Status Updates From The Dharma of Fashion: A Bu...

addictive cycles are not ab the objects (shoes, food, cigs), but a desire to conceal negative feelings from our awareness.

must learn how to tolerate negative affect, not conceal it. mindfulness creates a safe place for these feelings

Balanced ascetism if often misunderstood, seen as a type of self-punishment or denial. It’s actually a search for true joy and happiness by putting aside, where possible, what we don’t need especially when we’ve become addicted or dependent.

our culture celebrates youth, beauty, success, and a type of homogenized happiness based on accumulation of greed. we hide the elderly in assisted-living facilities and nursing homes, the sick in hospitals. The dead are whisked away and dressed up to look like they’re sleeping and the poor are ghettoized.

two types of suffering
1. those we can not control (dying, aging, sickness)
2. self centered thought, why me?? escapist ideation. addiction to distractions.