Things That Cloud the Mind
Mental clarity is wonderful. It's when you are aware of what is going on around you, without any feeling obscuring your perception of the truth. Certain activities, due to their nature, do not support such mental clarity, and instead cloud the mind. Here are some of them:
- Staying awake for too long
- Sleeping too late in the day
- Overeating
- Looking at pornography
- Steaming hot showers
- Aversion towards a person, object, or experience
- Alcohol, and many other drugs
- Lusting after the human body
- Anger
- Greed
- Earning money for the sake of earning money
- Social media
- Checking your phone many times a day out of boredom
- Masturbation
- Most entertainments
- News
- Tabloids
- Telling lies