has an instinctive side, greed does, as does gluttony and lust, not to mention fear, and it is this side that is very intense.

A strong defect pushes right to the limit of the instinctive centre. When that instinctive limit is reached something happens that the ego backs down. 

For example, we may drink or eat until we feel sick and then something happens within us, like a kind of an inner agreement or handshake and then the ego of gluttony calms down and goes and we don't feel like drinking or eating anymore.

This is either because the ego is programmed to be satisfied once this instinctive limit is reached or either the consciousness in the instinctive centre dispels the ego. Maybe it is both factors at work which work together to make the ego go.

Some people have slighter instinctive limits than others while others have a greater instinctive limit.

The instinctive limit that we have is in many ways due to our level of the Being and our history of training or 'mistraining' the instinctive centre.

There could also be other factors as well that contribute to making our instinctive limit the way that it is.  One such factor could be the amount of available energy that we have and the amount of cosmic vital values or bobbyn kandel nochs that we have in our human machine.

Karma does something mysterious with our instinctive limit. IT increases it so that we can stay paying our karma...

The practical conclusion to this post is: 1.) to know our instinctive limit, 2.) work to not approach it and 3.) work to understand why it is the way it is and then work to modify it by raising our level of the Being.

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