Made Up Problems

The Conditioned Mind loves to make up problems and until this is seen it will continue to do so even though everything in life is temporary, especially the Conditioned Mind problems that are made up…

Problems are made up by a Conditioned Mind that doesn’t accept what’s occurring in the present moment. It wants the present moment different and it actually makes you think if it was different all would be well; this is the lie of the Conditioned Mind. All is well right now, but because of the Conditioned Mind it’s not seen so a problem is made up just so there’s something to do. I always had a tendency to make everything that occurs a problem and although I don’t attach to this as I once did, many times the made up problem view is my first reaction.

There other day I was washing clothes and I put them in the dryer. When they were almost finished drying, I opened the dryer to pull out a shirt, there were red spots on it and also on some of the other clothes. I pulled them all out and found a pen in the dryer. There was also red ink all over the dryer. My first response was this usual this is a problem reaction, the clothes are ruined. I took a step back and took a deep breath. I grabbed a shirt and cleaned a spot, the ink came out. I then cleaned the inside of dryer. I rewashed all the clothes and an two hours later it was as if nothing had happened. I don’t concern myself too much with my reactions anymore, the attachment to what occurs is what I watch now. The clothes can be substituted with anything. The Conditioned Mind loves to make up problems, and until this is seen it will continue to do so even though nothing is truly a problem because everything passes; that is if the mind sees just how conditioned it is…