Dealing with self-destructive tendencies

Acharya Prashant
4 min readApr 19, 2020

If you have self-destructive tendencies and you create troubles and ruin all goodness and you want to learn care, self love and stability, then you have to let your self destructive tendencies come to a climax. If tendencies are indeed self destructive then why aren’t they destroying the self?

Are they self destructive or self preserving? You are continuing to be who you are, where is the self destruction? In the name of self destruction you are only preserving yourself. That’s what you value- the old self, and that is preserving itself. The only ones you actually want to destroy are those who are trying to help you by destroying you.

You do not want destroy yourself, you want to destroy the entire system that can liberate you, help you. That liberation, that help you take as hindrance, so you want to destroy it.

You are an enemy of the very system that is your only hope, but it is me on this side who can say that there is something or somebody trying to help you. In your own eyes that help is unsolicited. Unsolicited, unwanted and worthy of resistance. Self destructive behavior is not something that you can call your behavior as.

Please see that in your own vision your behavior is not self destructive at all, it is self preserving. It is a behavior that helps the self remain and continue and…

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