Why do you say 'It's okay'?🔗

All your attraction towards pleasure is nothing but an incompletion in your senses. When you see a person or object or situation which is going to give you pleasure, a kind of an incompletion wakes up in your bio-memory which pulls you towards choosing that pleasure. For example, when you decide to have a drink or eat meat, even after you know it is wrong and inauthentic, the incompletion in your tongue wakes up.

Desire is nothing but this incompletion in your bio-memory, which is a result of some incomplete experience in the past, where you have tried to enjoy that pleasure but were not fulfilled in it. You have not completed with the visualization of that food, with the taste in your tongue, the mood it gives you after you eat, with the touch of it in your hand. It leaves incomplete bio-memories in you. Those incomplete bio-memories are responsible for your choosing inauthenticity.

Tell me, why do you choose to eat pizza, even when you know that it is not the healthiest food for you? Because of the incompletion in the eye, in the tongue, in the touch, in the smell. The incompletion in your senses make you blind to goodness, and you choose pleasure instead.

Because you are still carrying incompletion in your bio-memory, the danger of inauthenticity always exists in you. Nothing is wrong with pizza - but you choosing pizza for the wrong reasons is inauthentic.

Every moment, life presents both choices before you - the authentic and the inauthentic. It is your responsibility to make a conscious choice.

• 1) Make a list of the small and big temptations which follow you like a shadow.
• 2) Name the temptations you easily gave in to; also name those you could effortlessly win over.
• 3) What exactly is stopping you from winning over a particular temptation? Write it down in a few lines.