The Illusion of Feel-good Dharma

Why you & the culture can’t detox.

The Illusion of Feel-Good Dharma

Most people who seek spiritual “enlightenment” are only seeking feel-good dharma.

They want improvements, but these improvements are defined by a certain already limited perception, based in a colonial ideology that rewards addiction and the hedonic treadmill.

The thing about dharma is that there’s no feel-good dharma… there’s only dharma. It exists beyond your preferences.

Karma is karma. All karma has trapped or blocked energy, which is to say, creates a closed-off position. Knots take a lot of energy to maintain. Relaxation is the key to unraveling the knots of karma, but this also means relaxing while experiencing what we don’t prefer as a means of dharma. To be able to wake up in the nightmare, but not change or solve or fix or heal the nightmare.

Just to become relaxed within the environment of all the co-factors and karmas and historical legacies that make up the nightmare.

No reward except this basic relaxing.

This means no feel-good preference.

So all the people who say they practice, but only ever desire optimization and progression and improvement and gaining advantage are not actually practicing much of anything at all.

Just practicing addiction and the hedonic treadmill. The wheel of samsara. Practice means not just re-naming the already ingrained momentum.

Can you see this in you?

This is the first backwards step.