Grasping Not Required

The inner grasping that keeps you searching for answers arises from the thought realm and keeps the grasping in place. Only when the mind settles will the grasping subside, and presto therein lies your answers…

Many people are on a so called spiritual quest to find answers, for me this something was an inner gasping to be at peace. I say was because the grasping is no longer there. For many years I didn’t truly understand this grasping and so it was always there as was the search to quiet it. This grasping manifested in many different ways and none provided much of a benefit. What a merry-go-round ride this produced, hence there wasn’t much peace in my life. This lasted for forty-nine years and then one day through a tiny crack in my ego, there arose the possibility of a different view of life which was revealed to me, this gave me some real answers of the true nature of my grasping…

Fifteen years ago it began as just a crack, but has been expanding ever since. For the most part the grasping for peace is no longer there as it has been replaced with daily contentment; at times the mind does become agitated and the grasping briefly returns because of the Conditioned Mind Patterns that are in place. I’ve learned to see it from the “I” perspective that it arises from and not attach to it. Attachment to “I” keeps the grasping in place so one has to search instead of being at peace. The search for peace will never result in peace because the search is what keeps you grasping. In this moment right now is where peace is so there’s no need to search for what already is. It’s only when the mind settles and “I” is let go of that the grasping subsides and presto just like that, there’s peace…