In this video, master Nisargan from Espaço Presença answers a question from one of his followers about how meditation can or can't help a person to get rid of any addiction, specifically pornography addiction.
For Nisargan, meditation helps in overcoming addiction, but it is interesting for people to know that meditation is a practice, and that it is for life. It gives us an awakened awareness, attention and a clear perception of what is happening around us.
The power of meditation is precisely this: to increase awareness of external and internal reality, in order to be more aware of our reactions, emotions, thoughts and our potential. Increasing this awareness has direct application in any life situations, including addictions, specifically pornography addiction.
Meditation only helps to dissolve addiction when a person has a clear awareness of the negative consequences of this practice. If the individual begins to justify himself, he will not achieve this awareness, and will cover up and seek excuses for what is, in fact, addiction - but which he does not even consider it to be.
Meditation makes us pay more attention to what we perceive and less attention to what we think. We think a lot more than we realize, and meditation reverses this process.
A person who does not meditate believes much more in his own mind, in his own excuses, in his own arguments, than a person who meditates.
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A meditator's job is to become aware of his mind: most of the stuff that goes on in our mind is rubbish, it's disturbing, and it's unnecessary.
When the meditator notices a thought that gets in the way of his perception, he simply hits the “off” button and turns his attention to what is happening in the present moment, both externally and internally.
By staying present, after pressing the off button, he is disqualifying that thought, there is no room to fight, nor to defend an idea tooth and nail, because everything is thought.
If the meditator fights the thought, he can see beyond the excuses, starting to perceive the impact of certain actions, noticing things that normally he would not notice if he didn't practice this training in presence, in meditation.
Check out the master's explanation in full. In the video he clarifies how meditation can help overcome pornography addiction (and other addictions too).
