Cohesive Action

Reaching is the issue not the thing reached for. Not everything one thinks is cohesive is truly beneficial. It will take a very settled mind to see if what you think is cohesive truly is…

Doing what’s cohesive for your well being needs to be investigated to see if what you’re doing truly is cohesive and not just a story of what you think is cohesive. Many people play the lottery to become rich so to become rich becomes your cohesive energy. Sex is often used as being cohesive as is the spiritual path. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, and also their counter parts (their programs) are used as cohesive energy, but as the results of these energies may be different, the prison they keep you in is the same. Working out and healthy eating habits are very cohesive, but many attach a story to them and negate their true cohesiveness. I know many people are vegans and I have no opinion either way, but no where have I ever read that Jesus or the Buddha used this as a cohesive part of their practice. All I’m saying is what I’ve found to be truly cohesive needs no story or attachment to certain results.

I can only share my experience and I’ve found reaching for anything in whatever form it takes on is not true cohesiveness. The reaching is the issue, not the thing being reached for. To me in the space of just being with what arises in the present moment is truly cohesive. Not everything you think is cohesive truly benefits your life. It will take a very settled mind to see the subtleness of the attachment to things that are deemed cohesive. I say if you are reaching for something, regardless of what it is, it’s not cohesive to your well being. This is because the reaching itself is the issue as it keeps you in a mental prison…

Limited Awareness

Going through life without an understanding of how the mind becomes conditioned, makes existence much more difficult because it limits your awareness; limited awareness, limits understanding…

We discover the cause of all suffering when we’re truly able to see our conditioning for what it is, and understand how it creates feelings and emotions that aren’t real. They feel real because of the attachment to them, but their reality is only relative to our thinking and the association to our identity. When this is discovered and we disassociate with this kind of thinking, we become more aligned with the Creative Intelligence of the Universe which to me is love; love is what gives us so much awareness in life.

When we stop believing in the nonsense of thought, we learn how to allow love to be our guide. This is when you’re able to see your thoughts for what they truly are, disassociate from them and separate the ones that cause suffering and limit your awareness; this is when our suffering ceases to exist. This is not some belief, this is factual. I know this because it’s my direct experience. A thought cannot cause harm unless it’s given the energy needed to do so, and this is what determines if the thought is attached to or not. The more attachment there is, the more it limits your awareness. In the awareness of this is one’s freedom. It’s your own ignorance of this that creates suffering. This suffering is caused by going through life without an understanding of how the mind works and how it limits your awareness; with limited awareness you have limited understanding so you are easily manipulated…

Created Agitations

The inner agitation that keeps you from your peace has nothing to do with life. The agitation is a creation of your own mind that makes you believe you are not at peace…

There are practical ways to minimize the inner agitation that causes one to sabotage their own existence. But it has to be understood that the mind creating the agitation cannot quiet itself. You will have to find out why your own mind is telling you the agitation is needed to cope with life; a life that is controlled by the conditioning to create an inner agitation. Your own mind creates all the inner agitations you have by choosing to attach to thoughts that give the agitation life. This unconscious conditioning are why agitations arise. The Conditioned Mind creates this as you do things that are destructive to your own well being. Why this agitation mind set is developed I’m not sure, but I do know it can be described only as insane because your own mind does this.

I know now it was my own mind that created agitations which arose from within myself. Because of the shift that occurred some years ago, there‘s now awareness so inner agitations don’t have to be created anymore. I sit for the sole purpose to develop discipline which allows the mind to settle. If there isn’t discipline your conditioning won’t be understood nor will the reason why agitations arise. This will lead you to being led around like a puppet on a string. Life does nothing to you, it’s your own mind that does it all. Living in a place of agitation as opposed to a place of peace will never change until the conditioning that makes it so is changed. All I ever wanted was to be at peace, but I wasn’t aware it was my own mind that created the inner agitation which made me believe there wasn’t any…

Fictitious Identity

Creating a fictitious identity is all part of the Conditioned Mind with life setting the stage for it to be played out. In silence you’re still on stage, but the fictitious identity isn’t needed…

Most of the things that are reached for throughout life are used to create a fictitious identity. It’s as if you’re on stage and your identity is being created, taking on whatever the assigned identity may be at the time. Each person studies their lines and creates the fictitious identity in whatever way their conditioning has been developed; there are many roles used in creating your fictitious identity. This fictitious identity is associated with the things reached for to make your part in the play more interesting; not many want to be in a play where everyone sits around in silence. It would seem there is needed drama for life to be more interesting, but this is the fictitious identity the Conditioned Mind creates.

Only in silence can life be lived to the fullest. Without the fictitious identity, you’re still present on the stage of life, but you’re not controlled by the fictitious conditioning. It’s this conditioning that makes you need a fictitious identity. In silence even though the stage is already set, a fictitious identity doesn’t have to be taken on nor is there a need to create one in the puppet show of a conditioned life…

Brainwashed Logic

Anytime something is done that’s not beneficial, it’s brainwashed logic that makes it so. You can say “I shouldn’t have done that” but you can only do what your brainwashed logic tells you…

It’s not always easy to see life as a gift, there are reasons for this. It’s not to deny that sometimes unpleasant or horrific things happen, but who labels the thing unpleasant and who does the unpleasantness happen to? Although the human form does exist, it doesn’t exist in the way that it appears. It’s brainwashed logic that puts a label on things so it makes sense. The brainwashed logic has to have an answer for everything and if it doesn’t, it will go searching until it either finds one or makes one up. Life isn’t about having all the answers, or even needing all the answers, but the way the mind has been brainwashed, that’s exactly what it makes it all about. Attaining, accomplishing, achieving, all to satisfy a mind that is never satisfied; no wonder the world is as it is.

Life is continuous, the mind has been brainwashed to make up all kinds of nonsense to avoid seeing this. It uses time to make you believe life needs to be broken up into segments; what time is really needed for is to simply keep track of things. The Here and Now is where life always occurs no matter what time it is or what’s going on, but understand as you’re in one of these created segments waiting for this or that to occur, the brainwashed logic makes it seem as though life is incomplete, like life is passing you by.

Life can never be any more complete than it is right now, except to a mind that’s been brainwashed to be everywhere except here, And although the brainwashing has made you think you have developed a logical mind, there really isn’t any logic to it; until this is understood the brainwashed mind controls the show. Think of this, anytime you do something that isn’t beneficial to you, your brainwashed logic is making you do it. This is something that needs to be realized if you’re to truly live life and not wait for it to be perfectly logical to enjoy the temporary gift of life that we all have been blessed with…

Analyzing vs Understanding

The incessant need to analyze life limits it. Understanding is different than analyzing because it allows for the awareness of exactly what’s there instead of what’s thought to be there…

Most of what happens in life is unexplained, but that doesn’t stop the mind from analyzing it or continuously trying to find an explanation. I have found the unexplained is best left alone because an answer wouldn’t really enhance life. As things occur, analyzing what’s associated with existence does assist to a degree, but only if it’s not allowed to control your life like a master puppeteer. Most people are limited by the incessant need for to analyze life, but understanding something is different because it allows for the awareness of exactly what you’re up against (your own mind). This awareness allows the mind to settle and lessen the need for analytical answers which aren’t truly needed. The analysis of addiction doesn’t stop one from being an addict, but an understanding of addiction may; as a matter of fact this is exactly what happened to me.

The Universe needs no analysis in its process nor does the origin of a thought need to be analyzed. The understanding of how thoughts are attached to and what behaviors manifest from their attachment is the difference between being at peace with life or struggling with it. Some will disagree with this and it’s their right, but I know by understanding my behavior and how it was based to self-serve, it gave me something tangible to use to see how much control my Conditioned Mind had over me. Past tense is used because its control is much less today. Analyzing why this occurs doesn’t enhance the ability to be free of the Conditioned Mind, but an understanding of this certainly does. It’s through the discipline of sitting that the mind can settle enough to become aware that analyzing what happens in life will not enhance it in the way understanding our own mind will…

A Masked Void

The Conditioned Mind creates a lie masked as a void, this void is a lack of love. Until this is realized, one will constantly need to reach for something to try and fill this masked void even though it doesn’t truly exist…

For many years I had a masked void in me that was created from a lack of love. That’s why I constantly reached for things to fill it; I have since come to understand this. This masked void isn’t a true void at all, it’s emptiness; this emptiness is the essence of love. It’s where life truly happens when one is busy making other plans. By not understanding this, I spent most of my life trying to fill a masked void with whatever I could get my hands on. This is an endless list as to what can be used, so each individual has to investigate for themselves what that is. It’s ironic though because now most of my life is spent in the space that for so long was masked as a void; the truth of this has been revealed to me.

This masked void is the reason why someone reaches for anything or wants life to be different. If this was understood for what it truly was, humanity would be much different because contentment would be the way of the world. The void is a masked lie of the Conditioned Mind and it keeps one constantly needing the present moment to be different so it keeps you reaching to fill it. This will need to be understood if the reaching is to ever end. When it is understood, the masked void transforms to love because the present moment doesn’t need to be different. When the present moment doesn’t need to be different life reveals its true essence, which doesn’t ever need to be filled with anything because the masked void is seen for the lie that it truly is…

Follower View Limit

Follower view based thoughts limit and are the controller of a limited based existence. This is a prison that you will only be released from by going beyond your follower view limit into the realm of silence…

It’s impossible to be limited by a follower view existence that isn’t created by your own mind. What this means is regardless of what happens, it’s the minds follower view that’s created by your conditioning; this comes from within yourself. Lots of things happen throughout the day and each time there’s a choice to be a follower or a leader. Everyone has the ability within to cease causing their own limits, it just takes a certain amount of discipline for this to occur. What discipline does is it slows down the follower view that limits continuously. This slowing down is the beginning of a leader view being revealed. Without it, the necessary silence that allows the expansion of the heart will not happen.

If there’s only a follower view and no silence, all there will be is a limit that doesn’t allow the ability to watch the present moment unfold. If this isn’t seen, the mind never slows down and there won’t be any space between your follower view limit thoughts. Life will simply be follower view based; the result of this creates your limits and your suffering. When life slows down, you’ll see how it’s your own mind that takes something that happens and makes it into a follower view limit. When you see this, you can break free of the hold your mind has over you as you’ll be able to see that you are not your follower view limit, you are beyond it…

Mind Content Trap

When the mind content is you need something to provide peace, you’re trapped by this. Until this is understood, you’ll remain trapped in the mind content that peace is outside of you…

There will never be peace in your life as long as you’re trapped by the mind content that peace is outside of you. Peace is something that’s already within everyone, but because of the way our minds are conditioned, we get trapped by the mind content that peace is something to find. Unfortunately this mind content makes the very thing you’re seeking elusive. Your needing peace mind content is the reason one is constantly reaching for something outside. Until this mind content is no more, you’ll remain trapped that peace is in the next thing reached for. This can’t be stressed enough as these trappings have to be seen if you’re to ever experience true peace.

The mind content of being at peace isn’t peace. What has to happen if peace is to ever be experienced is there has to be an understanding of how this mind content traps you. The reason why peace is elusive is because of the inability to be aware of this. When the need to reach for something arises, becoming trapped by mind content begins; this is a conditioned cycle that’s very difficult to break. Peace isn’t something that can be manufactured so it’s in doing less that peace arises. Many get trapped in trying to find peace, but since it’s already within, the idea associated with finding it needs to be discarded so you can uncover the reason why you’re trapped in the mind content that you’re not at peace…

No Hiding From Yourself

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

Simply put, the energy you put out is the energy within you; you can’t hide from that which 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 it can’t. If you put out the energy of hate it’s because that’s the energy in you, like it 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 you put out is your own energy and it engulfs you. 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 affect it has on you is where most of the harm is. You can’t hide from your own energy output because it comes from inside you so there’s no where for you to hide; wherever you go there you are. This is why acting in unloving ways constantly repeats itself because you can only be the energy that you are l, and until there is awareness of this it will be the focal point of your actions. Love and you will be love or not and that’s the energy you will be because you can’t hide from yourself…

Repetitive Energy

Most reactions that occur in life are from repetitive energy that’s put in place by your own conditioning. If your life becomes bogged down it’s your own repetitive energy that makes it so…

Although things may appear to be a certain way it’s not always as it seems. It’s difficult to see beyond your own mind when repetitive energy is brought into play. So much of what the mind holds onto becomes repetitive and is stored as energy to be used at particular times; this is how most lives are lived. It’s as though we already have in place the way things are going to be reacted to; repetitive reactions are formed in this way. 

Advertisement is a billion dollar industry because of this. Marketing uses certain tools which they know are going to sway people in repetitive ways. Stores know exactly where to place products. It’s all based on putting things in a certain place so repetitive energy is triggered . 

This goes on constantly because of the way the Conditioned Mind uses repetitive energy. If you had no previous conditioning, none of this would work, but this is not the case. One of the keys to not living from repetitive energy is to develop a way to be anchored in the present as much as you can because the more you’re present in the moment the less repetitive energy there is. When this occurs, there’s peace because the repetitive energy in place is no longer making you think things need to be different than what they are…

Beyond Mind Lies

Wisdom arises when you’re fully mindful because the lies of an unwholesome mind fall away. It’s in being fully aware of this that the mind settles and allows you to live without lies…

There are formations of the mind that arise in each moment, they are either wholesome, unwholesome, or neutral. The first is the unwholesome mind formation, this is based in a lie and leads to suffering. Wholesome mind formations are those that lead to peace and joy. The wholesome ones don’t need a belief to be, they just need to be investigated to see the truth of their wholesomeness. The third mind formation is probably the most difficult one because it’s based in non judgement. It’s neither wholesome nor unwholesome, it’s neutral. It arises for everyone in the present moment and its function is to just see what is. This mind formation doesn’t interpret what arises, nor does it attach to it. Think of seeing a stranger on a platform at a train station. Without judgement there’s simply no attachment and neutral remains the mind formation of the moment. Once there’s judgement, the mind formation of the moment changes.

At times unwholesome mind formations arise and are attached to; there is some mindfulness of this simply because it’s happening, it’s labeled and thus attached to for the most part unconsciously. It’s the focus of these mind formations that determine your actions. Being fully mindful allows you to see, but without needing a label. Being neutral allows you to recognize (perceive) but not be fully mindful. Wisdom arises when you’re fully mindful because the distractions of the unwholesome mind lies fall away. It’s in being fully aware of this that the mind settles and allows you to live without lies. Wisdom isn’t something learned, it arises when you’re disciplined enough to remain fully mindful in the present moment more often than not…

Thought Awareness

Thoughts are neither right nor wrong, but there are some that are more loving. If there’s thought awareness and there isn’t attachment, the ones that aren’t loving will dissipate as passing clouds…

Thoughts come and go just as passing clouds. If you’ve ever sat and watched clouds, you’ve noticed the clouds eventually dissipate; here one minute, gone the next. It’s the same when there’s thought awareness, they arise, there’s no denying that, but unless there’s attachment to them, they dissipate. The question to ask is are your thoughts loving? Your answer is a key factor in how you will live your life. Let’s say you have a thought to do something unloving, if there isn’t thought awareness the benefit factor of it and the next step becomes an unloving action.

There’s no way to be in the thoughtless realm continuously, at least this has been my experience, it’s more so to learn if your thoughts are loving or not. If there isn’t thought awareness this won’t be noticed and unloving actions will be more in control. This is because most minds unconsciously default to satisfying yourself which doesn’t allow the objectivity one gets from thought awareness. When there isn’t thought awareness, they arise one right after the other and the mind gets cloudier and cloudier. Eventually there will be attachment; most likely it will be to unloving thoughts. Only with a settled mind can there be thought awareness and when there is, it allows for the energy to live life in the most loving of ways…

Seeking Fulfillment

For many fulfillment is something that’s constantly sought and it’s a direct link to what keeps the mind in a state of agitation. When things are accepted as they are, seeking fulfillment is no longer necessary…

We live in a fulfillment cultured society. When it’s cold we desire warmth and when it’s hot we desire to be cool. Chasing after this fulfillment is how so many spend their entire lives. If it’s not learned to be with what happens and not constantly push it away, there will be very little peace in one’s life. Most live in a place where they’re afraid of being unfulfilled because it means facing themselves. Although our true essence is the love of all creation, this isn’t seen because the Conditioned Mind doesn’t allow it to be so.

Once discipline is developed that allows you to at least slow the mind down a bit, it can be seen how chasing after fulfillment occupies most of your waking hours; you’re in a constant fix it mode of trying to have things the way you think they need to in order to be at peace. The problem with this is nothing stays the same so you have to constantly make adjustments. It’s truly exhausting to live in this way, but it’s the way most live. It doesn’t have to be this way, but the only way it won’t be is if you can be with what occurs and not want it any different than what it is. This doesn’t mean you can’t have fulfillment, just understand being fulfilled isn’t what allows you to be at peace. Only accepting things as they are will allow peace, and that’s only because you see the fulfillment in that…

Selfish Habits

As we grow up we’re conditioned in a selfish way that allows for our habits to be as they are. Simply put, if our selfish habits were based in love humanity would be much different…

As I look back, I see how many of my habits arose from selfish conditioning, this was just part of what was there growing up. Nothing particularly right or wrong in this, especially because there wasn’t much that could have been done differently. It’s very difficult to act in a loving manner if that’s not what’s in place growing up. Some things are learned naturally, but everything takes some conditioning associated with it. If you’re learning how to golf, at first it’s awkward with no knowledge as to the best way to swing a club, but the more you do it the more awareness of how to swing there is. This way of learning is beneficial when what you’re learning is based in love. Part of the problem is when what becomes habit isn’t based in love because unfortunately it seems natural. This is why it’s so hard to change. I knew what was right (loving) and what was wrong (selfish) growing up, but doing what was loving was not what I was conditioned to do so being selfish became natural for me; there wasn’t anybody to tell me different.

To say the least, these selfish habits caused much suffering because there wasn’t any room for much else to be seen. This is the merry-go-round most people are unknowingly on and it’s a direct result of why humanity is the way that it is. If we all grew up with our habits based in loved, humanity would be much different, it’s that simple. I know this because fifteen years ago I began seeing things differently (of love) and lo and behold things began changing. It doesn’t mean it’s always this way, but just as it is with learning to swing a golf club properly, it takes practice. And for me it’s done so the loving behavior becomes as natural as the selfish habits were…