For most of us, instinct run amok has hijacked our better nature. Greed, especially, is a flame before which we are moths. We ever flutter towards it, and the closer we get the more we are burned. As Nisargadatta noted, "the state of craving for anything blocks all deeper experience." To become content and at peace, we must first recognize the other "content," the noun, the "substance" of our sensory and cognitive experience. Our body-mind, self-identified as "I," is not who or what we really are. Manifestation, including our misidentified personal selves, is just a speck in the eye of the Unmanifest, and only when that eye turns its gaze upon itself will we experience true contentment and peace.
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