Justified Conditioning

Not justifying everything that’s done creates the slightest of cracks in your conditioned armor. This allows a sliver of awareness in to change the way things are looked at…

Awareness can be described as noticing the different mental factors that arise in each moment. It doesn’t prevent what arises or what happens, but it can lessen the reactions and some of the consequences associated with what arises, but only if there’s awareness and no attachment. Nothing inherently on its own causes problems for anyone. Alcohol has never poured itself down someone’s throat, it has to be reached for. Heroin never forced anyone to put a needle in their arm, same reaching. It’s the individual alone who reaches for something; this goes for anything. Granted most of this self harming reaching is done blindly, but I do what I do today to try and shed light on this. I know a thing or two about this blind reaching because I did it for forty nine years.

So many things blindly controlled me, until there was awareness of this the reaching continued its onslaught of control. How this reaching gets deeply engrained is by justifying everything that’s done. From pointing out the faults of others, to being nasty to people, slander, and so many other justified behaviors, all they do is keep the conditioned mindset in place. Awareness this is being done is the first step in breaking the chains of your conditioning. Stop looking out there for answers, stop blaming and talking about others, in other words stop justifying everything you do as being right and this just may create the slightest of cracks in your conditioned armor which may allow a sliver of awareness in to change the way you look at things. After all, if the way one blindly looks at things doesn’t change, the onslaught of being conditionally controlled will remain…