How Lust Instills Weakness

So if I deal with my lust by making it

go away, what does that train my brain

to do? That trains my brain that when

I'm hungry, I got to eat something. So

then what happens is I start to spoil

myself. My capacity to tolerate

distress, tolerate internal

uncomfortable states goes down. So I

don't know if you all have ever known

someone who can't handle being hungry.

They get really, really cranky. They

start complaining a lot or they can't

tolerate a room that's too hot or a room

that's too cold. They're like giant

babies. their capacity to tolerate

internal discomfort is very low. So if

we're not careful, we will see a lot of

lust that is evoked, right, by people

who are intentionally competing with

each other on the internet to evoke the

most lust and they figure out how to

evoke it in the strongest way. That lust

then enters us and how do we respond to

that lust? Do we give into it? Do we

have to make it go away by satisfying

it? Because whatever you feed will