Worldly Influences

The ways to be drawn in by influences are endless, but understand the draw comes from your own mind and even though your conditioning provides the worldly triggers, you alone attach to them…

If you’re practicing to live a spiritual life but you don’t know your own mind, it’s like going to the gym, but not working out in a beneficial way; your results will be non existent. If you don’t notice your attachments, the whole point of any practice is missed. This is because of the draw of worldly influences makes looking inward difficult. There are so many influences that prevent looking inward from happening, but if it doesn’t happen you’ll remain in bondage to worldly influences. Influences are all they are because when there’s even the slightest of an opening to allow what’s within to be seen, your expansion begins.

The draw of worldly influences are very enticing. If they weren’t, the percentage of conscious and unconscious beings would be reversed, but it’s not this way because the draw of worldly influences are in control. This draw is only real to a degree. There’s no denying they’re there, but they’re in control because there’s a fictitious belief they are needed. We alone are the creators of this, and if one doesn’t become familiar with their own mind, the worldly influences will continue their control. Sadly there’s really no way around this…

Familiar Behavior

The familiar behavior of a Conditioned Mind can be devastating if it’s not understood. The familiar behavior manifests in many ways. When the mind quiets it falls away; that’s when life truly begins…

The reason why it’s so difficult to change is because the mind defaults to familiar behavior; to the point of its own suffering. The conditioning must be changed if the familiar behavior is to be changed. If this isn’t identified the behavior repeats over and over, that is until the necessary practice is cultivated to stop this. If nothing changes nothing changes. If the conditioning is changed the familiar behavior becomes different. You don’t change the behavior because it’s a by product of the conditioning. When there’s quietness instead of conditioning there won’t be any familiar behavior associated with the conditioning.

This is immensely valuable in the understanding of familiar behavior. If quietness isn’t brought into your life, the familiar noise in the head will continue. You have been conditioned to behave in familiar ways, whether those ways are beneficial to yourself, others, the planet, and the Universe as a whole, depends on the base of your conditioning. The base is what determines the results of your decisions and how they affect the entire Universe. You may not think acting in a self-serving way affects the Universe, but it does. Energy is energy, never created or destroyed, simply transformed.

No act is isolated from itself, whether based in love, greed, hate, or delusion; it affects the whole. The real issue is getting to know how your familiar conditioning makes decisions for you. Change happens when this is realized; that’s when different behavior arises. Your own mind will fight you on this, it makes you think the unknown is not good, but it’s only a story because everything that is known today was once unknown. So learn to quiet the squirrel cage mind so the familiar behavior isn’t the automatic way to go. You’ll be amazed with the way life changes when you start to do things differently and act in ways that are conducive to love. It’s truly that simple, but because the Conditioned Mind likes to revert to familiar behavior, change is not easy…

Heart Center

Your center of being is in your heart, and what’s in your heart is determined by how opportunities are used to either fulfill self-serving desires or being an instrument of goodness that comes from the heart…

When a heart center presents itself to help a person to possibly reduce some of the suffering the Conditioned Mind produces, there’s an obligation to be a benefit to that person. Tread lightly though as the person can only take advantage of the opportunity if their heart is to awaken within them. If nothing happens nothing is lost, but what if something clicks and their view of their heart changes; their gain is the worlds gain.

Understand this, you cannot give away what you don’t have, so get it and give it so the world becomes a better place. As long as people are kept in the dark of a self-serving center, darkness rules, but when there’s awareness of the heart center you become a light. There is no greater reward than to be an instrument for goodness, a light in a world that has the shades pulled down. Those shades are what keeps people centered in ignorance (darkness). To watch a person change right before your eyes is amazing, but this will only happen if your center of being is of the heart…

Aware of Awareness

What leads to a peaceful life begins and ends in the present moment. You can have awareness you’re thinking about something in the past or future, but you can never actually be there…

When a practice that allows awareness is in place, it’s to allow the present moment to be experienced. Being aware of what’s actually happening as opposed to being pulled around by it or pushing it away and applying a label to what’s happening, is what will dictate the amount of peace there is in your life. Life is magical in its essence, but there’s nothing magical in one becoming aware of awareness. All roads that lead to a peaceful life begin and end in the present moment and an awareness practice will assist in this. 

Take a step and simply be aware of it, now take another, this is also an anchor as is the breath to the present. One cannot be aware of something in the past or future because it doesn’t exist. You can be aware that you’re thinking about something in the past or future, but you can never actually be there. Every step or breath can only be taken as it is happening. The more you become aware of this, the more anchored you become of being in the present moment as opposed to grasping for straws in the story of what’s going on between your ears. Be aware of reading this and just observe what arises. Just be with it, no pulling or pushing, just be aware of what’s happening. It’s in this space of awareness that you will find peace and this is because in this space peace is the only thing that’s there…

Energy Within

You can’t be different from your energy within because it comes from you so there’s no where for you or it to go. Love and you will be love because that’s the energy within…

Simply put, the energy within is the energy you will live by; you can’t be different from what is in you. This is a Universal Law that has to occur. It’s no different than pressing down on the gas pedal in your car, the car will go faster; it has to there’s no way around it. If the energy within is of hate, that will be your energy whether you want it to be or not. It will take you over, it’s how energy works. You can’t really show hate to someone and love another. That’s not happening, it can’t because as stated before the more you press down on the gas pedal, the faster the car will go. If you truly want a loving heart, learning to love all beings is a necessity. This simple but profound law isn’t really understood by many people; all one needs to do is look around. The energy within is your own energy so it becomes your responding action.

Nothing from the outside causes any emotion to arise. You may think it does, but that’s only because you don’t understand your own mind and how energy works. It’s really unfortunate because it’s not understood how any energy except love causes your own suffering. Although unloving energy may affect all of humanity to a degree, the effect it has on you is where most of the harm is. You can’t run away from your own energy because it comes from within you so there’s no where for you to hide. This is why acting in unloving ways constantly repeats itself because you can only be the energy that’s within Until there’s awareness of this, unloving action will be the focal point of your energy. Love and you will be love or not and that’s the energy you will be because you can’t be different than what is within…

2026 Present Moment

Life happens in between the plans that are made. Plans can be planned, but the results are not always in our control. A resolution to live in the present moment is a true resolution for life…

It is the start of a new year, but it isn’t time for resolutions or big expectations because that’s just the way the mind sets itself up to fail. Don’t say last year was a tough year, unless you want to carry that burden around with you. That’s up to you, but it won’t change anything. Life can only be lived in the present moment. It doesn’t mean there can’t be plans, but the actions can only be applied in the present moment regardless of what the future holds or what happened in the past.

Life is one continuous journey, the mind has been conditioned to believe somewhere other than the present is a better place. But here is where life occurs no matter what you’re doing or what resolutions are made. As you wait for the results of your resolutions to make your life complete, it’s literally passing you by. Life will never be any more complete than it is right now. This is something that needs to be realized if you’re to truly live your life and not wait for it to be perfect (only in your mind). You can enjoy the life you’re given instead of thinking it needs to be in some other way. Happy Present Moment 2026 my dear friends and please, live life as it arises in the present moment because it’s the only way life can be truly experienced…

Lies Exposed

Those who don’t understand their lies cannot know truth and therefore remain a slave to the lies. You needn’t have all the answers to know truth, you just need your lies exposed so you’re not enslaved by them…

Fifteen years ago I began developing a practice of quietness because I started understanding the lies of what it was to be a slave to the noise; I say “was” because in truth I am a slave no more. I know the poison of the lies of greed, hate, and delusion and have developed the discipline to not to allow them to control me to some degree. I know how living selfishly and being judgmental caused not only my suffering, but it caused suffering to those around me as well. Because this is known I use tools so I can live differently. If the lies weren’t exposed there wouldn’t be awareness of truth. 

The ultimate delusion is by the one who claims to know truth, but doesn’t even understand the lies, this is the place where the majority of people live. It isn’t arrogant to know the truth by understanding and not being controlled by the lies, but it is arrogant to claim to know truth. Many remain enslaved the to lies as it’s stated that there are different versions of truth and no one can know all truth or truth of another. It has been through my experience that I have discovered there aren’t different versions of truth, there are only versions of the lies; a lie is always a lie. When your lies are exposed, you will know truth, and another’s truth can also be known because another’s lies can be known, but this can only be known by knowing your own lies. Remember truth is not about having all the answers, it’s understanding the lies. The lies the world presents are the gateway to truth because they are the gateway of seeing the lies of greed, hate, and delusion, so it is possible to know truth, but only when the lies are exposed…

Created Problems

Through the way the mind becomes conditioned, problems are created so the mind has something to do, and because of this creating problems becomes constant…

The issue with having to constantly solve problems to arrange life to be a certain way is the problems are all created. Even if one makes up a story that life is exactly how you want it, the mind begins creating a new problem almost immediately. Life is continuous, it’s broken up into segments (created problems) by a mind that’s in a constant state of agitation. If this wasn’t true you would see life as complete and your mind wouldn’t constantly need life to be arranged to your liking. It isn’t because of anything right or wrong that makes the mind see things in this way, it’s because the mind has been trained to create problems so it’s only doing what it’s been trained to do.

The Conditioned Mind sees created problems all over the place. The shortest line in the store, politics, religion, work, diets, and on an on, all this is strictly done to create another problem; your mind tells you solving it will make life perfect. Let’s say everyday you create one new problem to solve, that would mean you create roughly 21,000 problems; this is done to constantly have life the way you think it should be. After all, nobody purposely gets in the longest line at the store, but if you did nothing would really change except for maybe not creating another problem…

No One Looking Integrity

No one looking integrity means what you do when no one is looking is the same as what you do when someone is watching, if this isn’t the level of one’s integrity, it’s because there’s a lack of self honesty…

One way to the purification of the mind and heart is to develop integrity. Here’s one definition of integrity “the quality of being honest” to me this is about self honesty because when I’m truly honest with me, there’s no way I can be dishonest with anyone else. I’ve learned a lot about self honesty in the last nine years and it’s something that eluded me for most of my life. Honesty isn’t about what I present to the world, it’s about what is done when no one is looking. The world is easily fooled because of the conditioning in place, but what does it matter if one gains the whole world, but loses themselves.

Integrity is a huge hurdle in breaking the chains of the Conditioned Mind, without it truth cannot be revealed. If I don’t know what blocks me from the purification of the mind and heart, the blocks remain. And without establishing what I call “no one is looking integrity” one remains stuck in their old habits because there’s no room for anything new. Certain things trigger certain thoughts and if those thoughts are attached to, it’s usually because one’s integrity has been compromised. Although there’s no right or wrong in this, it does make someone do things when no one is looking that they wouldn’t necessarily do if someone was watching; as always investigate this for yourself.

Only to yourself is honesty necessary because it’s only yourself that will keep you from the purification of your mind and heart. This self honestly is tied in with loving yourself; when you’re honest with yourself, you’re truly loving yourself because you’re making room for the mind to expand. This allows for the integrity to do what you do when no one is looking just as you do in front of others. Difficult yes, but only because “no one is looking integrity” isn’t the level of honesty that’s in place…

Noisy Mind Activity

Beneath the noisy mind activity there’s nothing but space. This is difficult to see because life isn’t about what you think it is. In fact it isn’t about anything you think it is, but it’s not seen because of trying to figure it out through noisy mind activity…

Round and round the mind goes and where it stops nobody knows. This is a perfect example of noisy mind activity that’s in place for most people. One thought after another, no space, no quietness, just the noise of thought manifesting itself. If you could just sit back in a space where the noise subsides, there’s a chance to truly see what many mystic’s spoke of. If you think you have an idea of what life is about, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that’s just noise. There are no answers to what life is about and the more noisy the existence, the more you will think you have life figured out. I’m not saying I know what life is about, but I do know what it isn’t about and it has nothing to do with what is seen through the noisy mind. The more you’re controlled by the noise the less life is truly experienced. Below the noisy mind activity is the only place where life is truly experienced. You can travel all around the world and make up the story of all the beauty around you, but it’s only a story conjured up to provide pleasure and store it as a memory to be used later. Beneath the surface no story is needed, no pleasure is needed, in fact nothing is needed because this is where true life exist. 

Think about it, your entire life is a noisy story until one day it ends. Every experience is taken with you as if it never occurred. They were thought to be needed so you could make sense of your life, but really they mean absolutely nothing because they’re all created from noisy mind activity. Buddha talked about of delusion, Jesus spoke of being in the world not of it, to me this is what they were talking about. If you remain trapped in noisy mind activity, you will remain in your suffering. Even those who think they understand this don’t because it’s not something to understand. Beneath the noisy mind activity there’s nothing but space, this is where the possibility arises of truly seeing what life is about. Why there’s difficulty in seeing this is because life isn’t about anything that the noisy mind thinks it is. In fact it’s about everything you think it isn’t and this is because of the trying to figure it out on through noisy mind activity…

Sparkle of Light

When you’re aware that all opinions are a made up story, love takes their place. This love is a sparkle of light and is always there, but it’s not experienced because of the conditioned opinions that block it…

Without opinions everyone would view life through the eyes of love which by the way is the sparkle of light of peace; because of opinions this sparkle of light isn’t seen. The view of opinions are made up by the energy of unconsciousness, this makes everything that happens in life seen through the conditioning of your opinions; through this view what is true is missed. This makes life about nothing real except for the opinions that are formed by the Conditioned Mind.

Being unaware of opinions are what makes the mind attach to thoughts and those attachments are the cause of what controls your life. What’s factual is this, life just happens, it’s not personal, it’s not about anything you think it is. It’s not about right, wrong, love, hate, good or bad, it‘s simply learning to understand your minds true nature of quietness and not being led around by your conditioned opinions; whatever they are. When there’s awareness of this you will truly love. A love that has always been there, but it’s never experienced because of your conditioned opinions not allowing you to see your sparkle of light…

Mind Potential

If you don’t take responsibility for the potential of your mind, there are plenty of influences that will do it for you. Whatever is thought about frequently becomes the potential of your mind…

Our minds are more like water than something solid. What happens is sometimes it gets frozen and becomes solid. Also water takes the shape of whatever container it’s in and that’s exactly what happens to an unconscious mind; in this case the container is whatever one attaches to. The key when it comes to the mind is to make sure it’s in a container that’s based in love. Water is influenced by many things, tides, wind, weather, and so on, the mind is also influenced by many things. When there’s awareness of this the mind is somewhat less influenced; it’s totally influenced when there isn’t awareness. The Conditioned Mind will say jump and you will jump, and depending on the conditioning you may even ask how high. If you don’t take responsibility for the potential of your mind there are plenty of influences that will do it for you.

Look at the politics here in the USA. See how individuals have influence over so many unconscious minds, and regardless of who you’re for, it’s been allowed to let them influence the potential of many minds. This now becomes the container for whoever you’re for or against and your mind will act accordingly. Even though it seems like this was a choice there really wasn’t. The question of any influence is it based in love? Whatever is thought about frequently becomes the potential of the mind; it has to because that’s how it’s conditioned. This article is strictly to be viewed to see how all of this limits you and to possibly allow you to see what container (attachment) is establishing the potential of your mind…

Selfish Box Trap

What is considered the selfish box entraps most people to the destructiveness that this enforces. Unless you can go beyond this, there will be acceptance of the destructiveness of the selfish box…

Stepping outside of the selfish box as far as thinking goes is a must if one is to go beyond the destructiveness of this box. You may ask why would a person want to go beyond the selfish box, here’s why. The so called selfish box is based in form and to be attached to form causes suffering. It’s as simple as that, selfishness pushes attachment to the senses (form). Life attached to form still occurs, it just isn’t experienced as beneficial as it can be. There will still be experiences simply because you’re alive, but they will be dictated by the selfishness and there’ll be much suffering associated with them. The selfish box entraps you to the destructiveness selfishness enforces. Unless you can see this to go beyond it, there will be acceptance of the selfish box. It’s an easy trap to get caught in because the selfishness uses delusion to distract you.

Selfishness also plays right into the reward system of attaching to form. Who does anything that doesn’t have the reward of pleasure associated with it? This can be applied to just about anybody and anything. When was the last time you purposely did something that you knew was going to be unpleasant with no reward attached to it? This is pivotal in understanding the process of the Conditioned Mind and the way the selfishness cause suffering. Until you don’t attach to what arises, without judging it or associating it with pleasure, the selfish box will be what dictates the life you’re living. And it will be destructive based on the attachment to the selfish box…

Enticed Reaching

The most important thing to understand about enticed reaching is the less attachment there is to “I” the less you will be enticed to reach for something you think is needed for satisfaction…

Enticed reaching is so powerful because what’s reached for is actually satisfying; this is why enticed reaching is so addicting. There’s issue with this because of the impermanent nature of being satisfied. Satisfaction simply will not last, it has no staying power so something will always be needed following the attainment of whatever is reached for. Think about it, with all the things you have been enticed to reach for throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the satisfaction now that it brought at that time. Most times, even if the same exact thing is physically repeated it’s usually not as satisfying as the first experience. I used so many things as I was enticed by my reaching conditioning, but it never lasted; the next enticed reaching always arose. This went on all the time, reaching for one thing after another and never staying satisfied.

I’ve come to understand this enticed reaching as the main reason people start using and become addicted to things. If needing satisfaction wasn’t sought, nothing would be reached for so there would never be an addiction. Unfortunately, enticed reaching has its way with people. It’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place since the beginning of human form. I know this enticed reaching is what controlled me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with “I”. Without “I” no one is there to be enticed. Even with this understanding enticed reaching doesn’t just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me, the most important thing to understand about this is, the less attachment there is to “I” the less you will be enticed to reach because without “I” there’s no one who needs the next satisfaction…

Controlling Lies

Whatever controls you and makes you think it’s needed to be happy, it becomes your lie. It’s not right or wrong, but the key is to understand if being controlled by a lie will truly provide what you think it will…

To me, whoever is looked upon for inspiration or whatever, it should be noted that most likely they didn’t always see things as they do now. I’m fortunate to have experienced two totally different ways of viewing life. It’s where my insights arise from and the reason why I share what I do. Having been controlled by lies for so many years has actually become my greatest asset. When I write about something it’s always from a lie that’s been exposed. It’s never about being smarter or knowing more than anyone else; what’s there is simply what’s there and it’s what’s shared. When I talk about quietness or stillness it’s because I was controlled by lies which is a life full of noise. When there’s talk of attachment, it’s because attachment is the master lie.

Everyone who is alive experiences life, it’s what’s done with the experiences that determines if you’re controlled by lies. An example is if you think you need to have material things to be happy, you will be controlled by that lie. It’s not right or wrong, but the key is to understand if the lie will provide what you think it will. Deep down inside having material things doesn’t change you. 

For me, I went through a life of much suffering, always controlled by the lie of what my Conditioned Mind made me believe was happiness; today I see this for the lie that it is. When I write something it’s because I can see the lie that controlled me; today I have been provided with a view of true liberation. I’m very direct in my approach, but I’m not insensitive to anyone else’s view, it’s just that I’ve been controlled by lies for far too long, and because of this I can see that way too many are still controlled by them…