Blind Mind State

Life will always be life and it will always be as it is, but you don’t have to be in a blind mind state where you’re not mindful of what’s actually happening…

To be mindful is to be non reactive in the present moment to what is happening while it is happening. Life doesn’t have any specific effect on a person, its effect is directly link to the conditioning the person has in place; this is why one blindly reacts to what happens the way they do. This reactivity is blindly in place for everyone, it just manifest in different ways. The quality of how mindful one is of what’s happening while it’s happening determines the reactivity to it. Before something occurs there’s the space of stillness that it arises from. If you’re already in a blind state of anger when the next thing arises, the reaction is immediately laced with anger. If you’re in a mindfulness state of love or quietness and the same thing takes place, the reactivity to it will be much different. The key here is to pay attention to things that are skillful and conducive to your well being. This is not always easy to see because of the conditioning. Many of our reactions aren’t really skillful or conducive to our well being, but they’re blindly done anyway because that’s what’s in place. Until there’s awareness of this these reactions will be repeated over and over.

You’re always in the present moment whether you’re mindful of it or not. When you’re not mindful, this is when what arises blindly grabs hold of you. It’s one of the reasons the Buddha said “Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts” because the unguarded thoughts blindly control you as if you were a puppet on a string. Stillness of each moment is where everything arises from so if you’re in harmony with this, what arises will have less of an effect on you. Life is life and it will always be as it is, but you don’t have to be in a blind mind state where you’re not mindful of what’s actually happening…