Q: Master, you ask us not to suppress our natural passions. But is it right to indulge these passions?🔗

This question has specific relevance when one is trying to choose between what you think is the right path and what you feel is the wrong path.

There are many who are conditioned to believe that striving for anything material such as wealth or name and fame is not spiritual. They have this false notion that to be spiritual, one must give up everything material. So when you chose to move away from the material path in search of what you think is spirituality, it is inevitable that whatever you are trying to renounce will come up in front of you with renewed vigor. Then the question arises: 'Do I suppress or indulge?'

On this path when you try to choose between one and the other, you will time and again come across apparent

Dharmic Principles:

dualities: good and bad, false and true, attachment and aversion, suppression and indulgence. In fact, raging inside your being is this constant conflict of opposites. Whenever a duality asserts itself, remember this rule of thumb: Existence is non-dual. Opposites do not exist. To cling to either suppression or indulgence is a sign of ignorance.

After all, suppression is nothing but a reaction to indulgence. What is essential is the awareness of one's own tendencies. Recognize anger, recognize jealousy, be aware of lust and greed. Neither give in to these emotions nor try to suppress them.

Simply attempt to know them for what they are. Keep your distance, and view your emotions as if they were strangers. You will be surprised to find that without your support, they cannot exist. They simply drop away! This may not make much sense to you when it is just someone else's experience - but through constant practice you will experience the truth for yourself.

It is only this awareness that can awaken self-knowledge, and free you of these concepts of indulgence or suppression, and of all dualities!