Seeking Pleasure

The most important thing to understand about seeking pleasure is the less attachment to “I” there is the less you will seek because without “I” there’s no one who needs the next pleasure…

Seeking pleasure is so enticing because it actually feels good; this is why seeking it is so powerful. There’s only issue with this because of the impermanent nature of pleasure. It simply will not last, it has no staying power so something will always be sought almost immediately following the attainment of each pleasure. Think about it, with all the pleasures that have been attained throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the pleasure now that it brought at that time. Most times even if the same exact pleasure is physically repeated it’s usually not as pleasurable as the first experience. I used so many things as I was seeking pleasure, but it was never lasting; the need for the next pleasure always arose. This went on all the time, attaining one pleasure after another and never being satisfied. 

I’ve come to understand that seeking pleasure is the main reason people start using alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, money, tobacco products and an array of other things. If pleasure wasn’t sought, nothing would be reached for so there would never be seeking; unfortunately the seeking of pleasure has its way with people. It’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place since existence began. 

I know seeking pleasure is what controlled me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with “I”. Without “I” no one is there to seek. Even with this understanding seeking pleasure 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 seek pleasure because without “I” there’s no one who needs the next pleasure…

Loving Heart

 

Mind Craving

The pleasures of the world take on many forms, but it’s the craving of the mind that makes one seek them. This craving can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there’s nothing to crave…

One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it craves pleasure most of the time. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse crave for pleasure. The mind wants to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasant ones. 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 along side you, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it. The reason for doing this is strictly to satisfy the mind crave for 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 the way it has been conditioned to crave.

Pleasure seeking craving is not in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think craving pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle and it loses its grip on you, you will see the fallacy of this. True pleasure is in stillness not in things; craving stillness is not the same craving for what the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. It’s only in stillness that cravings are truly satisfied, not because it’s given something, but because in stillness cravings don’t materialize so there’s nothing that needs to be satisfied…

Inner Battles

Nothing that happens in life creates an inner battle unless your own mind allows it. This is the insanity of a Conditioned Mind, its self destructive solutions are from within and they take away your peace…

The bottom line for me is I’ve found a practical way to minimize the inner battles in my life that caused my own destruction. Which by the way is my own mind creating an inner battle telling me it’s needed to cope with life; a life that was controlled by a destructive mind set. My own mind created all the inner battles that went on by choosing actions I thought I wanted to do, but my choices always caused suffering. I developed a mind that told me to do things that were self destructive. From relationships, to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and a slew of other things, nothing was ever chosen that was beneficial for me; my choices always seemed to cause more harm than good. How this mind set developed I’m not sure, but I do know this, it can be described as pure insanity.

Many years ago although it wasn’t a white light experience, an inner urging occurred that was tired of all the destructive behavior. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, but I did know I needed to find a way to bring peace into my life. A label didn’t need to be applied to what happened to me. All that was needed was for me to know was my behavior which was once totally self destructive was no longer this way. This is why labels and what others do isn’t a concern of mine. Because I know for years my own mind allowed these things to create battles within myself and because of the shift that has occurred, there’s an awareness that inner battles don’t have to be created anymore. The bottom line is this, when I have an issue with something it’s my own self destructive mind that creates a battle which means I’m not a peace, but now because there’s awareness of this I don’t allow mind created inner battles so there’s peace. So again the bottom line is to not create inner battles. All I ever wanted in my life was peace, but I didn’t know it was my own mind that was the cause of why there wasn’t any…

Impermanence

Thoughts Traps

Thought traps are endless, but understand the traps come from your own mind. Even though there are conditioned triggers, it’s because of the attachment to thoughts is why there are traps…

If you’re practicing living a spiritual life, but you don’t know your own mind, it’s like wanting to be healthy, but not reducing the amount of junk food you eat; your results will be non existent. If you don’t notice the thought traps, the whole point of any practice will be missed. This is because the trap of thoughts for things outside makes looking inward difficult. There are so many things in place that prevent looking inward from happening, if it doesn’t happen you’ll remain in bondage to your thought traps. The traps aren’t real because when there’s even the slightest opening to allow what’s within to be seen, the expansion beyond the thought traps begins.

Thought traps are very enticing, if they weren’t the percentage of conscious and unconscious beings would be reversed. It’s not this way because the thought traps are in control; these traps are only real because of perception. There’s no denying they’re there, but they’re in control because there’s a fictitious belief the traps are needed. We alone are the creators of this and if one doesn’t have an open mind, the thought traps will continue their onslaught of control. To me, the only way around this is to develop awareness of the thought traps…

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Automatic Results

 

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Hearing Life

If things aren’t done that put you in harmony with life, it will be impossible to hear what life has to say. For this to change it’s imperative to learn about one’s own mind which will go a long way in allowing one to hear what life is saying…

Just observe how the mind justifies all that it does. It has never been trained to be still so it creates most of our problems just so it has something to do. It says to do something and turns around and questions why it was done. It should be treated as a separate entity as if it’s the enemy because upon further review it will be seen that it is. The mind is not truly the enemy, it’s the way it has been conditioned, that’s the true enemy. 

This conditioning blocks the true nature of the mind from arising. It’s only conditioned to be this way because of all the surrounding noise, but it is we ourselves (unconsciously) who listen to habitual mind patterns. Learning about one’s own mind is a way to undo what we ourselves have done. This learning of one’s mind is not about great secrets, it’s more so about getting an understanding of why the things that are done don’t put one in harmony to hear what life is saying. When this is understood, why one responds to things a certain way will be known. After all, if one doesn’t do the things in their life that allows harmony with it, one will never hear what life has to say…

Truth

 

Never Ending Chase

The belief that the next thing attained will make you complete is what keeps you in the mode of the never ending chase. The chasing stops when it’s realized you’re already complete…

There will be completeness when this happens next, the next fix, the next satisfaction, or the next whatever is used for the never ending chase. Chasing what’s next goes on to infinity, it never ends until it’s realized there is no end and one will always be chasing that which is already here; who is the chaser and why all this chasing. Either there’s completeness now with the way things are or there isn’t. You may think chasing the next whatever will bring utopia, but it never ends because there’s nothing to truly attain that ends the chase. The Conditioned Mind will tell you different and that’s why there’s chasing. What really needs to be asked is who is doing the never ending chasing and why? The fictional character of self that’s been made up to think things need to be a certain way for completeness is just that, fictional and this is why there’s the never ending chase.

The self that makes up this nonsense that you’re incomplete is just a story of incompleteness; this is what keeps one chasing. The dream of attaining a certain status, the next promotion, the trophy partner, the next book, the next, the next, the next, whatever keeps you in the never ending mode of the chase. A chase that will either end because this is realized or because life in this forms ends. The chase will end one day. How it ends will be determined if you spend your entire life chasing after that which is already here or if you stop chasing because it’s realized you‘re already complete…

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Inner Light

Inner light is the true essence of all beings. The only reason there’s darkness is because the light is looked for outer. When there’s awareness of your inner light, it instantly replaces darkness…

There needs to be awareness of the inner light of the heart so the dark places of the mind dissipate. The light is always on just waiting to replace darkness, it never goes out. When you live from the mind the thought realm is allowed to take over and it becomes very difficult to see your inner light. This inner light is what turns away the darkness of an unconscious mind state; this is the world of the outer answers. As long as answers are sought outer, darkness will remain. Darkness creates a world that’s mind based and this is what blocks awareness of inner light. It doesn’t allow for the pure essence of the life to be recognized. It holds onto the belief that life is to be managed so it can be a certain way, but even if the certain way occurs darkness remains because it’s mind based.

Inner light on the other hand is of the heart. When seen it replaces the darkness without effort; as when entering a room and the light is turned on, the darkness is no more. That’s all that’s needed, the light needs to be turned on. Light always replaces darkness, unless one’s bulb is burnt out; this is our path to make sure the inner light is always lit regardless of the surrounding darkness. As your light remains lit, more people from the darkness will see it and be drawn to you. When this occurs it will draw others to you as the light expands. Maybe one day, one light at a time there won’t be any darkness to replace because everyone will see their inner light…