Delusional Attachments

Understanding the nature of delusion is an attribute of waking up, but it’s not the delusion of the world that you get entrapped to, it’s the delusion that runs your own life…

Most people are unaware of the delusion that runs their life; this delusion manifest as one attaches to their thoughts. The first thought about something is inconsequential, it’s the attachment to the second thought that forms the delusion. To understand delusion there must be awareness of attachments, desires, confusions, and the way your mind works, without this the puppet on string pattern prevails. Certain practices turn you inward to see this, if what you’re doing doesn’t turn you inward you’ll remain entrapped to your delusional state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the delusion. A broken mind can’t fix itself and as long as it’s reaching for something on the outside it remains trying to fix itself and thus it remains broken. Until this truth is seen things have to stay as they are because nothing is being done to change it.

We can only know what we know if there’s awareness of it. What this means is you have to develop mindfulness of what you’re doing as it’s being done so there’s awareness of what is being done. If you know what you’re doing as you’re doing it, it leaves little room for delusion to arise. Mindfulness is probably the most important discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment that what is being done occurs. Delusion only occurs when you live in the story that there’s a past or future. These mind made constructs keep the delusion alive. The present moment can be seen without making a story, even though it passes as quickly as it arises, but the past and future can never truly be seen without a story. Because most people lack the discipline to be present, most lives are lived in a delusional state of existence…