Reaching Crutch

Reaching is like wishing your life away as it keeps you from experiencing the present moment. It’s used as a crutch because what’s occurring right now is what’s here as opposed to reaching for the present moment to be different…

Many people think reaching is something that’s needed, but it’s used strictly as a crutch by the Conditioned Mind that keeps you from understanding what it means to be in the present moment. It’s a direct cause of suffering as it makes you believe you need to reach for something in the future. The Conditioned Mind does this by telling you the present moment isn’t good enough and it needs to be different. It projects a lie that things would be better if they were different. And maybe on the surface they would be, but inward is where one derives the perception that makes life what it is; so it will either be a life of reaching or one of contentment. Even if what’s reached for is gotten, it won’t last; especially when it’s from the surface. Inward there is a better chance for it to last, but this is only if one is awake enough to see this.

Let’s say you’re diagnosed with an illness, the only thing reaching does is it makes you wish the diagnosis was different. It doesn’t change the fact of what’s occurring right now. The illness remains regardless of what’s reached for. If you don’t want your life to be different and it’s accepted as it is, you will experience the peace of the present moment regardless of what’s occurring. This is because right now is the only place of true existence so it’s important to see this. Not in the future, but right now because you don’t need to reach for anything to make right now different because it will always be as it is…