Beyond Objects

If you can develop some awareness of inner stillness, the surface perspective will have less control as your mind agitations subside, and without these agitations you’ll never have a need to reach for anything…

If you’re always seeing life from the surface perspective of objects the eyes see, those objects will be judged accordingly and what’s going on in the beneath the surface to form those judgments will not be noticed. Although with an surface minded perspective life still goes on, it’s just very limited almost to the point of being purely superficial; I know this from experience. The superficial existence was self created and was controlled by the surface perspective; although this wasn’t understood at the time. An object perspective life is one where there is constant reaching and the reaching is caused by the surface created mind agitations which aren’t seen. This is why someone will reach for anything without giving it much thought regardless if it’s beneficial or not. In that moment the Conditioned Mind deems it beneficial, but this is a big fat lie.

The beneath the surface perspective will only be noticed when the mind stops its incessant busyness. You will have to be able to just be for the busyness to subside; you will not see the essence of the forest from the trees if the mind is busy focusing on the trees. This surface perspective is strictly mind based, hence the reason it’s not conducive to your well being is it’s unstable, as there are so many objects to see, one right after another. This is why the big fat lie is in the forefront of most lives and stillness takes a back seat. If you can develop some awareness of inner stillness, less and less the surface perspective will be in control because the mind agitations will subside. It will be at this point that the need to reach for something will be no more and it will probably be the first time in your life that this has happened…