Although they say there are more insidious addictions for which the saying goes: “Once an addict, always an addict”.

In my opinion, this is not the case for those of us who at the foot of the Master have internalized a bit of his sense of humour in deconstructing things, as the most powerful marketing targeting the human being: God.

I do not know many sannyasins who are back to the drug, but no one who has come back to church.

https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/08/30/once-an-addict-always-an-addict/

Ciao,

VF

P.S:
As I have said at other times, by quoting Fromm there is “freedom from” and “freedom for”… Comparing nirvana to an addiction, as a metaphor, does not work, it is asymmetric.

In fact, usually one throws a stone when there is a diamond, not the opposite. However, if the nirvana is like an addiction, before going back to church my samsara (wandering) will have very different sympathies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hw1uVfeByg

(The band complains, maybe about the thermal state, some blasphemy … mimicking the addicted ones, about the honey for the voice that is going to end)

“I wander at night with lost souls
Yes of the family I am the rebel
You give me the soul and I’ll send you to the stars
And paradise is a crazy lie
All life is a fat lie
Yup!
Hard life is a big deal, yes
But sometimes a transgression is a necessity
Whoever is good, for me it’s bad!
And I’m an animal and it is!
All history is a big lie
All the lifes, first mine
Ah, mamamia (mamma mia / oh mother, mine) el Diablo!
Ah, Ariba ariba el Diablo!
Ah, mamamia el Diablo!
666
Shoot the snake of the first apple, eh, el Diablo
That steals strength to who condemned him, eh, el Diablo
And with the music I change my skin, eh, el Diablo
But paradise is a crazy lie
All the lifes, first mine
Ah, mamamia el Diablo
Ah, ariba ariba el Diablo
Ah, (mamamamamama) mamamama mia el Diablo
Ah, his holiness el Diablo!
666″.

For example, people at AA and NA meetings talk endlessly about the things they are trying to stay off. Yet, surely,to be really free of it, it`s better not to even have to talk about the stuff,let alone be tempted by it, isn`t it?

I suspect that the same may be true of nirvana, otherwise the enlightened ones would all be sitting around in a circle chatting away about samasara in an attempt not to relapse into it!

I don’t know some living being who is so.