An Empty Closet

Fear doesn’t live in the closet, fear lives strictly inside your head, and until the mind settles so you can look inside your head, you’re always going to fear what’s in the closet…

Fear doesn’t live in the closet, it lives inside your head. My entire life was driven by the made up fear in my head that my mind created through the way I was conditioned. The mind is nothing but energy, but the content of the way it’s conditioned determines whether fear is created. Sometimes angels are created, but they’re still made up. Kind of like whistling in the dark to keep away the boogie man or in this case fear. As long as the need to whistle is there, fear will never go away.

The fear that’s inside your head and creates fear of what’s in the closet, is a lie; all you have to do is open the closet door to expose this lie. The conditioning tells you to not open the door so the lie along with the fear remains in place. This can be changed for angels and you would think it’s better to have them living in the closet, but although angels have a better reputation, they too are a created lie.

This is where the simplicity of life steps in if you can just understand fear only lives inside your head. There is nothing in your head except the story of what your conditioning creates. This is what takes the simplicity out of life and makes it difficult. Why this creates difficulties is because life is lived as a story of what’s in your head instead of the simple fact that nothing is inside the closet…

Hear What Life Has to Say

There’s no way you will ever fully understand life so answers are made up. Only in the space of silence can you hear what life has to say without making up answers…

Hearing what life has to say as it occurs allows for harmony, it’s in this space that what’s not of the mind can arise; thoughts actually block this hearing. The silence is always there, but it’s not always heard because of the noise between the ears. Most people are programmed to live visually without taking much time to truly hear what life has to say. This visual living is why you get pulled around by the outer view because hearing the silence underneath the visual hasn’t been developed. There’s no way you can fully understand life conceptually so answers are made up; only in the space of silence can you hear what life is saying. Develop a meditation where you just sit with the sounds of the moment, add nothing take nothing away, just sit, listen and you will hear what arises. 

Hearing life’s moments is so different than being controlled by the visual view. This is because through the visual, a label of like or dislike is instantly applied and attachment follows. This is the point where the visual gains control. As this occurs, hearing what life has to say is missed. This is the beginning of how stories are created, it’s because the space of each moment will be filled with something; it will either be a story or silence. Learning to hear what occurs in each moment is a skill few develop. Until it becomes the primary way life is viewed, the visual will continue to keep you in bondage as the outer control doesn’t allow you to hear what life has to say…

Distorted Minded View

There’s not much life in a distorted minded view. What happens with a distorted view is one’s love flowing energy is cut off which causes everyone to suffer…

A distorted minded view is what causes one to get locked into only seeing things from the side of suffering. It matters little what that distortion is, as it’s the rigidness of being in a distorted mode that doesn’t allow love flowing energy. The is what happens when a story is created and it becomes the distorted view of what life is about in any particular moment. This becomes deeply ingrained as one becomes emotionally tied to whatever the distorted view is focused on. It’s very difficult to not attach to something that is held dear to our hearts, such as our children, spouse, parents, relatives, friends and so on, but you can have compassion, passion, and genuine love for something without attaching to it and it being distorted.

To me, being distorted minded is the normal view of many people and it’s why many suffer unnecessarily. I’ve noticed this occurring in so many lives and I can see the suffering it’s causing. Unfortunately those in the midst of this distorted view cannot see it. Nor can one pull themselves out of it until the distorted minded view is seen as the cause of suffering. The distorted view doesn’t allow the openness needed to be free from attachment, and since attachment is the root of suffering, suffering is inevitable. The tighter the grip of something the more one becomes distorted minded and the less love flowing energy there is in one’s life. There’s not much life in a distorted minded view because what happens is one’s love flowing energy is cut off; this view always causes suffering…

Resisting Change

When you can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom. Today can be the day that resisting change doesn’t hold you in the past…

Although most change is resisted, the reason why is because it’s not understood that resisting it keeps you in the past. If you liked donuts you wouldn’t want to eat them every single day at every meal. Change will happen, but resisting it doesn’t have to be. Make this the day that change doesn’t isn’t resisted. See it as the opening of a door that gets you unstuck from the complacency of what’s familiar. Let’s face it nobody really changes unless they’re forced to. The mind loves the familiar, even if the familiar isn’t the most beneficial choice. I see it all the time in the responses to my post. All my post do is provide another perspective, but many times they’re just discounted for the view a person has in place. I lived a conditioned existence for many years so I know what I’m talking about. Not many people truly understand the Conditioned Mind so when something new is presented, the resistance to it rears its ugly head; as it’s discounted you remain locked in past conditioning.

Resisting change will happen consciously or unconsciously, but what’s not grasped is although the mind is conditioned to hold onto the familiar, change is needed to grow. For years I was stuck in resistive familiar conditioning that didn’t allow change to take place. Even when it looked as though change did happen, it was only on the surface level. Surface change is a society measurement and it’s mostly a facade. Inner change is a transformation and can’t be measured. When one can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom…

Unconsciously Controlled

Thoughts will arise, but they don’t have to unconsciously control you. If there isn’t awareness of your thoughts, they will have control over you and will unconsciously lead you…

If there isn’t awareness of your thoughts, there won’t be anyway of knowing how they control you and how you’re unconsciously led by them. Without this awareness you’ll be distracted and taken on a distracted ride. Not that life does anything directly to anyone, but thoughts do arise and they determine what kind of ride you will be on. Awareness of your arisen thoughts is essential if you’re not going to be distracted by them. Thoughts are a natural part of life, they will arise. To me there’s no way of controlling the thoughts that arise, but I have found that awareness of them allows for some space that can be used to determine whether or not the unconscious thought leads you; remember it’s the unconscious attachment to a thought that causes suffering not the thought itself.

The Conditioned Mind is cunning. Unless there’s some awareness of how much you’re being led by your unconscious thoughts, they will and this has to happen, lead you around as if you were a puppet on a string. So subtle is this that even if you’re doing things that are labeled as good, if these thoughts aren’t watched, they will eventually control you; remember control is control regardless of what label is applied to the thought. This is why the Conditioned Mind is cunning because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to unconsciously control you. Thoughts will arise, but you don’t have to be controlled by them. If there isn’t awareness of this, your thoughts will be unconscious and you will automatically be controlled by them…

Form Reliance

Form reliance creates a prison to a self that blocks love from being the guiding energy of daily living. And although one may be alive, to be without love is to be without life…

Form reliance creates a prison to the material world of self. How controlling this is determines the degree that your reliance has a hold on you; make no mistake, form reliance is form reliance regardless of what is used. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences. Form is form, no matter what’s used it keeps you in prison. I’d like to address something much more subtle than some substance or object and that is the form reliance of your own mind which is the real prison. 

A substance or object can hold you in captivity, but it’s the mind that puts you in the place of form reliance. Without the mind telling you form reliance is needed, reliance on anything would be non existent. The subtleness of this form reliance is literally mind boggling. Take an alarm clock as an example, as soon as the alarm rings, if the snooze button is hit, instantly the mind makes the self (form) want the moment to be in some other way. If this mind set isn’t altered to bring about awareness of this, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a mind that’s been conditioned to satisfy a form reliance self.

This takes on many forms: talking about others, eating habits, pouting or sulking, social status, being miserly (cheap), trying to control situations and people, judging, lust, greed, envy, self righteousness, false pride, and the list goes on, but what all these have in common is they are all form reliance solutions of the Conditioned Mind to fix an internal problem of lack. Until something is done to allow the mind to settle, this will probably go on to the day that form is near death. If this happens you will see how most of your life was never truly experienced in the way that it could have been. This may not seem as devastating as say using alcohol or drugs, but it is because either way life is experienced from a form reliance perspective and is never truly lived…

Repeated Labels

Repeated labels keep you attached to a world where there’s very little freedom because there’s no room for truth. If you want freedom, the repeated labels will have to go…

The more you repeat labeling something, the more those labels are in control. It’s difficult to experience the openness of something if it’s already decided how it is. To remain open one needs to limit their repeated labels. This is essential if there’s to be alignment with the Universe and be free from the repeated labeling process. Repeated labels will need to be let go of if there’s to be freedom; this hold is very subtle. Even the label on whether you like this post or not will keep you in the same place. This post can resonate with you without labeling it, but labels seem to make the world go round. That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, but that’s just a label.

I lived an existence that was based in repeated labels for most of my life. This caused much conflict; wars are started over repeated labels. If you’re really honest with yourself you’ll see that every disagreement you ever had was caused by being attached to a repeated label about something. I’m not saying you shouldn’t stand up for truth, but truly knowing about something and repeatedly labeling it are totally different.

There is a place of no labels, if it’s not understood you’ll never become label free, and you’ll remain in an existence of repeated labels. When this is the place lived from there’s very little freedom. When you can just be with life as it unfolds and not repeatedly label it as this or that, you’ll be on the verge of truly experiencing life, label free. When you’re not applying a repeated label to everything, there’s freedom to be with life as it is without being stuck in the same place…

Pulling Nothing In

Regardless of what happens in life, if it’s pulled in it will cause suffering. Even if what’s occurring initially causes suffering, the suffering will deepen the more something is pulled in…

Everything has its place because it’s what’s there so to say this or that shouldn’t be happening leads to suffering because the moment is being pulled in. This isn’t to say everything that happens is suppose to happen, but what does happen is what’s there and there’s no changing it. The results of what happens can be changed, but not initially. That is unless one is coming from a different place than what was previously known. This may change the initial results, but they are still the results of what’s occurring now. So much energy is wasted on pulling in what has occurred and why it’s wasted energy is because the unchangeable is trying to be changed.

When you get to a place where something labeled good, bad, or indifferent isn’t pulled in, this is a place of freedom. Nothing should be pulled in. I know this is difficult to imagine and this isn’t to say to not take action to change things, but what has occurred still has be accepted so the action to change something purely comes from love and compassion and not from the ego. Even someone who is totally unconscious and causes much harm to others shouldn’t be pulled in either because it’s the conditioning in place that makes one do what they do; one is still accountable for their actions. Use this example; If you hit a slice in golf, pulling in that you hit a slice doesn’t change that fact, just move on, learn from it and just maybe your next shot won’t be a slice,. Even if it is, don’t pull it in and move on. Nothing has to be pulled in unless that’s what you have in place…

Beneficial Energy

Everyone has the responsibility to make the world a better place by looking at the energy that’s in control of their life. Self-absorbing energy doesn’t benefit anyone, but love-absorbing energy benefits our entire human family…

Although in 1987 I stopped using certain substances as a developed solution to cope with life, many of my inner conflicts persisted because I didn’t understand the true nature of my malady. I had no knowledge whatsoever, as to why I constantly reached outside myself for a solution, and why these solutions were developed. I found this reaching was caused by the need to fulfill a self created inner sense of lack; a lack I didn’t even know was there. In the book “It’s Monday Only in Your Mind” it’s explained what causes this, and why anything has to be reached for in the first place. Also described is a path that leads to the discovery of inner truth. A truth that leads to the freedom from this lack. I’ve learned as human beings we are really in conflict with ourselves and we don’t understand where these conflicts originate from.

I discovered it’s my own mind, which has been conditioned to constantly think about self that made me look for answers out there somewhere. This is the root cause of our conflicts. It’s a mind that leads one around like a puppet on a string. I have found through self investigation a practical gateway to freedom that anyone can learn. There’s a reason the world’s in the condition it’s in. We all need to pull together to become aware of this and share the love in our hearts. We are the change the world needs, but it will only occur when it’s understood that our love for others has to come first. Everyone has the responsibility to make the world a better place by looking at the energy that’s in control of their life. If it’s self-absorbing energy, it will not benefit anyone, but if it’s love-absorbing energy, it will benefit our entire human family. After all, it’s the world we all share…

Channel of Love

Life can only truly be experienced through the channeled energy of love and that’s if the channel of your own love is in place. If it’s not it has to be found out why this isn’t so in order for it to be changed…

When someone awakens it’s to the channeled love in their own heart; this is the love of creation. As this is experienced, it becomes the channel one experiences the world through. If everyone knew their own mind and how it’s only through the way one is conditioned that it doesn’t allow a person to channel their own magnificence, they would do what’s necessary to change this. This conditioning is not the direct fault of anyone, but it doesn’t have to remain in place because it can be changed. One can channel the world from the love within their own heart, but this can only occur by understanding yourself. When you know your own heart you do what’s necessary to remove the blocks that don’t allow you to channel the world through love.

The world can be channeled through your own heart of love when love is in place. If it’s not, it has to be found out why this isn’t so in order for it to be changed. Love is the power of the entire Universal and we are a direct result of its power. Every human starts out as the same form; when conditions are right the Universe channels one form of energy into another. This has nothing to do with the individual human form, it does however have everything to do with the transformation of spiritual energy that allows one to channel their own love and thus experience the world through the channel of that love…

A Greater Reality

A greater reality cannot be understood by a mind that has been conditioned to make the world fit nicely into a limited box of space and time…

The limited box of space and time is our so called comfort zone. The more we stay in this box, which is the world of thought, the more we limit ourselves to a base of Self (our ego). It isn’t that we truly understand everything when our mind becomes quiet, but we stop questioning the external and start looking within which allows us to truly live our life the way it was intended; as the loving beings that we are. This allows for the shift from a self-serving existence to one of love. This doesn’t mean we get answers to the great secrets of the Universe, what we get is an understanding of our Conditioned Mind and how it was developed.

Once the Conditioned Mind is understood, there’s awareness of what blocks love from being the default setting of your mind. With this awareness you’ll learn to control a mind that has been out of control for most of your life. When you have this control, which manifest as quietness, there won’t be a need for answers because you’ll see the greater reality of your questions providing all the answers that you need…

Light Portal

The Conditioned Mind is grounded in darkness, this is why most people don’t see the light portal. The light portal is always there, but it needs to be noticed so one can turn towards it and allow it to transform…

All light has a portal with transforming properties, that’s why when one sees the light portal, they’re transformed. Look at a plant, it begins as a seed, it has potential, but it’s still only a seed. You can put it in soil, water it and give it all the nutrients possible, but without a source of a light portal, the transformation from seed to plant will not occur. This transforming light portal is the source of most of life, there are exceptions to this rule as with deep sea creatures or those in caves, but for the most part the light portal transforms. Go into a dark room and turn on the light portal, there’s an instant transformation of the room. The walls come alive with color, the furniture and design of the room are also intensified. Without the light portal the room still exists, but its vibrance is hidden.

When one wakes up to experience this hidden vibrance, it’s the lights portal that transforms just as it is with a plant or a room. You can be in the dark your entire life, but once there’s a light portal, the darkness is gone. It may return somewhat because of one’s conditioning, but it will never be as dark as it once was. It can’t because there will always be some light. This light portal reveals truth, (one’s internal energy of love) and it’s impossible to completely turn it off. As stated before it will turn off only because of one’s unconscious conditioning, but this light portal is always on beneath the conditioning because light is the source of our existence and the true essence (love) of who we are. The Conditioned Mind is grounded in darkness and the world is the way it is because not enough people see the light portal. The light portal is always there, it just needs to be noticed so one can turn towards it and allow it to transform…

Conditioned Cravings

All cravings are conditioned driven. It matters little to life or the Universe whether those cravings are fulfilled or not. You can make up a story fulfilling your cravings matters, but that’s your story…

You can have a craving for things to be a certain way, but to life this doesn’t really matter. Life isn’t a respecter of cravings, it allows things for its betterment. If you’re one of the instruments which are being used in this capacity, you’re truly blessed because you’re probably assisting others in a unique way. This doesn’t make you special, but it does allow you to be free of the self-centered cravings that hold most of the world in captivity. Cravings are conditioned driven, it matters little to life or the Universe whether they’re fulfilled or not. You can make up a story fulfilling your cravings matter, but that’s your story not life’s. Fulfill every craving in your life, at the end of it you will have exactly what you would’ve had if no craving was fulfilled.

It always amusing watching a game and a player does something good, it’s always followed up by pointing upward as if something is watching and cares more about that person as opposed to the opposition. What happens when the other team loses, which is inevitable? I’m waiting for the day when a team loses and points downward. All these stories mean nothing to the Universe, regardless if they seem to work out or not, they are just stories. Who’s suppose to answer them anyway, God, good luck with that. Things will always work out the way they work out; the Universe (life) doesn’t really care if they do or don’t. Cravings are only held onto because they’re thought to be needed, but because life isn’t a respecter of cravings, suffering occurs because that’s what you not life have in place…

Compulsive Mind

Although the pleasures of the world take on many forms, it’s the compulsive mind that makes one seek them. This compulsion can only be quieted in stillness, because when the mind is still, a compulsion can’t exist…

The compulsion aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it’s almost always in pleasure seeking mode. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse form of pleasure. The mind wants to compulsively keep all the pleasure thoughts even if this causes its own destruction; it spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up to the same light, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it, the reason for the doing is strictly to satisfy some compulsive form of pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of how the mind has been compulsively conditioned.

The compulsive pleasure seeking mode is not one which is in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think seeking pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle, it loses its grip on you. True pleasure is in stillness not in things; the pleasure of stillness is not the same pleasure that the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in compulsive lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. There are many pointers that speak of quieting a compulsive mind that only stillness can satisfy. This compulsion is the self seeking pleasure of the world, this is the compulsion the world creates; it cannot be satisfied. It’s only in stillness that this compulsive mind is satisfied. Not because it’s given something, but because in stillness a compulsion never materializes so there is no compulsive mind that needs to be satisfied…

Inner Unification

Inner unification results in your ability to love; it’s a simple decision to be made. A self-serving mind generates inner chaos with itself, love generates a mind that’s united with itself…

The simplicity of life is related to your ability to love which allows for inner unification with your own mind. That’s why it’s imperative to understand not the great secrets of the Universe, but your own mind. When the mind is united with itself, there’s unification with all that is; it’s as simple as that. The same mind creates inner chaos and inner unification, which of these is manufactured determines the outcome of your life.

Inner chaos is generated by the energy of a self-serving mind and doesn’t make life conducive to love. If chaos is what’s being created there won’t be much unification or simplicity. What direction the mind goes in is the energy that it generates, and to that extent will there be inner unification. Inner unification is simply your ability to love. This is the hearts direction, hence it becomes the direction of the mind. When love is generated, it produces much different results than when the energy generated is self-serving. Inner unification on the other hand generates the results of being in unity with all beings. Love is the simplest form of life, simply love and inner unification will be. Or not and life will remain a struggle, but don’t blame life for this because it’s your own energy that directs what’s chosen. Inner unification is simple to understand, but it’s not easy to generate…