The hungry Ghost

 

The hungry ghost is an entity that overtakes a person mind to manipulate the insatiable desire, hunger, or thirst for the ultimate illusion of achievement.

In a modern world of success driven manipulation and destruction the hungry Ghost is very much alive, driven by greed and false beliefs that are based on values by status of society.

The philosophies of karma and its state of rebirth, where poor desires are the metaphor for the struggle of emptiness and the inability of contentment are the emotional depth for constant craving and the inability forever being satisfied, is the issue.  

The addictive behavior and core concept is an unending need for instant satisfaction, whether its food, wealth, or approval to find fulfillment is the golden Goose for the Medias of the world.

The hungry ghost awakens in a person compulsively actions to seek a substance or behavior to fill a void, only to find it never truly satisfies.

It indicates psychological and spiritual emptiness and the lack to control the impulsive connection to the present moment.

The disconnection from the abundance of the presents is very applicable here, where the digestion to appreciate the beauty of life gets replaced with showmanship. It represents the emotional and psychological state of someone who is constantly longing for the illusion of the future.  

The hungry Ghost in Buddhist terms is the realm just before hell and metaphorically, this realm depicts addiction in all its forms.

Those are the needy satisfactions of temporary infatuation and compulsive engrained life-pattern that run by addictive cycles whether it’s commercial attractions, sexual attention, social prestige or workaholics.

The karma of once thoughts, from one moment to the next leads to the reincarnation of the compulsive mind or the realms of obsessive thinking and the living hell. 

Whereas in the realm of the Buddha it is compassion and a peaceful sphere with grateful thoughts and its pleasure, the workings order.

The stepping stones towards hell are plastered with fears where people get stuck in the realm of the hungry Ghost with another betting to refuse once responsibilities to act in dignity to face the music in hell, which is the same song over and over.

As hell is only a metaphor of ignorance and its empty feelings of missing love, it is the realm of denial and escape in repetitive actions. 

In movies and commercials the world celebrates workaholics, sex-appeal and shopping for the feel good about the self, compulsive wasting money for status which is an addictive form of bliss-seeking.

Even for spirituality there are too many casinos for blessings and emotional retreats that promise every spoil.

All for to engage in these behaviors to soothe once pain, instead of confronting the truth and once escape.

The rational logic behind those habits to hide the great pain to have an empire of pleasure, self-gratification, and distraction is the song of the fat lady on the Titanic before it’s all over.

The icy waters of ignorance that consume the body and the mind are the greatest addiction of all times. The safety west that protects from drowning from once own culpability does not work in the dark waters of emotions, denying the self. 

As long the individual consciousness is denying the act of compulsive egocentric filling of empty pleasures one will never find true satisfaction and lasting peace.

We are all surrounded by precious abundance which most people are not aware of in plain sight, because one just accepts the script that is handed down from once society on the daily base by Medias.

Spiritual traditions understand this painful predicament with the cure of self-knowledge to get in touch to once heart and soul.

The kingdom within is the kingdom of love which show us the abundance that is waiting for to establish the emotional maturity that truly satisfies the core of every being and lets the hungry Ghost starve to death once and for all.

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