Surface View

If you can develop some awareness of inner stillness, the surface view will have less control as your mind distractions subside; without these distractions you will never have a need to reach for anything…

If you’re always seeing life from the surface view of what the eyes see, what is seen will be judged accordingly and what’s going on beneath the surface will not be noticed. Although with an surface minded view life still goes on, but it’s very limited almost to the point of being delusional; I say this because it’s how I lived for forty nine years and it caused my life to be a constant struggle. The constant struggle was self created and controlled by the surface view, although this wasn’t understood at the time. A surface view is one where there‘s constant reaching and the reaching is caused by the mind distractions which aren’t seen. This is why someone will reach for something without giving it much thought regardless if it’s beneficial or not. In that moment the Conditioned Mind declares it beneficial, but this is a big fat lie.

The surface view will only be noticed when the Conditioned Mind stops its incessant distractions. You will have to be able to just be for the distractions to subside; you will not see the essence of the forest from the trees if the mind is distracted from being focused on the forest. This surface view is strictly mind based, hence the reason it’s not conducive to your well being; there are so many things on the surface to cause distractions 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 view will be in control because the mind distractions will subside. It will be at this point that the need to reach for something will be lessened as it’s probably the first time in your life that the surface view has taken a back seat…