Chattering Mind

A chattering mind won’t quiet on its own regardless of what you believe in. Beliefs hinder the quieting because they’re just a response to mind chatter that blocks you from your inner innocence…

If the chattering mind is in control and running your life it doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to be in a place of innocence. It’s such a chatter filled world and what makes it so is most people are looking for an answer outside themselves when the answer is within. What the chatter actually is and how it’s created is by not being aware that you already have your answers. With a mind that’s conditioned to want answers you have to constantly look for them, hence the mind chatter. This is how the chatter of a Conditioned Mind is formed and how it blocks awareness to your inner innocence. It’s chatter created because if you knew you had your answers the need to look for them would be null and void and so would the mind chatter.

Everyone has the ability to consciously remove the chattering mind, but it’s isn’t something that’s just going to happen on its owns. Isn’t it beautiful that your inner innocence is in your hands and it’s totally up to each individual how much of that innocence is brought into your life. A little practice equates to a little innocence so it’s up to each individual to do what’s necessary to stop the mind chatter. As you practice being in the moment the chattering mind quiets and you’re left with inner innocence. If you are waiting for anything else you’ll be waiting a very long time and it will probably not happen as the chattering mind will remain in control…

Seeing the Lies

A life based in lies can’t be fixed with the same lies. It’s not that truth has to be known to see the lies, but the lies will have to become known so they can stop blocking you from the truth…

The difficulty in explaining truth is because there’s so many made up definitions of it. Instead of trying to prove what truth is, let’s explore what a lie is. A lie is something that has no real facts to its base. Perceptions aren’t factual, they are made up by the perceiver to suit a belief. People ask me about a belief in God, I answer that I know what I know which is based in the facts of what is experienced, and that’s why I share only my experience. I don’t see the benefit of making up a story about something to suit a mind made need. In my case I know love is more beneficial than hate, patience more beneficial than being impatient, kindness is better than being mean, I’ve learned what the blocks are to living a truthful life so it’s of maximum benefit to myself and to all beings. Truth will be known when the lies are understood.

The biggest lie in place is that material things will satisfy you; this is reinforced everyday. It’s an untruth which is at the core of our entire misaligned society. It creates all our issues as a society. Religious sects all claim to have the truth, no facts, just their truth. Politicians try to fix problems based in lies with the same lies. The entire entertainment and sports industry are based in lies that create the false impression of the haves and have nots which creates separation in our society not unity; how can there be truth in that! There’s also the lie of social and career status. Lie after lie after lie and what happens to a society when this is its base, we become a society of liars. Not because we want to and not because we can’t know the truth, but simply because we don’t understand the lies…

"I" Temptation

Temptation arises because “I” wants to satisfy some pleasure it’s making you believe is needed, and it will win out every time until there’s awareness and discipline to stay out of harms way…

If you don’t play with fire you can’t get burned, this is so true when it comes to being tempted. If you can stay out of harms way you will remain safe. It’s so important to not put yourself in harms way when it comes to temptation; it’s done because of the way most minds are conditioned as there’s a lack of awareness and discipline to stand up against temptation for a long period of time. I see this in myself although very slowly my conditioning is losing its grip. So much of our associations are in line with temptations that one should sit with this to see how much control it really has over you. Why this is so is mainly because of the temporary pleasure that’s gotten from giving in to the temptation. Food, alcohol, drugs, sex (alone or with someone) gambling and so on, many things are used to satisfy the sense pleasure and if there isn’t awareness of this, it will be difficult not to get pulled around by the temptation.

For myself temptation was in control my entire life because of never having the awareness or discipline to stay out of harms way. Of course satisfying “I” is at the root of this and whenever a temptation wins out initially it feels good, but it only last until the mind that told you to give in to the temptation poses the question why did you do that. It has taken a few years to finally stop giving in to temptation and it’s only because there’s the awareness of “I” wanting pleasure. Grab that cookie and see how long the satisfaction last; by the way sugar is as addictive as cocaine, maybe more so. The point of this isn’t to say the pleasures of life can’t be enjoyed, but to just watch who is attaching to them and why. See if you’re putting yourself in harms way which reinforces “I” to remain in control. If there’s awareness of this you just may be able to stay out of the harms way and lessen the control “I” has over you so you can truly live life happy, joyous, and free. Free from what, the alluring temptation control of “I”…

Inner State of Love

When love is the energy of your inner state, you emanate transforming energy out to others. Many will pickup on this energy and in the process they will transform. This all occurs because love is the base of what is in you…

Feelings and actions are a result of your inner state and your inner state is very important when it comes thoughts. Your inner state determines so much of what goes on in life because it results in your thoughts. Thoughts from an inner state to self serve produce much different feelings and actions than an inner state of quietness or if you like, love. Attachment becomes the main action when your inner state is to self serve. Thoughts of needing become the constant energy of the self serving inner state. I need energy is what keeps greed, hate, envy, lust, jealousy, anger and whatnot in place and although the needs manifest differently for everyone, the common denominator is I need energy, which makes you own thoughts believe the present moment needs to be different. Attachment has to follow when this occurs because it’s the energy in place.

When the inner state is one of quietness manifesting as love, thoughts naturally fall in line with the complete opposite of being selfishly self serving. It’s as if there’s no thought of you and the feelings and actions are geared towards benefiting others. Not in a way to try and convert others to a concept or belief, but coming from a place of compassion, kindness, understanding, and love. This loving energy is the connection to life itself and it’s this inner state that emanates transforming energy out into the world. Many will pickup on this energy and in the process they will transform. This all occurs because when your inner state is based in love, love is the result of your thoughts…

Understanding Impermanence

When impermanence is understood the need for fulfillment is replaced with a satisfaction that whatever happens doesn’t really matter because one day what happens will prove just how impermanent things are…

Think of the fuss that’s made of the death, it’s the one thing we all have in common and it’s inevitable it will occur. When death is faced for what it truly is one is free, not to die, but to live. Since nobody knows what the future holds what does the future matter if the present isn’t lived to the fullest. It’s often said we can’t really know what’s going to happen, but we all know this, death at least in this form will one day happen, it’s just not known when that will be.

Death is a part of life as much as life itself is and regardless of any belief, one day this body will cease to support life in the form that’s known today. We can make up a place spiritually that we are going to go to when we die, but the body is going to become void of life and it will either be cremated, decay in a box six feet underground or in a vault above ground. If this one truth can be understood than nothing else would truly matter because the impermanence of all things would be known. Once the truth of impermanence is known, life takes on an entirely different dynamic and a mundane view no longer exists.

Everything reached for in life is used as a temporary fix strictly to fulfill some inner craving; this is the reason why one is never truly satisfied. If there wasn’t a craving to be fulfilled, there wouldn’t be a need for a temporary fix. To me this is why impermanence has so much value because when it’s understood the craving for fulfillment is replaced with a satisfaction that whatever happens doesn’t matter much because one day whenever that day may be, what’s happens will prove just how impermanent life really is…

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, but it can stop if it’s realized there’s nothing to chase because you are already complete…

There will be completeness when this happens next, the next fix, the next satisfaction, or the next whatever is used as the chase. 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 chasing. The Conditioned Mind will tell you different and that’s why there’s chasing, but what you really need to ask yourself is who is the one doing the chasing and why. The fictional character of this 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 you 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, but how it ends will be determined by if you spend your entire life chasing that which is already here or if you stop the chasing because it’s realized there’s nothing to chase because you are already complete…

Non Labeled Essence

Made up ideas keep you in a conditioned prison, this blocks you from the stillness of non labeling which allows you to see the conditioned prison cell is open and there’s a beauty to life that only non labeling reveals…

The true essence of nature can only been seen when it’s viewed from a non labeling perspective. Labeling nature does nothing to enhance its beauty. It exist without a label, actually labels limit you from seeing natures beauty because by using labels it becomes an idea and made up ideas are limited. This is how it is with most things that exist naturally in life; they don’t need labels. In the case of a nature, it gets all it needs from the Universe, it doesn’t think about how it can enhance its own beauty, this is a natural process. It’s the same with humans, that is once the made up living begins to slow. No label enhances anything, they’re useful in categorizing things, but this doesn’t enhance the true essence of what’s being labeled.

In stillness all truth is revealed. This is because when the mind is free of made up ideas there’s an unlabeled understanding of things that’s very difficult to explain with words. It’s the reason I often write “it is seen as it is seen” in response to some people who post made up ideas on my articles. No matter how much I try to explain to someone to see what I see, it’s almost impossible, almost. Because of the conditioning in place people have a hard time with someone possibly knowing something that they don’t so they close down and miss the true essence of what’s really happening. As with nature you will know truth when it is seen that something exist without needing to label it. Made up ideas keep you in a conditioned prison, this blocks you from seeing that in the stillness of non labeling there’s no lock on the prison cell and there’s a beauty to life that only non labeling reveals…

Borders of Love

With an unlocked heart things going on around you may not change, but what does change is the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at it from within the borders of love…

I’m sure everyone has heard the expression “the circle of life” but here’s a little different spin on it as “the borders of love”. Think of it as though life is a circle, when you love you’re inside its borders and when you don’t it means you’re living mostly from “I” which automatically puts you beyond the borders. Outside the borders was how the first forty nine years of my life were lived. Occasionally I was within the borders, but not very often and this was because my “I” conditioning kept my heart locked. It’s nearly impossible to enter the borders of love from “I” because “I” is the lock that keeps that heart closed. When you see this, it gives you something tangible to work with which allows the heart to be unlocked, and with an unlocked heart you can be surrounded by the borders of love.

Life and love can be synonymous, but only when you’re within the borders of love and you can only be there when the heart is unlocked and opened. The locks of the world that keeps you outside the circles border are many, it’s as though you’re on the outside of a house looking in through a window. Love unlocks the heart to see things that were previously unseen, and this is what opens you to see as if you’re inside the house looking out. When you’re on the inside looking out it’s because the heart is unlocked. With the heart unlocked it may not change what’s going on around you, but it does change the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at it from within the borders of love…

Inward Majesty

It’s the selfish outward view that keeps you from the vision of seeing your own majesty. This vision of majesty only occurs when your vision comes from a view of looking inside out…

Although no one is more special than another in this existence, there are some who do see things differently than most. What makes this happen is looking inward. I wouldn’t label some as chosen, but I would say some are more inclined to not attach to a selfish view which allows for a clearer vision than if you are in the grip of a mind based view. The two existences I’ve experienced are vastly different, one was in the outward direction where there was much self created suffering. The other the one I’m living now is a view in the inward direction of non attachment. The differences in the two views is the outward view created suffering and was done in unconscious ignorance and the inward view is lived in awareness of the ignorance. Today my view is as it is because the selfish distractions don’t control me as much as they once did; there is still conditioning, I’m just not as controlled by it.

The vision of your own majesty that occurs is a by product of awareness, and as the selfish view is let go of it opens up space to allow wisdom and insight to occur. This opening is directly linked to the letting go of the outward view. It’s the outward view that attaches and it’s the cause of all suffering. Ever so slowing when one begins to look inward the distractions fall away. To me this is what was revealed to the great mystic’s that people considered special, but all they did was look inward. This looking inward is available to everyone, but you will have to overcome the selfish outward view that keeps you distracted from the vision of your own majesty and it will only be seen when you begin to look inward…

Spiritual Rubbish

If you sit you’ll develop discipline so you can watch your thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you’ll see the spiritual rubbish held in the mind…

With the emergence of the social media, there’s so much information available on spirituality that it really needs to be investigated before you consider using it to assist in their development. Here is the definition of rubbish: garbage, trash, nonsense. To see if the information you are using to develop discipline is beneficial, there can’t be anything associated with it that forms attachment. Methods, programs, guru’s, life coaches, teachers, or any other form of rubbish that’s used to keep you attached just keeps you entrapped to the very thing you are trying to break free of. Just as there’s a lot of “fake news” out there today, there’s also a lot of fake information on spirituality. Attachment is not something that’s truly understood by many people and so most of the information out there is rubbish and keeps you in prison in some way. Those telling you to buy their book, pay for retreats run by paid speakers, or follow (instant attachment) a program are clever to a fault, with the fault being keeping you in prison.

The only thing one needs to do is look within so a millisecond of space is created between your thoughts. Once this occurs and there’s awareness of it, slowly there will be more and more space; it takes nothing but awareness to create this space. The rubbish out there that someone’s program, book, method or whatever has your answer will keep you in attached to what you are trying to break free from. I know people defend their so called guru or people they follow adamantly, but it’s only because there’s no awareness of the prison they’re in. Sit often and just watch the thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you will see all the spiritual rubbish you are attached to and the prison you’re in…

Life Stages

The difference between learning from each stage of life and living it to its highest quality or being stuck in a stage where non-beneficial actions are in control, is breaking free from the lie of “I” or remaining its prisoner…

Life happens in stages, at least this has been my experience and you will have to go through these different stages if you’re not to get stuck in whatever stage is in place. Not everyone goes grows beyond a stage that’s in place, some remain stuck for years, even a life time. Although to a point, the stages themselves happen naturally, learning and going to the next stage does not; the quality of a life will be determined by what is learned in a previous or current stage. Life is something that happens on its own, but there is a certain responsibility one has in making it of the highest quality. A simple example of this would be when you were at the stage of your life when it was time to learn to read. If you didn’t take responsibility to learn this, to say that life would be difficult today would be an understatement so at this stage of your life, you did what was necessary to make it of a higher quality.

As I’ve aged over the years I’ve noticed there were many stages in my life, but not all provided the highest quality of living because of the things I did which didn’t allow it. The stages of life will come, but what’s being learned is where maturity comes from. To me the biggest lesson was learning to expose the lie of “I” because that’s what I found was the biggest hurdle in living the highest quality of life possible. It’s not that I’m now all about helping others, but what I learned was life isn’t all about me and what I think and therein lies the difference between learning from each stage, moving forward, and being able to live life to its highest quality or being stuck in a stage where the same non-beneficial actions are repeated again and again…

 

Nonsense or Presence

If the nonsense in the head is the pivot point of your life, it won’t stop because there’s a belief in some unforeseen power. Beliefs hinder the mind’s settling because they create the blocks to inner presence…

If you’re making the nonsense in the head the pivot point of life, it doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to experience inner presence. It’s such a nonsense filled world and what makes it so is most people are looking for an answer outside themselves when the answer is within. What the nonsense actually is and how it’s created is by not being aware you already have your answers.?With a mind that’s conditioned to want answers you have to constantly look for them, hence the nonsense. This is how the agitation of a Conditioned Mind is formed and how it blocks awareness of inner presence. It’s the nonsense created because if it was known you had the answers the need to look for them would be non existent and so would the nonsense.

When you come to the place where you understand this, the nonsense will lessen and inner presence will be experienced. If this isn’t understood, the nonsense will never stop, this is why it’s so important to understand this now. Why wait for later when you can experience presence right now. It’s not like the nonsense is needed to live life, it’s only there because you are unconscious of it. A belief in some unforeseen power won’t make the nonsense go away, it’s up to the individual to do what’s necessary to stop the it. As one practices the nonsense subsides and what’s left is inner presence. If you’re waiting for anything else you’ll be waiting a long time, matter of fact it’ll probably not happen in this lifetime…

Truthful Heart

There’s existence through made up stories and there’s the bigger picture beyond the stories where one is guided and free because there’s the truthful heart of what is…

When the mind is settled existence becomes of truthful instead of reliance on your own limited ideas. There’s a deep truth to the settled mind and it’s in this settling that you see the true existence of life. When you’re in this settled mind state the truthful heart of the Universe quiets the mind agitations which are the cause of all doubt and distrust.

A mind that’s settled allows for you to live from the Universal truthful heart. This connects you with the Godliness of life, your own internal Godliness, and the Godliness of all beings. The connection is already there, it’s just not known what it will take to be aware of it. The only reason there isn’t awareness is because there are conditioned mind agitations blocking the truth from the quietness of the heart; these blocks allow for all kinds of made up stories.

When you learned to discipline an undisciplined mind the mind agitations slowly subside; what naturally remains is a deep unyielding truthful heart; this is what’s beyond the stories of the Conditioned Mind. In this space there’s truthful heart because with a settled mind it’s known who you truly are. See the Universal truth with all your heart and soul and allow the mind to settle so you’re not relying on your own made up stories to live. When there’s awareness of your truthful heart life is lived in the most beneficial of ways; as the beautiful being of truth that you are…

Peace Awareness

Don’t allow anyone to take you from your peace. Let them think they’ve won, their satisfaction will be short lived before needing to win again, but a solid foundation of peace awareness can last a lifetime…

We as humans are all created equal. It’s not that some have weaker minds than others, but some are more aware of themselves and this makes it seem that some have strengths that others don’t possess. The more unaware one is of themselves, the more you will be dragged around by the occurrences that happen in life; peace awareness is what one awakens to. It’s not an awakening to the great secrets of the Universe, but more so what pulls you from peace awareness. I would say in my own case one area where I’ve become more aware is in not allowing other people’s actions to pull me from peace awareness. At times my initial reaction is to get annoyed, but it’s usually realized very quickly that most people know not what they do so to allow their actions to control me is on me. Because all humans come into the world basically the same (unconditioned) it’s the level of conditioning that makes one appear weak or strong, but one is just more aware of their conditioning than another person.

Let the other person think they’ve won, that they’ve gotten the better of you, except to the ego it means nothing; this is how unconscious energy is squashed. This doesn’t change the other person, but it does change you. It stops all the stories associated with the situation which festers as unconsciousness; I’m going to say this to them, or they are wrong, or don’t they know who I am, this is all the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind (ego) and nothing good comes from this energy. So as I said, let the other person think they’ve won, but you will know in your heart what the truth is because by remaining in your place of peace and not giving in to the Conditioned Mind nonsense, form is not in control. After all one can only be taken from their place of peace when it’s allowed and it only occurs when the ego is in control…

Observing Not Judging

The more awareness you have of your own inner awakening determines the depth of observation you have of another’s behavior and the ability to separate the person from the conditioning…

Others can be observed without judgement. The other day I was at an ATM machine when another car pulled up behind me. I was there no more than a minute when the car swung around me so he could go to the walk up ATM. As he pulled in the parking spot for the walk up ATM I was finished and pulled out of the parking lot. As I was leaving, the person was on line for the walk up ATM. I just observed the person’s conditioned reaction, which didn’t accomplish anything. There was no direct judgement of the person, but there was the observation of how they were controlled by a Conditioned Mind which always tells you the grass is greener on the other side; even though we know that’s not true most of the time we are looking for some sort of short cut. Matter of fact we spend most of our life looking for the shortest line, or playing the lottery in hopes we can quit our job, or we wait to enjoy life when our time comes (retirement) or we talk about others, as long as they aren’t in the room. We are constantly looking for the easier softer way; using whatever we have been conditioned to believe that entails.

How aware you are of your own inner awakening will determine the observation of another person’s behavior and being able to separate the person from their conditioning. How a person acts is in direct relation to how they are conditioned so when you can observe the conditioning for what it truly is, you don’t have to take it personal and you don’t have to react to someones behavior. You can separate it from the person and you can continue on the path of emotional maturity: Observing others and the affect emotional immaturity has on people allows you to see a reflection of your own behavior so not to act in an immature manner. You can remain as the observer and not be controlled by your emotions. This observation is really one of looking in a mirror because when you are aware of your own conditioning, you will understand it in others, and when it’s understood in others most of your life will be lived by observing it instead of living in judgement…

Stillness Truth

When the mind is still there’s truth, not the truth of whether it was the chicken or the egg that came first, but the truth of how much people have in common and rely on each other to live…

When the mind made truth is exposed for the lie that it is and the truth that sets one free becomes known, you’ll want to keep expanding on it because the consequences of what will happen if you don’t will be understood; this is the truth of stillness not of the mind that sets you free. The truth of stillness provides neither answers nor question, but it does provide freedom from the made up stories of the Conditioned Mind.

We’re one species, the human one and we’re all the same in regards to how we’re created. Our differences manifest through the way we’re conditioned, but the core of all existence is the same. This conditioning is based in satisfying our ego, our I Self, without it all we would do is love, this is the true essence of every human being on the planet whether it’s known or not; when it’s known a dimension of life is exposed that wasn’t previously seen.

This is our awakening which allows for the understanding of existence, and in the process it opens the door to the understanding of others. It allows for greed, hate, and delusion to fall by the wayside and for compassion to be the minds default setting. If I don’t know me I can’t know you so there’s a need to learn to be still because in stillness truth is revealed. The truth is we as a species have much more in common than is known on the surface and when it’s understood why we do the things that we do and how much we truly rely on each other to live, it would be very difficult for me or anyone else to judge another and be the one to caste the first stone…

Delusional Awakening

Most people live in a made up story of what an awakening is, but for those truly awake what they are awakened to is the delusion the same mind that tells you to do something also questions why it’s done…

All delusions are created by your own mind and until there’s awareness of this the delusions remain. One of the most important things to realize when it comes to breaking free of your delusions is the mind that tells you to do something is the same mind that questions why it’s done. Think about how your mind questions itself so what you’re doing most of the time is arguing with yourself. The insanity of this is it’s almost like there are two entity’s with different perspectives. This goes on in most lives every single day without realizing it, but don’t be fooled by the questioning because even our judgements that aren’t questioned create just as much delusion. To be awake is to be aware of this nonsense.

An awakening isn’t a magical state, all it equates to is becoming aware of the thoughts that hold you in captivity, that’s basically it; awareness aware of awareness. It’s in this awareness that you’ll naturally stop attaching to conditioned captivating thoughts. Being awake doesn’t stop these thoughts from arising, but with awareness of them the nonsense of what happens when there’s attachment to them is seen. Until this is realized the mind that tells you do something will continue to question why it’s done and there will continue to be judgements of others as your own created delusions hold you captive…

Why History Repeats Itself

There’s a reason why one isn’t at peace all the time and it’s because of attaching to the familiarity of the past and allowing the fear of the unknown to keep allowing history to repeat itself…

What keeps the past in place is your fear of the unknown. It’s much easier although not more beneficial to stay in a familiar setting of the past than to venture out into the unknown; it’s your own Conditioned Mind that tells you the familiar is better. Understand this is not truth, it’s a lie, the Buddha called this lie Mara. He would say “I see you Mara” and just like that the lie would give way to truth, but to see the lie you must know the lie, for to not know the lie is to not know the truth. Only the truth can set you free and only if it’s truth based in love; not some story of what you think it is. You will know this truth when the mind is quiet enough and love is revealed; in this truth whatever it is you call evil cannot survive.

Our lack of truth is humanity’s greatest dilemma, not because it’s bad or good, but because it keeps you locked into Conditioned Mind Patterns that makes for the habit of history repeating itself; even if it’s the same mistakes made over and over. To overcome the lie your conditioning has to be overcome. If not the squirrel cage mind will remain in control, the love that can overcome fear will be blocked, you will continue living a lie, and you will continue to repeat the history that is harmful to you and our precious planet. There’s a reason why one isn’t at peace all the time and it’s because of attaching to the familiarity of the past and allowing the fear of the unknown to keep allowing history to repeat itself…

Past Determined Future

You can never have a better future if all you do is allow past Conditioned Mind Patterns to control your life; your predicted future is determined by your past filled thoughts…

Have you ever given much thought to the saying “History repeats itself.” If you look back over time you will see the truth in this statement. I have often said that I’ve only made five mistakes my entire life, but they were made over and over. Why do you think this is? It is because of one reason and one reason alone, a person can only do what they have been conditioned to do and regardless of how the actions are manifested, when it is based in fulfilling some inner self-serving desire the final results will be in the way our world is today. This has to be, it can only change when the past self-serving desire is changed. Don’t take my word for this, investigate this truth for yourself.

We are driven by so many forms of fear that are at the root of this conditioning. Fear of losing a love, fear of gaining a love, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of dying, and probably the most harmful, fear of living. To truly live is to be free of fear. To be controlled by fear is to be controlled by death, not in the physical sense, but by living a life absent of love which allows you to live a life that is free of fear. If you think fear is necessary in any situation that’s your choice, but understand fear will never add to life, it will only take away from it…

Our future can be predicted by looking at the past. If the reason we did what we did in the past isn’t changed, then what we will do in the future will continue to be driven by what we have done in the past. You cannot have a different future if you are living a life controlled by past Conditioned Mind Patterns. Living from the past will always result in history repeating itself; how can it not…

Everything Passes

Life is dynamic, but sometimes things occur that are made into a burden that it’s always going to be this way. This makes one live in the delusion that what’s happening is permanent…

Making something that’s occurring in the moment as if it’s always going to be this way is why one gets swept away by a made up storm. They’re not truly storms, they take on the energy they’re given as if what’s occurring right now is always going to be this way. Once the energy of it’s always going to be this way is seen, the tool of “This too shall pass” can be applied. When one is struggling with something the greatest understanding you can have is that it’s your own mind that creates every obstacle to your inner peace regardless of how life unfolds; if this isn’t understood inner peace will never be had.

All things pass even if they’re made permanent by your mind. This goes for everything including life itself so no matter what it is one day it will not be so. Here is one of my favorite examples of this: If you visit a doctor because you’re not feeling well and are told you have a year to live, do you want to die 365 times or once? A mind that‘s settled can see the truth of this and hence the freedom and value of only dying once. Or not and die everyday until the time comes when conditions that support living in this form are no longer met. We are only visitors here regardless of what happens in life and no matter how tight the hold is to something, it’s temporary and “This too shall pass.”

Illusions of Thought

Separation only occurs if one is controlled by the illusions of thought; unity arises from love not thought. The same mind creates both, but if you think it just occurs you’re stuck in the illusionary world of thought…

In the illusions of thought life isn’t as it appears, the Conditioned Mind constantly tries to create a world of pleasure. This created noise blocks one from seeing their own innate goodness. Creation occurs without permission so when it’s understood that you are a manifestation of Universal Energy and not much else really matters, you become still enough to see creation not as the mind made concept of what is thought, but the true intention to simply love. The only thing that keeps one in a state of unawareness to this love is your own mind.

Stillness breeds truth, truth breeds freedom, freedom breeds clarity and clarity breeds stillness. One day we are in this form and one day just like that we are not; how you spend your time in this current form determines life. If it’s to serve yourself there will never be quietness and it will be very difficult to see truth and find an inner place of peace. If it’s to love from your heart and soul, there will be a quietness that allows an inner place of peace to be discovered; in this place is unity with all beings.

There may not be unity in return, but that’s someone else’s misgiving. Your own unity is what’s important and how this unity with will be known is by how settled your mind is. Unity comes from the heart not the mind, so your unity with all beings is from love and there is only separation from this in the illusionary world of thought…

Trust Life's Plan

Peace is a by product of love, it isn’t something that can be forced to happen. It will only happen when you trust the plan of life to produce it as opposed to trying to force it with your plan…

You can try and force things to happen in your life, or you can trust the plan of life. Trusting the plan produces a much different living arrangement than forcing it. Instead of the constant tugging there is a certain ease when you trust. The tugging is produced directly from trying to force things. Trusting the plan produces the opposite; both are within your grasp. It is a matter of what your intentions are in your life.

You will know what your intention are by what it is you pay attention to. The things you pay attention become the base of life. If you always pay attention to wanting the self gratifying pleasures of life than self serving energy will be your base. If you pay attention to how you can bring more love into the lives of all beings than that energy will be your base. To be free of the self serving mind is to stop trying to force your plan. To cultivate a mind that looks how it can love more produces a life that’s based in trust, and as the saying goes “In God We Trust.” When you stop trying to force your plan, it’s at this point that you will be at peace which is a by product of life’s plan not the plan to fulfill your self serving desires…

Seduction of Being Satisfied

The most important thing to understand about the seduction of being satisfied is the less you’re attached to “I” the less you’ll be seduced, and it’s because without “I” there’s no one who needs satisfaction…

The seduction of being satisfied is so enticing because it actually feels good and this is why the draw is so powerful. There’s only issue with this because of the impermanent nature of being satisfied. It simply will not last, it has no staying power so something else will be needed almost immediately following the attainment of each satisfaction. Think about it, with all the satisfactions that have been attained throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring you 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 seduced by my conditioning to be satisfied, but it was never lasting; the seduction of the next needed satisfaction always arose. This went on all the time, attaining one satisfaction after another, but never really being satisfied.

I’ve come to understand this seduction of being satisfied as the main reason people start using and become addicted to alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, money, tobacco products and an array of other things. If being satisfied wasn’t sought, nothing would be reached for so there would never be an addiction nor an issue; unfortunately the seduction of being satisfied has its way with people. It’s seduction is deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place since our existence began. I know this seduction of being satisfied is what was controlling me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with “I”. Without “I” no one is there to be seduced. Even with this understanding the seduction of being satisfied doesn’t just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me the most important thing to understand about this is, the less one is attached to “I” the less one will be seduced and it’s because without “I” there’s no one who needs the next satisfaction…

Aware of Awareness

If you are alive you are somewhat awake. This is basically true for all beings, but where humans differ from other species is in the ability of being aware of awareness…

A Facebook friend shared a story about a dog he had as a pet once. It seemed the dog actually liked this person, he would hold the dog and it would fall asleep in his arms. It would lick his hand and take food from it. One day as the dog was eating out of a bowl, this person took the food away before the dog was finished, the dog bit and scratched his hand; so much for liking the individual. The dog was awake and realized his food was being taken away, but it ended there. There was no awareness of who was actually taking the food, his food was being taken away and the dog didn’t like it. This is how many humans react to situations, they like people as long as they don’t take away what they like.

For one to get beyond this mindset, there must be awareness of it. This is where we as humans differ. Other species don’t have this ability to be truly aware, but if you look around it seems most humans don’t have this ability either. What will have to happen at some point in your life for this to change is being aware of being aware; noticing what arises when what is liked is taken away or just naturally changes. This is key if you’re not going to be drawn into labeling what’s changing. Suffering comes from not having awareness aware of awareness of what’s changing and being controlled by what is labeled as liked. When there is awareness of what arises you can be conscious of it and not attach to it. What you like will still be taken away at times, but hopefully you won’t bite or scratch when this happens, hopefully, but most likely you probably will…

 

Clinging Lie

Clinging to anything is a prison, but the thing grasped is only the sentence, the prison is the lie the Conditioned Mind creates that tells you what you cling to is needed to make life better…

The reality of our internal and external world is impermanence and because of this when you cling to something there has to be suffering. Suffering is directly related to clinging and how tight the hold is. Impermanence is a natural phenomenon of life that can’t be changed; the only way for the suffering not to occur is to learn how not to cling to things. You can still enjoy all that life has to offer, but if true liberation is to be experienced clinging will have to fall away. I say fall away because many cling to not clinging and thus stay attached to the their suffering. Not clinging isn’t really a doing, it’s why many remain entrapped to the bondage of self. If true liberation is to be experienced, there will have to be awareness of the conditioned ideas, concepts, and beliefs that are in control. Few have the willingness to investigate this because of the conditioning in place to stop this clinging, hence the need to reach for something constantly rears its ugly head.

One clings because the conditioning in place is based in a lie. This lie is what one stops clinging to and that’s how truth is revealed. It’s not a truth that can be explained because the moment it is explained it gets clung to because it becomes an idea, concept, or belief. This is why in stillness truth is revealed. All that I know today and it’s not much has been revealed to me. To truly stop clinging it has to be seen that all that one clings to is a lie. If this isn’t seen the clinging continues along with its associated suffering. This moment needs no idea, concept, or belief to be. If you can see this your clinging naturally lessened because impermanence is understood and it’s realized Now exist free of any lie and without the lie there is simply nothing to cling to…

The Prison of Lies

Whatever is used that you think is needed to provide a false comfort becomes your prison. It’s not right or wrong, but the key is to understand if the lie will truly provide what you think it will…

The biggest misunderstanding there is of my writings is that the view of life I have today is the view I always had. 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; my insights arise from here and it’s the reason why I share what I do. Having lived a lie for so many years has actually become my greatest asset. When I write about something it’s always from a lesson that I learned, it’s never about being smarter or knowing more than anyone else. What’s there is simply what’s there and that’s what’s shared. When I talk about quietness or stillness it’s because I lived the lie of noise. When there’s talk of attachment, it’s because the lie of attachment was my prison.

Everyone who is alive experiences life, it’s what’s done with the experience that determines if it’s a prison or not. An example is if you think you need to have money to be happy, that will be your prison. It’s not right or wrong, but the key is to understand if the thing will provide what you think it will. Deep down inside having money doesn’t change you; substitute money with anything. For me I went through a life of much suffering, always in prison to what my Conditioned Mind made me believe was needed; today I see this for the lie that it is. When I write something, it’s because I can see the self serving prison I was stuck in; today I have been provided with awareness of the lie. I’m very direct in my approach, but I’m not insensitive to anyone else’s view, it’s just that I’ve been where most people are and I can see the lies that far too many think is truth…

Urged Difficulties

Existence isn’t a made up perfection where it’s always the way one thinks it should be. Whatever arises has to be accepted exactly as it is with seeing the perfection even when there are urges to want things different…

Being human means having urges. Unless there’s acceptance of this without needing things to be a certain way so you can get a better seat in heaven or move up on the angelic chain of command, life will seem to always have some kind of struggle associated with it. One of the common traits I notice when I talk to people about the Conditioned Mind is not accepting themselves exactly as they are with a self imposed label of guilt applied . There are so many conditioned urges ingrained in us and if they’re not accepted as they arise you’ll live a struggled existence; needing those urges to be different than what they are.

Accept yourself in each moment urges and all and just watch as they arise. This isn’t a right or wrong thing it’s just part of being human and it has to be accepted if there’s to be peace in one’s life. There’s always a lot of opinionated energy all around and it will cause much suffering as there will be urges for life to play out the way one wants it. This wanting usually manifest as individual energy, but it will be both individual and collective energy if some things aren’t accepted as they are; it’s because opinionated urges are in control and wants different results. Anything that happens has to be accepted as it is if there is to be at peace. This is a made up difficulty because things occur and because of being human an attached label is applied to what arises as being unpleasant. This makes you want whatever arises to be different and as long as your energy doesn’t accept your urge filled humanness as it is, peace will never be had…

Good or Evil

The mind is very simple to understand, it can be broken down into two states, good and evil; everyone who is alive will be guided by one or the other…

There’s a lot of noise that goes on between the ears that determines what mind state you will be guided by; when it’s broken down you will be guided by good or evil. The results of living in a mind state of good or evil are vastly different. This isn’t to apply a label that one is right and one is wrong, but if investigated it can be seen how a good mind state produces results aligned with love, kindness, peace, harmony, joy, and evil aligns you with results of anger, greed, hate, unhappiness, discontent and so on. I had a mind state of evil for many years and this resulted in much suffering in the form of selfishness. As a result of this, I used many different things to satisfy this, but to no avail because not matter what the selfish evil mind state attained it was never enough.

Thirteen years ago I began understanding the different results of these two mind states and started developing certain things that put me more in line with good. A evil mind is selfish in nature and produces selfish results; desirable results of the material world. A mind of good has no need for selfishness and the results are accordingly. This doesn’t mean the selfish conditioning is gone for good, but it has lessened to a large degree and hence there is literally no more hate in me. If the difference of these two mind states aren’t seen it seems the evil state controls more; it’s because of the influences of the cabal world that make this so. Even though by being alive you are part of the world, when you finally wake up what you see is you don’t have to allow the selfish evil mind state to control you…