You must know, you have to devise a careful plan to defeat addiction; a precise, calculated plan, with no turning backwards, and most importantly it must be a do-able plan, thus this plan is nothing less than a treasure map.
I was thinking about what he said. Get ready we must get into the first town (first valley), he said.
Gladly, I’m deeply eager, but I’m not in a good mood, and my horse can’t walk, we shall walk slowly, I said.
The treatment is like this exactly, we must move slowly and gradually, he said.
We entered the city.
Several villages with different names were in the city, we reached the first village and the guide said: village of thoughts!!
What made me so surprised was that the people of this village were making a fence around themselves; it was like they were prisoners of themselves!!
What is the story of these people, I’m confused I said.
Let me give you some information about “thoughts” then you will realize yourself, guide said.
Every moment you are thinking about something, and when you decide to think about a topic, suddenly other thoughts get into your mind and after awhile you realize that the only thing that you are doing is thinking about everything whit no results at all, thus you are wasting your energy in order to get nothing, he said.
Therefore in order for all human beings to find themselves they need to ponder deeply and forces of inspiration, revival and motion also exist. In other words everything is like a blank sheet of drawing paper, and then little by little the image begins to appear and from its meaning appear the beautiful, ugly, good and bad.
“Therefore, one must first contemplate.”
He continued: for instance now you have decided to move from darkness to light, you are at the beginning of your journey, your first priority must be this journey, you shouldn’t think about other things such as getting married, or traveling to other cities, gaining more money or etc, thoughts are like a highway which cars are moving in it, you must get into the treatment car and move forgetting other cars for now, he said.
Maybe we imagine that we have always been contemplating, but drug addiction and its progress shows that we haven’t been thinking right and have continued our life without the right attitude; and have lost or are losing all material and spiritual assets that we have. He said.
Let’s rest a bit, he said.
Don’t forget the time and your horse medicine, guide said.
What did you say, what medicine, I said.
He laughed and continued: the opium will be your horse medicine and in specified time you must give this medicine to your horse with specified amount which I will tell you.
He continued:
Remember that, this medicine (opium) is the most complete and less dangerous medicine in order to rebalance your X system which I told you before.
My eyes where heavy, I felt like sleeping, so I told him could we nap here for a while?
He said: not at all, from now on you will sleep at nights only; this will help you in your treatment process.
Written by: Saeed
Translated by: Ehsan Ranjbar