Awareness Space

Not justifying everything you do creates the space needed to go beyond the unconscious view. This allows enough awareness so the way things are looked at changes…

When it’s said one is aware it can be described as being conscious of all the different mental factors that arise in each moment; this allows knowing why you see things as you do. It doesn’t prevent what arises or what happens, but it can lessen the reactions and some of the consequences associated with not being aware of this; but only if there isn’t attachment. Nothing inherently causes problems for anyone, alcohol never poured itself down someone’s throat. To reach for it it has to be viewed as beneficial. Same for drugs, gambling or anything else, nothing causes anyone to abuse it, it’s the individual alone who unconsciously sees them as beneficial. Granted most of this self destructive reaching is done without awareness, but I do try to shed light on this. I know a thing or two about this because I was unaware for forty nine years.

So many things controlled me and as long as I was unaware of this, unconsciousness continued its onslaught of control. How this unconscious view gets deeply ingrained is by justifying everything that’s done. From pointing out the faults of others, to being nasty to people, and so many other justified behaviors, all this does is keep the unconscious view in place. Aware that this is being done is the first step in breaking the chains of the unconscious view. Stop looking out there for answers, stop blaming and talking about others, in other words stop justifying everything you do and this just may create the space needed to allow you to go beyond the way you look at things. After all, if you’re unaware of the way you view things and it doesn’t change, the onslaught of being controlled by an unaware view will remain…