Fancy and imagination are pleasurable and deceptive and they must be wholly banished. Every form of myth, fancy and imagination must be understood and this very understanding deprives them of their significance.
Every form of imagination and fancy must be understood in its totality in order to deprive them of their power to influence. This I think is the quickest and easiest way to overcome all sorts of addictions, for, addiction is nothing but a state of mind that is so fanciful that your body is ordered by the mind itself to take it to those locations that thrive only in a brain that is afflicted by addictions. Once you understand the imagination, fantasy, be it alcohol, drugs, cigarette smoking, wanton desire, in their totality, once you understand that the lands they seem to take you to are completely falsified and never have a place for themselves in reality, then and only then you will able to ignore them. Ignoring these calls of mind makes the mind a slave, albeit, gradually. Attending these calls of mind empowers it and makes you its slave thereby depriving you of the meaning of being alive.
