Conditioned Understanding

Those who claim to know truth, but don’t understand their conditioning remain a slave to the conditioning. You needn’t have all the answers to know truth, you just need to understand how not to be a slave to your conditioning…

Some think it’s arrogant to claim to know truth. What makes me so sure that what I see is really truth is because the Conditioned Mind is understood. You see truth isn’t about having all the answers, it’s understanding the conditioning in place. At one time I thought I had all the answers and it was a problem because since I had all the answers I was ignorant of my conditioning which made me ignorant of truth; I couldn’t understand truth if I didn’t understand the conditioning.

Several years ago I began developing a practice of quietness which opened up an understanding of what it was to be a slave to the Conditioned Mind. I say “was” because I am a slave no more. I know the poison of the conditioning and I choose not to allow it to control me. I know how living selfishly and being judgmental causes not only suffering to myself, but also to those around me. Because this is understood I‘m provided with tools to live differently. If I wasn’t aware of this conditioning I wouldn’t be aware of truth.

The ultimate delusion is a person who claims to know truth, but doesn’t have an inkling of the Conditioned Mind; this is the place most people live. Many state that there are different versions of truth and no one can know all truth, but it’s been my experience there are different versions of conditioning, so to me there aren’t different versions of truth. When you understand the Conditioned Mind you will know truth. Remember truth is not about having all the answers, it’s understanding the conditioning. So all truth can be known, but only when one understands the Conditioned Mind…