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And therin lies the problem. Much easier to debate concepts until your bones are brittle and nothing's been accomplished, than to work toward grasping them on a level that goes deeper than what you can view with even the most powerful atomic microscope.
And yes, you're right - the mind does love to complicate things to the point of throwing walls up around the truth. Great example is Vipassana meditation, which I mentioned earlier. The basis for this particular kind of meditation is to do away with preferences - non-duality, all things being equal, however you wish to phrase it. And yet time and time again, I've watched students go up before the course teacher and exclaim, "This morning my meditation was so good! I was so happy and blissful, and then when I sat this afternoon, I had a horrible meditation, so much pain and discomfort." Even though it's gently drilled into their heads over and over that regardless of pain or bliss there is no good or bad meditation, that it simply is, the concept is too simple for their cluttered and complicated minds to grasp and they will continue to protest to the contrary until they are blue in the face.
So yes, some things just are that simple, and both Mate and Mackler have come to the same conclusion about the abuse/addiction connection through years of careful observation of others as well as deep, honest introspection into their own condition. Can you say you have the same under your belt to back up your own conclusions, or are you just speaking off the top of your head, time and time again?
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