Recognizing Your Conditioning

Without recognizing your conditioning, you’ll be blindly controlled by it. It will say jump and you will jump, and most likely you’ll ask how high…

If you want to understand your mind you will need for it to settle so you can observe it. Whatever you think and reflect upon, that is what becomes the inclination of the mind and hence this is what becomes your conditioned actions. If there is no settling, there’s very little chance for the mind to be observed. As conditioning is formed it becomes second nature, there’s very little observation in this mind activated action. These conditioned actions are different for everyone, but their root is common. All conditioning arises in some way to seek satisfaction. It matters little what one uses to fulfill this satisfying seeking conditioning. And because there’s very little awareness of this, it controls you. There needs to be an understanding that your actions become conditioned and you’re controlled by it. This is what determines whether your actions are wholesome (loving) or unwholesome (selfish). Simply put, loving actions should be cultivated so they become instinctual.

If there isn’t some discipline developed to allow the mind to settle, an understanding of this will be difficult; observing the conditioned patterns will not be recognized. Without recognizing your conditioning you’ll be blindly controlled by it. This is why things are done without hesitation that aren’t in your best interest. Without the ability to observe your thoughts you’re like a puppet on a string. If nothing is in place to allow the mind to settle, the Conditioned Mind puppeteer will continue to control you as you blindly and without hesitation do things that aren’t in your best interest or the best interest of others…