Selfish Mind Chatter

Selfish mind chatter won’t quiet on its own regardless of what your belief system is. Beliefs hinder the quieting because they’re just a response to selfish mind chatter that blocks truth…

If your selfish mind chatter is in control and running your life, it doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to see truth. It’s such a selfish world and what makes it so is most people are focused on outward answers to satisfy themselves. What the selfishness actually is and how it’s created is by not being aware that you already have your answers and there’s no need to seek. It’s such a selfish world and what makes it so is most people are selfishly looking for answers for self satisfaction. What the chatter actually is and how it’s created is by not being aware of this. With a mind that’s conditioned to want satisfaction, you have to constantly look for it, hence the selfish chatter. This is how the selfish chatter of a Conditioned Mind is formed and how it blocks awareness of truth. It’s selfish chatter created because if you knew you were already satisfied the need to look for it would be non existent and so would the selfish chatter.

Everyone has the ability to consciously remove the selfish mind chatter, but it’s not something that’s going to happen on its owns. It‘s beautiful that to see truth is up to you. A little practice equates to a little truth so it’s up to each individual to do what’s necessary to stop the selfish mind chatter. As you practice being in the moment the selfish mind quiets and you’re left with truth. If you’re waiting for anything else you’ll be waiting a very long time as your selfish mind chatter will never allow you to see the truth…

Conditioned Cravings

All cravings are conditioned driven, it matters little to life or the Universe whether those cravings are fulfilled or not. You can make up a story fulfilling your cravings matters, but that’s your story…

You can crave for things to be a certain way, but to life this doesn’t really matter. Life isn’t a respecter of cravings, it will allow things for its betterment at times. If you’re one of the instruments which are being used in this capacity you’re truly blessed because you are probably assisting others in a unique way. This doesn’t make you special, but it does allow you to be free of the self-centeredness that holds most of the world in captivity. Cravings are conditioned driven, it matters little to life or the Universe whether they’re fulfilled or not. You can make up a story fulfilling your wants matters, but that’s your story not life’s. Fulfill every craving in your life and at the end of it you will have exactly what you would’ve had had no craving been fulfilled. Again: Fulfill every craving in your life and at the end of it you will have exactly what you would’ve had if no craving was fulfilled.

It always makes me laugh when I’m watching a game and a player does something good, it’s always followed up by pointing upward as if something is watching and cares more about that person as opposed to the opposition. What happens when the other team loses, which is inevitable, I’m waiting for the day when a team loses and points downward. All these stories mean nothing to the Universe, regardless if they seem to work out or not, they are just stories. Who’s suppose to answer them anyway, God, good luck with that. Things will always work out the way they work out; the Universe (life) doesn’t really care if they do or don’t. Cravings are only held onto because they’re thought to be needed, but because life isn’t a respecter of cravings, suffering occurs because that’s what you not life has in place…

Deep Rooted Reactions

Most reactions that occur in life are deeply rooted and are put in place by your own conditioning. If your life isn’t lived to its fullest potential of love it’s your own deep rooted ideas that are blocking it from being so…

Although things appear to be a certain way it’s not always as it seems. It’s difficult to see beyond your own mind when deep rooted ideas are brought into play. So much of what the mind holds onto becomes deeply rooted and is put in storage to be used at particular times; this is how most lives are lived. It’s as though we already have in place the way things are going to be handled; deep rooted reactions are formed in this way. They’re all based on putting things in a certain place so deep rooted actions are triggered.

This goes on constantly because the Conditioned Mind makes it so. If you had no previous conditioning, deep rooted reactions wouldn’t arise, but this is not the case. One of the keys to not living a deep rooted conditioned life is to a develop some way to be anchored in the present. This is important because the more you’re present the more you’re with what life has to offer. When this occurs there’s peace because the deep rooted ideas put in place by the Conditioned Mind are no longer making you react to things because they need to be different than what they are…

Useless Tools

There’s an energy that occurs in life that keeps useless tools in place without investigating them. The issue with this is how these useless tools are passed on to others…

If there are useless actions and reactions in your daily decision making process without investigation, there will be many decisions made without knowing what is truly useful. When these tools are passed on to others it equates to the blind leading the blind; very few people truly understand the Conditioned Mind. Without the discipline that provides some stillness, useless energy is followed simply because it’s in place. To the Conditioned Mind there’s no need for questions because it has all the answers. Saying I’m not there yet is just crazy and it’s a created block that hampers the ability to live in a useful way. If you’re not there yet wherever there is, you will never get there. What amazes me is how people settle for a place just because it’s comfortable and someone else says it’s useful.

To me it’s just mind boggling how a person holds onto what is useless and doesn’t even consider there might be another way to see things. What’s mind boggling about this is how this useless energy keeps you in a self created prison that causes suffering; life doesn’t cause suffering the useless Conditioned Mind does. Unless you’re willing to sit and allow the mind to settle, the useless energy of the Conditioned Mind will remain in place and you’ll continue to use useless non beneficial tools that cause suffering. Here’s the real issue with this, these tools are passed onto others and this makes it as though the blind are leading the blind…

Awakened Opportunities

The more awake you are for life the more it cooperates with you. This doesn’t mean everything will be as you want it, but what happens is the opportunity for there to be cooperation increases…

Life will occur whether you are awake to see what is happening or not. What an awakening affords a person is the opportunity for a different reaction to what arises and thus a different outcome. It’s a given that what arises arises, there’s no much that can be done in that regard, but with how it affects has presents different opportunities. Years ago there weren’t many opportunities for my reactions to be different. They were all based in a very limiting self serving perspective; this was just the way I was conditioned. I wouldn’t have allowed anyone to do half of the things I did to myself, but yet because I didn’t know any better lo and behold destructive reactions were normal for me. Without an awakening of the conditioning in place the opportunity for anything to be different was non existent…

Although today life is still life and what arises, arises, without the self serving view not being as prevalent as it once was, it has opened up so many more opportunities in my life. What’s truly beautiful about this is my destructive reactions are less and less; on their own. Being aware of the way you react to what happens is where opportunities to be different arise from. When you’re stuck in one view, you‘re limited to that view and the opportunity of reaching your full potential is iffy at best. The more you’re in harmony with life the more life cooperates with you. This doesn’t mean everything will be perfect or go the way you think it should, but the imperfections (only because of a self serving view) won’t limit your opportunities…

One Conscious Breath

One conscious breath is all that’s needed for the Universe to connect with the love of your heart. This breath is how the energy of love will make you and the entire world different…

If it was possible to take one conscious breath before every response the world would be so different. Sit with this breath and envision it. I know my conditioned responses led to most of the problems I had with people and with life itself. Life and people do their thing and I responded accordingly. Today the responses are much more conducive to harmony because there is usually a breath taken between the response and my reaction. It wasn’t always this way and it isn’t this way all the time, but it’s becoming more and more the way of many of my reactions because of this breath, but like I said not always, but more often than not.

One breath happens consciously because of the discipline developed by sitting. What this does is it stops the Conditioned Mind from automatic responses based on a self-serving mind; a breath allows for the possibility of those patterns to be broken. When this occurs it opens the heart to the truth that sets you free. Self serving reactions will not fall away on their own, it will take much sitting to develop the necessary discipline for a breath to occur. All it takes is one conscious breath for not only your existence to become different, but also the entire world. When responses to life are from this breath, they arise from the energy of love and slowly but surely the world responds with love. This has to occur, it’s the law of love and all it takes is one conscious breath…

The Initial Nudge

An awakening can be likened to a snowball on a hill. Nothing else is needed than the initial nudge to get it rolling, and it will just keep on building momentum until something stops it…

Once a snowball is placed at the top of a hill and it’s nudged ever so slightly, it naturally begins rolling in the only direction it can go and its momentum builds without one ounce of doing. It does take some effort for the initial nudge to get it going, but not much more than a little nudge. It’s this way when one wakes up from the sleep of unconsciousness, there’s not much that needs to be done for the awakening to expand, as a matter of fact most people don’t wake up fully because of trying to hard. If you’re awake the nudge has already occurred so all effort is futile. There’s so many books, programs, videos, and whatnot and although they make one knowledgeable, none of it makes you anymore awake than the initial nudge.

This is one of the reasons I emphasis using the body as an anchor in the awakening process, because it doesn’t take effort, it only takes being with what’s actually here, which is the present moment. All kinds of stories can be made up about what needs to be done, but it doesn’t expand the initial nudge one bit. Either you’re awake in the quietness of the present moment or you’re asleep in the noise of the past or future. The initial nudge is what reveals this truth. As with the snowball, nothing else is needed than the initial nudge to get it rolling, and it will just keep on building momentum until something gets in the way to stop it…

Inner Turmoil

Inner turmoil arises from the need to question. Without discipline the mind that’s full of questions will never get satisfactory answers so you’ll have to look externally and experience constant turmoil…

Inner turmoil is ego based because they come from the Conditioned Mind. If you’re internally in turmoil with what’s written here, that arises from within you; words don’t cause turmoil. It doesn’t matter if you agree with this or not, just understand if there’s inner turmoil it comes from within you, not from what’s written. We love to blame others for our own self created turmoil. The only reason it’s even there is because of the lack of understanding of your own mind.

Nothing causes inner turmoil unless it’s allowed. If you can change something by all means change it. If it’s being changed just because you don’t like it, it needs to be looked at why there’s turmoil to begin with, because even if the thing is changed, you’ll just move onto the next thing that will cause you turmoil once again.

For me it has been through the practice of discipline that real answers have arisen. I can’t have anyone else’s answers because the one who questions is the one who has the answer. I don’t have your answer because I don’t have your question. Truth is the same for all beings, but how we come to its understanding is within ourselves. When one sits in stillness, revealed are answers. This is when inner turmoil with yourself and with the world will be no more…

Upside Down View

Accepting everything as it is seems like a very tall order, but the alternative is to not accept it and look at things from an upside down view (wanting things different) and in the process cause your own suffering…

Nothing stays the same so it’s not the changes that occur in life that throw you for a loop, it’s the upside down thinking that things will always be a certain way. This is what makes changes much more difficult to accept. If everything could be accepted as it is you would never be thrown for a loop because the upside down thinking that tells you things should remain as they are wouldn’t occur. Accepting everything as it is seems like a very tall order, but the alternative is to not accept it and look at things from an upside down view and in the process cause your own suffering…

For one to get beyond their upside down thinking, it has to be innerstood that it’s your own mind that’s causing it. Life is seen through the way it’s created and it’s created through how it’s viewed. Why a view is considered upside down is because of how rigid the mindset is when changes occur and it isn’t accepted. This rigidness keeps the mind closed to the conditioning that sees things upside down; if this conditioning isn’t changed nor will the upside down thinking change. It’s not that right side thinking needs to be implemented, all that’s needed is to be aware of the upside down thinking. Awareness is key in change because it allows for acceptance and when the world can be accepted as it is, good, bad, or indifferent, then just maybe one can think in a way that’s beneficial…

Losing Old Conditioning

Although your old conditioning may be firmly in place and it may be true that you don’t know what’s new, if this isn’t investigated the only thing you will know will be the old…

A snake sheds its skin because it’s growing. If the current skin doesn’t fall away, growth will not occur. It’s the same with us, just substitute the skin of the snake with our conditioning. Life is a natural process of learning and growing, but the base of growth is dependent on seeing the new that’s replacing the old. For years I drove an old car and was constantly repairing it just to keep it drivable. This is the way many people live their life. Constantly making adjustments and repairs just to keep it running; not truly live. It wasn’t until I purchased a new car that it was realized just how broken down the old one was. This goes with the saying “You don’t know what you don’t know” this is also what happened to me when I finally let go of the conditioning in place. I started realizing just how out of sorts my thinking was; I began the process of shedding my conditioning per se.

Although learning is a natural process of life, learning to grow spiritually is not automatic. It does seem to take some effort even if it’s only the willingness to head in a certain direction. There are many intellects in the world who don’t have a clue as to what it means to live in the space of spiritual growth; they never seem to shed their conditioning. The mind loves the familiar and will always try to convince you it’s better to stay in the old skin instead of going into a new one. It may be true that you don’t know what’s new, but if this isn’t investigated the only thing you will know is the old. And because nothing new is being allowed in, your conditioning will remain in place and new skin (growth) will not be allowed to occur…

Repetitive Thoughts

If you keep allowing the past thoughts to repeat in the present the past will be where you live your life. This is unfortunate because it doesn’t allow the future to truly be experienced…

The amount of times you repeat a thought that causes emotional pain is mind boggling because it’s your own mind that does this; it probably happens thousands of times throughout your life. This is why most people suffer endlessly because what happened in the past is repeated in the present and although the body is always in the present moment, the mind is constantly somewhere else. This is the constant state most people live their life from and if nothing is done to change this the mind will repeat thoughts until existence in this form ends. This isn’t a philosophy or theory, nor is it something I made up, you only need to look at this for yourself to see this truth. If you don’t you’ll remain stuck repeating your thoughts without a way out.

As a species we seem to be lost in this repetitive thought mode and it’s because looking at ourselves in an investigative way is not something that many people are willing to do. It’s so much easier to point the finger at someone else, but unfortunately when you point your finger there’s three pointing back at you; check this to see its truth. You can ignore this and keep repeating the thoughts everything will work out on its own or you can take control of your life to some extent and stop attaching to the repetitive thoughts that cause your own suffering. After all the same thoughts are constantly repeated, but if they’re not attached to eventually they’ll stop and so will the repeated emotional suffering they cause…

A Direction Within

Our answers are always within, one just needs to make sure you’re heading in that direction so what you’re doing is beneficial to your life…

Looking back I can see I had a definite direction I wanted my life to go when I begin the study of my own mind. There weren’t any lofty goals to achieve anything or to make my life about something in particular, all I wanted was a direction that provided a peace that eluded me for most of my life. This is still my direction today, but just because one is on a so called spiritual path, it doesn’t mean the direction you’re heading is beneficial to you. I did things for years that I was told were right and it turned out not to be so beneficial; these things actually kept me in bondage. I won’t go into details, but what I do today is beneficial and how I know this is because I’m at peace and don’t have a real desire for anything else. I have passion in my heart for things, but not an aching because I need this moment to be different. I’m not looking for anything, that’s how I know the direction is beneficial.

You may be reading all the books, quoting all the right people, and putting all your energy into that direction, but the question is can you stop it all and still be at peace. If not your direction is only being used as a distraction. I was distracted for forty nine years so I know what I’m talking about. If you’re not at peace, your direction isn’t working. All things are pointers, but the misdirection is in thinking the pointers are the answers. The answers are always within, one just needs to make sure you’re heading in that direction so what you do is beneficial to your life…

Uncluttered Mind State

When one awakens, an uncluttered mind state is provided which allows a clear view of your actions. With this uncluttered mind state you become aware if the affects of your actions are truly beneficial…

Having an uncluttered mind state allows for the ability to decipher the immediate affect of your actions and your current view. A uncluttered mind state doesn’t allow a greed, hate, and delusion mind state to arise. In seeing the affects of greed, hate, and delusion for what they are and their controlling characteristics, you just may be able to pause them for a millisecond. If this isn’t seen these characteristics will continue their monkey mind control.

Observe the different mind states which are greed, hate and delusion and their polar opposites, generosity, love, and wisdom. These are the cluttered and uncluttered mind states most people fluctuate between. With an uncluttered mind state you see how your actions and the associated actions are linked. What happens first is one can decipher the mind state associated with one’s action, and second it’s seen if the action is beneficial. It’s very easy to see anger and its association with the mind state of hate. It doesn’t take much intelligence to see how this action isn’t beneficial to anyone. Without awareness of this one remains entrapped to the mind state of hate and hence the associated actions. Intelligence has no bearing on this whatsoever.

It also works this way with the action of giving. Giving with no attached expectations is an action associated with the mind state of generosity. You can definitely see how this action benefits everyone; to me this is what an awakening is. One isn’t rendered white as snow because of becoming awake. No one among us can cast the first stone, but by the mind settling your view becomes uncluttered and you become aware of your actions and the associated mind state of those actions. It can then be seen your actions are truly a benefit not only to yourself, but to all beings…

Addicted to Thoughts

If there’s awareness of the thoughts you have about yourself you just may be able to settle in a place where your emotions aren’t in control. You may even realize life isn’t really about you, you just have a thought it is…

As long as you’re alive life happens, actually life happens even if you’re not alive there just isn’t awareness of it. Life isn’t really about what happens as much as it’s about how much you relate your thoughts about what happens. This is where the conditioning steps in and determines the relation to what happens next. It can be of love, it can be of hate, but for most it teeters between the two. Very few go to the extreme of either one of these emotions so the results for most humans are balanced. When these emotions do hit an extreme level the results are very noticeable and this is all contingent on how much you’re conditioned to have thoughts about yourself; these thoughts are what manifest as emotions. If you had love as the main thoughts in your life, obviously you will love more than a person who has hate thoughts. This all arises from inside the individual so if you truly notice the base of your actions, you may be able to alter those actions instead of relying on divine intervention which will probably not occur. It will take some practice to allow the mind to settle so this is noticed.

The addiction in society is attachment to thoughts and when you’re the main subject of those thoughts, it makes your existence very irrational. Now multiply this by billions of people and hence you have the world we live in; billions of people constantly having thoughts about themselves strictly for personal gain. There’s no one to blame for this because it arises from within each of us. From the mass murderer to the person who is a people pleaser, it’s the thoughts that causes extreme emotions and everything else in between. So sit often with the intention of developing the ability to notice your thoughts about yourself and you just may be able to settle in a place where your emotions aren’t in control. And hopefully you’ll come to the realization life isn’t really about you, you just have a thought it is…

Mind Content

If you don’t take responsibility for the content of your mind, there are plenty of influences that will do it for you. Whatever is thought about frequently becomes the inclination of your mind…

Our minds are more like water than something solid like concrete. What happens is sometimes it gets frozen and becomes solid. Also water takes the shape of whatever container it’s in and that’s exactly what happens to an unconscious mind; in this case the container is whatever one attaches to. The key when it comes to the mind is to make sure it’s in a container that’s based in love. Water is influenced by many things, tides, wind, weather, and so on, and so is the mind influenced by many things. When there’s awareness of this the mind is somewhat less influenced; it’s totally influenced when there isn’t awareness. The Conditioned Mind will say jump and you will jump, and depending on the conditioning you may even ask how high. If you don’t take responsibility for the content of your mind there are plenty of influences that will do it for you.

Look at the politics here in the USA. See how individuals have influence over so many unconscious minds, and regardless of who you’re for, it’s been allowed to let them influence the content of many minds. This now becomes the container for whoever you are for or against and your mind will act accordingly. Even though it seems like this was a choice, there really wasn’t. The question of any influence is it based in love? Whatever is thought about frequently becomes the inclination of the mind; it has to because that’s how it’s conditioned. This article is strictly to be viewed to see how all of this limits you and to possibly allow you to see what container (attachment) is establishing the content of your mind…

Mind Hunger

Although fulfilling sense pleasures takes on many forms, it’s the hunger of the mind that makes one seek them. This hunger can only be satisfied in stillness, because when the mind is still there is no hunger…

One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it hungers in the pleasure seeking mode most of the time. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse form of pleasure. The mind wants to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasant ones; it spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up to the same light, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it, the reason for the doing is strictly to fulfill the hunger of pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of the way it has been conditioned to fulfill a pleasure hunger craving.

The hunger to fulfill your sought after pleasures does not have your best interest at heart, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes the hunger to seek pleasure a false necessity, but when the mind starts to settle and it loses its grip on you, you will see the fallacy of this. True pleasure is in stillness not in things, but the pleasure of stillness is not the same pleasure that you hunger. The pleasure to fulfill a hunger is based in lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. The parable in the bible speaks of satisfying a hunger that only God (stillness) can satisfy. This hunger is the self seeking pleasure of the Conditioned Mind, this is the hunger created. It’s only in stillness that this hunger is satisfied, not because it’s given something, but because in stillness hunger never materializes so there is nothing to fulfill…

Two Certainties

From the time existence in this form begins change begins. Some change is glaring and some is subtle; it mostly happens without permission. How this change is adjusted to determines how life unfolds…

There are some certainties that will happen in life no matter how much one tries to avoid them. One of these certainties is the end of existence in this current form. And the other is things will change no matter how much you try to keep them a certain way; both of these are inevitable. There is no way around these two things. The difference is one happens once and when it occurs it will never be repeated as we know of. The other happens constantly and is repeated over and over. From the time existence in this form begins, change happens. Some is glaring and some is very subtle, but it happens whether you want it to or not.

Each day most of our waking hours are spent trying to arrange the day to our liking, but the only problem with this is most of our day is wasted trying to arrange the day to our liking. This occurs because we’ve been conditioned to believe there is an entity that needs things to be different. This conditioning keeps the mind addicted to a constant state of agitation. When the mind is agitated, it will use its developed tools, not to quiet the agitation, but to distract from them. The distractions in this case manifest as Conditioned Mind Patterns that are constantly trying to arrange life to satisfy this false entity. When this is seen whether change occurs once or is constant, it’s simply allowed because there’s no entity that minds the change that‘s happening…

Sensory Self Prison

The senses are directly linked to the prison of self. If you really want to understand your life from the spiritual realm, you’ll have to get very quiet and become aware of how subtle the prison of self is…

Through the senses life is labeled, and those labels are constantly applied. Everything is judged, even labeling a pencil on the desk is a judgment. Not a harmful one, but a judgment just the same. When you learn not to label you can become aware of the distractions that keep you from going beyond the prison of self. With this new awareness your mind finally settles enough to notice the deeper view. This is the initial awareness, but it will require much more practice to go deeper yet. The deeper you go, the more you will have to let go of the which is the sensory. And the more the sensory world is let go of, the more you will understand the deeper view and the freer you will be.

The only reason life is viewed from self by so many people is because there isn’t awareness of quietness that’s necessary to view it differently. This isn’t something that is right or wrong, but it is limiting. Without the discipline to understand the difference between the prison of self and the deeper view, there will be no difference and the prison of self will be the only view that you will have. Not right or wrong, but limiting. And what is limited is your view…

Empty Space Lie

Everyone begins their existence complete, but not many realize it. Without this realization it seems as though something is missing. This creates an empty space lie that seems natural, but it's not…

Constantly reaching for things on the outside keeps one in the grip of the need to reach because it's as though there’s an empty space. The reason why reaching is done is to try and fill an empty space lie. Reaching for things on the outsides keeps the reaching in place, thus the empty space lie remains. Only by looking inward does the lie begin to lessen. What really happens is it simply collapses because the lie weakens. Years of conditioning makes the empty space lie almost impossible to fill and it's unfortunate because many never get beyond this. I did say almost impossible because the slightest turning inward is all that's needed. Once looking outside ceases because the empty space lie is revealed, looking inward becomes the view of choice and it has a snow ball rolling down a hill effect; it just naturally picks up momentum.

Outside reaching is used for protection so one doesn't have to go inward. The greatest lie that we tell ourselves and constantly reinforce is we need something to be complete; there's nothing further from the truth. Everyone begins existence complete, it's just that this isn’t realized hence the need to reach for it. Most people have a sense of lack in their lives so the empty space seems natural, but it's not. We're not meant to feel empty and it's only so because of the conditioning we develop. Once the slightest opening occurs, everything changes because the inward view reveals truth. And although we live a lie for most of our lives, when truth is revealed the empty space lie implodes as truth sets you free...

Different Programming

Different Programming:

If things are ever going to be different in our world, the programming in place will have to be different. This will only happen when it's seen the current programming isn't beneficial…

An operating system is programmed to do certain things and it will do just that whether you want it to or not; it has to do what its been programmed to do. Our mind becomes programmed in the same way and unless you use a different operating system or at least upgrade it to some degree, it will remain as it is. It's imperative to understand this so first the programming in place can be identified and second so the programming that may not be beneficial can be different. The programming that ran my life for many years was a self serving one and after a long period of time (forty nine years to be exact), I realized the programming was not really benefitting me or anyone else for that matter. This realization is the beginning stages for the possibility of a different program. This will take some effort because of how ingrained the programming is, but this is more of an awareness thing than actual exertion.

Once one becomes aware there may be another program so to speak to live by, the process of it being different has started. This is difficult because a large part of the original programming is to hold onto the familiar even if it's not providing much benefit. It's how the hamster wheel syndrome remains in place; even at the point of its own destruction. It takes many tools and influences to do this, some inner, some outer, it's just part of the programming. This is why when a person acts in a particular manner they’re more accountable than responsible for what they do. If anything is ever going to be different in our world, the programming in place will have to be different. This will only happen when it's seen the programming although it’s doing what it was designed to do, isn't providing the most beneficial results…

Humanness Trappings

The ways to be trapped by your humanness are endless, but understand the trapping comes from your own mind and even though your conditioning provides the triggers, it’s your humanness that gets trapped by them…

If you're practicing living a spiritual life, but you don't know your own mind, it's like wanting to lose weight, but not making much of an effort to reduce what you eat; your results will be non existent. If you don’t notice your traps the whole point of any practice is missed. This is because the trap of being human which reaches for things outside and makes looking inward difficult. There are so many things in place that prevent looking inward from happening; if it doesn't happen you’ll remain in bondage to your humanness trappings. Trappings aren’t real because when there's even the slightest opening to allow what’s within to be seen, your expansion begins.

Being trapped to your humanness is very enticing, if it wasn't the percentage of conscious and unconscious beings would be reversed. But it's not this way because the humanness trappings are in control; this trapping is only real to a degree. There's no denying it’s there, but it's in control because there's a fictitious belief that it's needed. We alone are the creators of this and if one doesn't have an open mind, the humanness trappings will continue their control. Sadly there's really no way around this…

Attachments Lure

Whatever you’re lured in by, if it’s attached to this will be what causes your suffering. We’re the creators of our world and the more lure there is to something the more of a struggle there is with life…

It amazes me to watch how much lure there is when one is grabbed by something, and the more attachment there is the more one is lured in and held in captivity to the thing. The letting go process is measured by how much attachment there is to something and how long it takes to snap out of it; it’s also very important not to get attached to non attachment. Most of why there’s reactions to things is because of the development of the monkey mind. It can be difficult to accept this at times, but if this is truly understood there is no difficulty at all. 

A lot of people question what my writings point to, but that's their attachments lure. I put myself out there, but I write what happened to me and I do not profess to know what's best for anyone else but me; for me that even comes into question at times. Everyone will do as their attachments lure them in, even to the point that it causes their own suffering. For me, I don’t want to suffer through my attachments lure and if this is to be so I need to find what the cause of the suffering is. I‘m not telling anyone to attach to anything written, I just know a freedom from attachment was revealed to me that was never there before. How this has come about is what I write about, nothing more. Whether it’s for you or not is not up to me, that is up to the attachments that lure you in…

Formed Stories

Every story is formed for one reason and that's to make you think life is better. If it was this easy you could just go around making up stories whenever life wasn't going your way…

There are very few hard line facts in a story so what is it that makes a person think a story is needed to make life better? The only reason stories are made up to begin with is because of the way our minds have been programmed. They're used to keep the mind in a state of agitation by making one believe things need to be different for life to be better. It's what the ego uses to keep one in bondage to a self that doesn't exist. This is how most conflicts are started, because of an ego that forms stories. And whatever the story is whether it's a God that's going to make things better, a superior race or the annihilation of one that will make things better, it all stems from one's story that if things were different life would be better. 

Create a story or not, that is the question. It really has nothing to do with the story, but it does have everything to do with trying to arrange life and thinking if things were different it would be better. This is what needs to be understood if the falseness of a story is to be revealed. If attaching to a story is found to make life better by all means make it, but for me I would have to say life is better without forming stories; especially that they exist only in the mind. If stories are seen to be real and have some facts to back them up, make them, attach to them, use them, just don't be surprised when they’re needed to fall back on to make life better that they don't do what you thought they were going to do…

Unconscious Reality

To expose your unconsciousness, why it’s in place needs to be understood. If this understanding doesn't occur the unconscious reality remains which in turn makes you live life as if you were blind…

The way the base of your thoughts are formulated determines if you see what actually occurs in life or if life becomes the unconscious reality of formulated thoughts. Because of the lack of clarity of truth in most peoples lives, this creates a dual reality. One is what is actually occurring and the other is your unconscious thoughts of what's occurring. The more unaware a person is of this the more their thoughts make up an unconscious reality of life instead of living a life of what's actually occurring.

Thoughts are the base of all unconsciousness because without the unconscious thought it's impossible for the unconsciousness to exist. All unconscious realities start with a thought that it‘s real, but the thought isn't what's actually occurring so dual realities are happening at the same time; one is created (the thought) and one just is. The one you live your life by determines if it's based in what's actually occurring or if you're living an unconscious reality created by the Conditioned Mind. There's living your given life (what is) or there's a life made up. It can be an unconscious creation of your thoughts or it can be the reality of what is. There are always dual realities to choose from, to expose the unconscious one. Why it's created needs to be understood. If this doesn't occur the unconscious remains as reality which in turn makes you live your life as if you were blind…

Harmonic Intentions

When intentions are in harmony with love, this opens the heart to loving all beings. Not because it’s forced, but because this is the way love rolls when intentions are in harmony with love…

Having loving intentions is worth more than all the books combined on what it means to be spiritual. Why this is so is because your loving intentions are yours and the content of any book is someone else’s. Someone else’s idea of you will never be you, no matter if their way is copied exactly. This is why many remain in the struggle because they’re trying to be someone else’s idea of who they should be. You can use books, methods, and whatnot as a tool, but the deep seated intentions of why you do what you do will need to be reflected upon to see if the results of your efforts are in harmony with love. Not the story of love, but the love that arises not from effort, but from one’s inner harmony; this is where effort is meaningless if it’s not in harmony with love. Only harmonic intentions with love result in true purpose.

There are as many books as there are people practicing, but everyone who reads a book and practices doesn’t necessarily wake up. This is because the intentions aren’t of the necessary energy that allows harmony with a loving heart. True intentions need to be seen if there is to be harmony with all beings. This doesn’t mean a person won’t harm you or animals and insects won’t bite you, but it’s less likely you’ll put yourself in that type of situation with having harmonic intentions of a loving heart. In the space of stillness one learns to see their true intentions and in the process have those intentions in harmony with love. When this occurs you will love all beings, not because you’re forced, but because this is the way love rolls when your intentions are in harmony with love…

Beam of Light

When you’re aware that all opinions are a made up story, love takes their place. This love is a beam of light and is always there, but it’s not experienced because of the conditioned opinions that block it…

Without opinions everyone would view life through the eyes of love which by the way is the beam of light of peace; because of opinions this beam of light isn’t seen. The view of opinions are made up by the energy of unconsciousness, this makes everything that happens in life seen through the conditioning of your opinions; through this view what is true is missed. This makes life about nothing real except for the opinions that are formed by the Conditioned Mind.

Being unaware of opinions are what makes the mind attach to thoughts and those attachments are the cause of what controls life. What’s factual is this, life just happens, it’s not personal, it’s not about anything you think it is. It’s not about right, wrong, love, hate, good or bad, it‘s simply learning to understand your minds true nature of quietness and not being led around by your conditioned opinions; whatever they are. When there’s awareness of this you will truly love. A love that has always been there, but it’s never experienced because of your conditioned opinions not allowing you to see your beam of light…

Selfish Thoughts

When thoughts are used as the primary means to live by, there will be a selfish view provided by the minds content. But when the mind settles the selfishness is lifted which provides loving content…

Humans have wars against each other because of the selfish thinking. Because of this thinking, there’s very little unity with ourselves and with the world. Everyone thinks they’re right which arises from what is heard or what’s read somewhere; all this does mar one is a selfish view. These selfish thoughts are the only view of reality that is seen until the mind becomes quiet enough to allow the selfishness to be lifted.

What happens when the mind settles is it allows for two views of reality to be seen. One is the reality of the selfish stories of one’s conditioned thoughts. The other is the unlimited reality of love by just doing what’s in front of you because it’s what’s there. Both realities are from the same mind, but there will only be the selfish view until the mind settles. When this settling occurs and you see the reality of a loving view, the limitations provided by the selfish thought view falls away. It will be at this point that you will go beyond the selfish thought view of to see the unrestricted view of love by just doing what’s in front of you without the need to think about it…

Inner Discomfort

The inner discomfort that keeps you from your peace has nothing to do with life. The discomfort is a creation of your own mind that makes you believe you are not at peace…

There are practical ways to minimize the inner discomfort that causes one to sabotage their own existence. But it has to be understood that the mind creating the discomfort cannot quiet itself. You will have to find out why your own mind is telling you discomfort is needed to cope with life; a life that is controlled by the conditioning to create inner discomfort. Your own mind creates all the inner discomfort you have by choosing to attach to thoughts that give the discomfort life. This unconscious conditioning is why discomfort arises. The Conditioned Mind creates this as you do things that are destructive to your own well being. Why this discomfort mind set is developed I’m not sure, but I do know it can be described only as insane because your own mind does this.

I know now it was my own mind that created discomfort which arose from within myself. Because of the shift that occurred some years ago there‘s now awareness so inner discomfort doesn’t have to be created anymore. I sit for the sole purpose to develop discipline which allows the mind to settle. If there isn’t discipline your conditioning won’t be understood nor will the reason why discomfort arises. This will lead you to being led around like a puppet on a string. Life does nothing to you, it’s your own mind that does it all. Living in a place of discomfort as opposed to a place of peace will never change until the conditioning that makes it so is changed. All I ever wanted was to be at peace, but I wasn’t aware it was my own mind that created the inner discomfort which made me believe there wasn’t any…