I need help i am addicted to gambling and i have totally screwed myself !!!!?

i know iknow just quit but my whole check is gone and my bills are due i have really hit rock bottom and i am lost. i think this is the scariest place to be cause there are only so many ways out and i am just so far gone i don't have the energy to fight any morei know my addiction makes me selfish and i really do not want to be i just don't know where to go any more

We are a society of addicts of some kind, whether it is tobacco, alcohol, drugs, shopping, bigger-better homes, new cars every year, credit cards, food, sex, wanting money, day trading, cosmetic surguries, and on and on and on. The only way one can really cure themselves is to just decide "THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT ANYMORE" and go from there. You can seek professional help but if the disire is not there to quit, it will be of no benefit to you. I, too, like to gamble but find that I can talk myself out of it if I keep telling myself no no no no no. After enough no's, I have no desire to go. Good luck to you! Talk to someone that you trust, have a good cry, and make up your mind that there is more to life than throwing your money away. It will amaze you how easy it is to catch up if you set your mind to it. Gambling is a no win situation! If people could really win and keep it, there would be no casinos, lotteries, race tracks.

look for gambling annon in your area if you can not find one go to narcotics anon or aa as a first start they can help network for you maybe. Gambling is addiction and you need to cure the addiction

Each fragment of your mind wants to become the most powerful one. There is constant inner politics. You cannot find bliss in this constant inner war.

The mind is a chooser 鈥?it always chooses something against something else. It creates opposition, it creates contradiction in life. It creates extremes, and through extremes there is a constant inner war, a civil war. Don't choose, remain choiceless.

If you repress sex you will be in a constant war, and you can never win. Failure is absolutely certain because the more you fight with sex, the more you give energy to it. The same is the case with anger, jealousy, greed. Fighting is not the way of wisdom; it is the fool's path. The stupid and the mediocre fight. The intelligent ones transform; they absorb.

It is man's freedom to choose. We can live an integrated life, we can become an organic unity 鈥?that's the whole purpose of meditation. Or we can remain a crowd 鈥?many minds, many fragments, no unity. When there are many minds there is conflict, discord, a constant civil war. When you are at war within yourself you are at war with existence too; as within, so without.

Deep down you are one person, pretending on the surface to be somebody else. There is a constant conflict between the real and the false. The false is appreciated by society, valued, respected, and the real is condemned. You have to learn ways to be two persons; you have to be constantly on guard. That creates hypocrisy, and you cannot forgive yourself; you feel guilty.

I don't want the peace of the cemetery. All the graves are silent 鈥?no fight, no struggle, no quarrel. I want the peace of a garden in the early morning when birds are singing, flowers are opening, the sun is rising. There is music in it; it is not without sound. There are sounds, but the sounds and the silences together create peace.

Rejection is suppressive; it is cutting your intrinsic parts>>

Rejection is suppressive; it is cutting your intrinsic parts. It leaves you bleeding; it leaves you half-alive; it leaves you lukewarm. It takes all your energy away from you, and it creates a conflict and inner war.

My understanding about peacefulness is that it is not a question of being peaceful with anybody. The basic question is being at peace with yourself. Out of that, peace arises for everybody.

Where is the devil? It is some condemned part of you. You cannot cut it out because it is so deeply a part of you that there is no possibility of separating it from your self. You can go on fighting, but you will never win. You cannot fight against the devil, you can only play with him. That's what I am teaching you here: be playful, non-serious.

Man has been conditioned always to be in conflict: the body is fighting with the mind, the mind is fighting with the body. The whole past of humanity has been a constant conditioning to make man a split personality; and it has succeeded.

Peace is not a political strategy. Two parties peaceful in themselves cannot create any hostility. There is no question of being peaceful with somebody. The basic question is being peaceful.

Society is violent, politics is violent, nations are violent. The state is violent, the church is violent, because they are political games. Even religion is political. Every religion is trying to defeat other religions. There is a constant struggle going on, a cold war. How long can you go on fighting a cold war? Sooner or later it becomes heated, then a hot war erupts.

Society needs soldiers, violent people, murderous people; and a blissful person cannot be that. He would rather die himself than kill anybody. He would be ready to die willingly because he has tasted something of immortality, so he does not care about death. But he will not destroy anything.

Man has been going through three kinds of wars. One is with nature, another is with other people, and the third is with himself. The first war has become science: the war with nature. The second war has become politics: the war with other people. And the third war, unfortunately, has become religion: the war with yourself.

Courtesy Osho International Foundation/www.osho.com

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