We at first think gluttony has all to do with eating and drinking excess food. It does but that is only the surface...
Then we later see that it is also about taking advantage of as many opportunities 'to have' as possible.
If those opportunities are free or easy to come by, gluttony finds itself revealing in paradise.
However, the deeper aspect of gluttony is about consuming, absorbing, condensing and sliding downwards.
The opposite of gluttony is to absorb, transform and lift up. Gluttony is not a force that transcends or lifts one up to higher levels.
It is actually the factor within us that keep us eating the impressions of any ego and making that heavier and stronger.
The factor of gluttony feeds any ego. As any ego in us gets stronger and heavier our overall level of the Being and consciousness slides down.
This is really why it is a deadly sin.
A significant step in dissolving the physical surface level of gluttony is to transcend the psychology of food. Which results in looking at food differently. That is, not as something to do with sensations of comfort but as a source of energy.
To absorb more energy than we can use creates unbalance and heaviness and the sensations of heaviness are not worth compromising our health.
The same applies with the ego and its impressions. We must work to transcend their food and the sensations they bring.
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