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Therefore I will redefine craving as: Attraction to a scenario that you are consciously evaluating as not worth to pursuit.

Ahh, this is interesting. With this definition I see craving as something worth investigating. From your own perspective, maybe your conscious evaluation is what needs changed, or maybe it's just right and one should then consider attenuating the draw so that one's attractions fall in line with one's conscious evaluation(s). I see craving, with this definition, as at least potentially problematic and in practical terms I think I can say craving thus defined is probably a problem, and one should consider attenuation strategies to lower the level of attraction.

This is a tricky issue, because one's ability to make holistic conscious evaluation is also something one has to train, imo.

In an esoteric sense, deep down at the core of your own perspective, I claim that you're already secretly omniscient, so this training is kind of half-real and half-illusionary, more like a return back to your original omniscience than true training in a conventional sense, so it's more like re-training then maybe.

This is where one needs to value and develop wisdom at all times, because what is skillful and what isn't depends on one's perspective. I am not saying anything goes here. But what works and what doesn't is something each perspective has to deeply know intimately on their own terms. This is why while it's great to talk like this, and I hope we can keep talking, there is no replacement for contemplation in solitude.

Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2018-08-10 09:21:01 (e3x218m)