Understanding Conditioning

If there isn’t some sort of quietness in one’s life, the Conditioned Mind will run the show, and although life will be lived because you are alive, it will mostly be so in a state of unconscious suffering.

If the root cause of why one behaves as they do isn’t understood, one will never get beyond it. This understanding is what has led to my waking up from a sleeping walking state that kept me entrapped to causing my own suffering; not intentional, but I suffered nonetheless. This has to be understood in order to alleviate the mechanisms in place that cause it. Suffering is caused by an unconscious conditioned mind state and unless this conditioning ceases to exist the behavior results have to follow. Every effect is because something causes it and this occurs whether the cause is understood or not.

The importance of learning what the Conditioned Mind is enough, it’s truly life altering, but only if it’s deeply understood. One’s life cannot be anything but what the conditioning in place dictates it to be. Every life is made to be what it is, this is why sitting is necessary to allow the mind to settle. If there isn’t some sort of quietness in one’s life, the Conditioned Mind will run the show and although life will be lived because you are alive, it will mostly be so in a state of unconscious suffering. As subtle as it may be, a mind conditioned to suffer will always do so because it’s what’s in place. Change the conditioning, change what’s in place, and that’s when one’s behavior will change.