Uncluttered Mind State

When one awakens, an uncluttered mind state is provided which allows a clear view of your actions. With this uncluttered mind state you become aware if your actions are truly beneficial…

Having an uncluttered mind state allows for the ability to decipher the immediate effect of your actions and your current view. A uncluttered mind state doesn’t allow greed, hate, and delusion, to arise. In seeing the affects of greed, hate, and delusion for what they are and their controlling characteristics, you just may be able to pause them for a millisecond. If this isn’t clearly seen these characteristics will continue their monkey mind control.

Observe the different mind states which are greed, hate and delusion and their polar opposites, generosity, love, and wisdom. These are the uncluttered and cluttered mind states most people fluctuate between. With an uncluttered mind state you see how your actions and the associated actions are linked. What happens first is you can decipher the mind state associated with your actions, and second you’ll see if those actions are beneficial. It’s very easy to see anger and its association with the mind state of hate. It doesn’t take much intelligence to see how this action isn’t beneficial to anyone. Without awareness of this you remain trapped to the mind state of hate and hence the associated actions. Intelligence has no bearing on this whatsoever.

It also works this way with the action of kindness. Kindness with no attached expectations is an action associated with the mind state of love. You can definitely see how this action benefits everyone; to me this is what an awakening is, although one isn’t rendered white as snow just because of becoming awake. No one among us can cast the first stone, but by the mind settling your view becomes uncluttered, and you become aware of your actions and the associated mind state of those actions. It can then be seen if your actions are truly a benefit not only to yourself, but to all beings…

Harmonic Energy

Existence is one energy. When individual energy is out of sorts because of selfish desires, it puts you not only in conflict with yourself, but it also prevents harmony with the entire Universe…

We begin our existence in total harmony with Universal energy. In our beginning stages we’re in harmony with it; there isn’t really much to block this. We live mostly fulfilling our instinctual needs, not much true thought goes on. As we get older we start the process of becoming conditioned to whatever environment and influences we’re exposed to. In other words we start to form our story; this story is what changes our harmonic energy. This is why Jesus made many references in his teachings about children, because as a child without the Conditioned Mind being deeply entrenched, your energy remains in harmony with the Universe or as Jesus called this, Father.

This is why Jesus said “become like little children.” He didn’t say get a career or make up an identity because if you have the heart of a child, you can become anything that you please as you‘ll be in harmony with the Universe. This harmony is oneness, and it’s what makes you complete regardless of anything you do; you will attract the things of the energy you live by. You may fool people by being successful according to worldly standards, but the Universe will not nor cannot be fooled as you will only receive what your energy is in harmony with…

Judgement Limits

The incessant need to judge life limits it. Understanding is different than judging because it allows for the awareness of exactly what’s there instead of the thought of what’s there…

Most of what happens in life is unexplained, but that doesn’t stop the mind from judging it. I have found the unexplained is best left alone because an answer wouldn’t really make a difference. As things occur, judgements associated with existence don’t really assist it. When judging is allowed to control your life, it limits your life and becomes your master puppeteer. 

Most people are limited by the incessant need to judge. Understanding something is different than judging it because it allows for the awareness of exactly what you’re up against (your own mind). This awareness allows the mind to settle and lessen the need for judgements which aren’t truly needed. Judging addiction doesn’t stop one from being an addict, but understanding addiction may; as a matter of fact this is exactly what happened to me.

The Universe needs no judging in its process nor does the origin of our thoughts need to be judged. The understanding of how thoughts are attached to and what behaviors manifest from their attachment, is the difference between being at peace with life or struggling with it. Some will judge this and it’s their right, but I know by understanding my behavior and how it was based to self-serve, it gave me something tangible to use to lessen how much control my judgements had over me. Past tense is used on purpose because their control is much less today. Judging why this occurs doesn’t enhance the ability to be free of the Conditioned Mind, but an understanding of this certainly does. It’s through the discipline of sitting that the mind can settle enough to become aware that applying a judgement to what happens in life, will not enhance it in the way that understanding our own mind will…

Lying Thoughts

When truth is revealed no longer do you listen to your lying thoughts because you understand there’s no reason to believe anything without the facts…

Don’t believe everything you think because your thoughts tell you things that are lies. Your lying thoughts will tell you the past is real, yet the only place it exists is in the mind. Your lying thoughts will tell you to fear, yet the only thing you have to fear is fear itself. Lying thoughts tell you to hold onto the belief of a self that’s a solid entity, but the form that’s being occupied needs no such attachment to exist as it’s always changing in a constant state of flux. Lying thoughts will tell you I think therefore I am, but thinking has nothing to do with I am. Lying thoughts make up beliefs that everything desired on the outside is needed, but if none of those desires comes to pass, nothing happens. Even if the desires do get fulfilled, the satisfaction is fleeting at best. Then there’s the lying thoughts of the so called ego, this is like the bogeyman under the bed, it’s real until one looks under the bed.

There’s an image in the mirror with a name given to it for the purpose of identification. If the name is different we think we are someone else, but that’s only a lying thought because the form remains the same. There will be many lying thoughts held onto that just aren’t true. Unfortunately, the more they are attached to, the more real they seem. To be free, your lying thoughts will have to be exposed. This doesn’t mean you don’t exist, you just don’t exist in the way your lying thoughts tell you. When this truth is revealed, no longer do you listen to your lying thoughts because it’s understood, you shouldn’t believe everything you think because most of it is a lie…

Selfish Mind Patterns

If the world is ever going to change, the selfish mind patterns in place will have to change. This will only happen when it’s seen these mind patterns aren’t providing beneficial results…

A selfish mind develops patterns to do certain things, and it will do just that whether you want it to or not; it has to do what patterns it has developed. Our mind becomes selfishly patterned the same way an operating system works. Unless it’s changed or at least upgraded to some degree, the selfish mind patterns will remain. It’s imperative to understand this so first the selfish mind patterns in place can be identified, and second the patterns that may not be serving you in the most beneficial way can be changed. Selfish mind patterns controlled my life for many years (forty nine years to be exact) until it was realized these patterns weren’t really benefitting me or anyone else for that matter. This realization is the beginning stages for the possibility of the selfish mind patterns to change. This will take some effort because of how ingrained they are, but the effort is more of about awareness than an actual exertion.

Once one becomes aware there may be another way to live, the process of changing the selfish mind patterns in place has begun. This is difficult because the mind wants to hold onto the familiar even if the familair isn’t providing much of a benefit. It’s how the dog chasing its tail syndrome remains in place; even at the point of its own destruction. Selfish mind patterns developed many tools and influences to do this, some inner, some outer. This is why when a person acts in a particular way, they‘re accountable, but not really responsible for what they do. If anything is ever going to change in our world, the selfish mind patterns in place will have to change. This will only happen when it’s seen the selfish mind patterns are doing what they were designed to do, but they aren’t providing the most beneficial results…

Lacking Identity

Creating a lacking identity is all part of the Conditioned Mind with life setting the stage for it to be played out. In silence you’re still on stage, but the lacking identity isn’t needed…

Most of the things that are reached for throughout life are used because of a lacking identity. It’s as if you’re on stage and your identity is being created from conditioned lack. Taking on whatever the assigned identity you think is needed at the time. Each person studies their lines and creates the lacking identity in whatever way their conditioning has been developed; there are many roles used in creating a lacking identity. This lacking identity is associated with the things reached for to make your part in the play more interesting; not many want to be in a play where everyone sits around in silence. It would seem there is needed drama for life to be more interesting, but this is the lacking identity the Conditioned Mind creates.

Only in silence can life be lived to the fullest. Without a lacking identity, you’re still present on the stage of life, but you’re not controlled by the rehearsed conditioning. It’s this conditioning that creates lack that makes you use it to make an identity. In silence with the stage already set, a lacking identity doesn’t have to be taken on nor do you need to create one in the puppet show of a conditioned life…

Intuitive Awareness

Intuitive awareness isn’t something created so life fits nicely into a made up story of how you think it should be. Awareness is intuitive and is already in place, it doesn’t need to be created to make it so…

Although awakening is a process of becoming aware of what blocks your intuitiveness, it will only expand each day by developing a daily mindfulness and sitting practice. For me, no longer does the world revolve around me, it more so revolves around others. Each day I bring a vision of how I can be a benefit to others by writing and posting daily articles. This has been done everyday for the past nine plus years. There is intuitive awareness into my day to day existence and although there are some mishaps because the Conditioned Mind is relentless, the process is a continuation into the expansion of intuitive awareness; with this expansion comes the expansion of love into my day to day life, and the life of others.

Awareness of this intuitive expansion doesn’t take thought, it takes a settled mind. The subtitle of my book: “You Are Not Your Thoughts” was chosen for this reason. All created stories of intuitive awareness are only attached thoughts. When this was understood my conditioning was understood, and it was the beginning of the end of the life of lies I lived. This brought me to the realm of the unknown (intuitive awareness). This realm is not something that thought can bring about; thought actually blocks it. Stillness is where the realm of the Spirit and our intuitive true nature arises. It’s where one connects to all of life and feels the intuitive awareness of the Sunlight of the Spirit. It’s our home, our place of a peace that passes all understanding; it’s the intuitive awareness of existence. This needs no story to be, you only need to stop thinking and intuitive awareness will arise…

One Way Limit

If you only see things one way it limits your view of life because it doesn’t allow for any other results except those from that one way limit…

Having more than one view is what makes life different, but it doesn’t make what happens in life different. It only makes the view of what happens different. If you’re locked into a one way view this only allows a one way limit of the way things are. To me, the more that view is based in the intellect, the harder it will be for there to be a shift to see things another way. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the intellect, it just doesn’t allow for much openness. When one sees things only one way it limits their entire life to that one way. Most times this happens when tv isn’t even your own, it’s formed from someone else’s opinion, teaching, book, video, or discussion.

Being fixated on a one way view limits you to the results of that one way; think about how limiting this truly is. No possibility of another way. Always going down the same path. Never allowing anything new. This is so limiting, but with only seeing things one way this will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the grip of the mind lessens can assist in possibly altering a one way limited mind set, but there has to an inkling there’s another way to see things. It’s not that your way is wrong, it’s just that seeing things one way has limits and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from that one way limit…

Life's Opportunities

Your center of being is in your heart and what’s in your heart is determined by how life’s opportunities are used to either fulfill self satisfying desires or being an instrument of goodness…

When a life opportunity presents itself to help a person to possibly reduce some of the suffering that a Conditioned Mind produces, there’s an obligation to be a benefit to that person. But that person has to take advantage in what’s presented if something is to awaken within them. If nothing happens nothing is lost, but what if something clicks and their view of life changes; their gain is the worlds gain.

Understand though you can not give away what you haven’t got, so get it and give it so this world becomes a better place. As long as people are kept in the dark, darkness rules, but with awareness you can be a light. There is no greater reward than to be an instrument for goodness, a light in a world that has shades pulled down. Those shades are what keeps people in their ignorance (darkness). To watch a person change right before your eyes is amazing.

I talked to a Doctor the other day for twenty minutes, the important thing is she was inquisitive with what has transpired in my life and I could see it in her eyes that what we talked about made her think. She may or may not pursue looking at what happens in life as opportunities are presented, but regardless the seed was planted. Whether it’s cultivated to grow will be determined by what’s within her. I did my part, and just maybe a little light was shed and the shade of ignorance was lifted just enough to allow a little light in. To be a seed planter of goodness is so rewarding, but you can only give it if it’s in your heart. You will only be of the heart when life becomes your teacher and you see the choice to let go of “I” as life opportunities are presented…

A Father's Love

According to the bible, Jesus turned to the Father often, this provided the needed unconditional love not to be overcome by the world. The Father is available in the same capacity today for all, not as a belief, but as loving support so life doesn’t become a created burden…

As I look back at my father, he was considered the rock of our family. It was heart breaking that he died at the young age of sixty two. Our family has grown so much since then and life has gone on without him. Although he is not here physically, the love that he gave our family is as present today as it always was. True love never dissipates, it constantly grows, its nature doesn’t allow it to wane.

Today one of my roles played on the stage of life is that of a father. As my children are now thirty and twenty eight, I gather I am looked upon as a rock, or maybe a pebble, but I am there for them in my role regardless. I look at my role the way the stories describes that Jesus looked to his father. Not his physical father, but his spiritual father who he turned to often. As the father was there for Jesus, the father is also there for me in the same capacity as I am there for my children.

At one time, it’s stated in the bible Jesus said, “Abba, Father, why have you forsaken me, but thy will not my be done.” It’s not that a father has all the answers or removes what is occurring, but as a father and by having a spiritual father I know my children or myself never have to take on life alone because unconditional love is always there. Life only becomes a burden when there isn’t love, “No man’s an island.” For me this provides a calm amongst the storm that allows for the needed support not to be overcome by whatever my conditioned mind (ego) wants to set upon my shoulders and make it into a created burden. So if I look to the unconditional love of the Father, I don’t have to carry any burden alone, nor do my children…

Energy Builds on Itself

The quality of any life in this form is determined by conscious energy. As this energy builds on itself this determines what the base of life will be…

It is very important to be conscious of the energy you live by, it will either come from the heart or the head; you are either conscious of this or you are not. When there is consciousness, living from the heart naturally becomes the way you live. Energy builds on itself regardless of what it is. To me, this is the “Law of Attraction” as it has been revealed. When I’m conscious of my energy, there’s stillness which becomes my life’s direction, life is then derived from this stillness. This isn’t a doing, it’s a transformation occurring from stillness itself.

What’s unfortunate about this is the opposite is also true, at least this has been my experience. For years being unconscious was based to self-serve, and although I mostly got what I wanted, there wasn’t much satisfaction. This self-serving energy built on itself and it doesn’t take a genius to see why my life prior to my shift was the way it was; the energy to self-serve manifested in the only way it could. What energy is in place will be what’s manifested, there’s no way around this; you can only be what your energy is.

Sit with this and be conscious of your energy and see how it builds on itself. Life doesn’t make it what it is, conscious energy makes it what it is. To a large degree we are all the creator of our own reality, and that reality will be determined by your conscious energy. Positive, negative, noisy, quiet, one of these will build your life. It’s not up to the outside circumstances that determines this. Conscious energy determines how what happens is dealt with, how it is built on, and the way future circumstances will be dealt with. You can only build upon the energy in place and that’s determined by what your energy is based in. The life you build is up to you, you alone are the creator of your reality because your conscious energy builds on itself…

Pretending Mind

The value of knowing yourself is priceless because it allows the mind to settle instead of needing to make up some story, pretending to be something that you’re not…

One of the insights revealed to me is having the awareness of my own presence. What is meant by this is to be aware of who I am and not try to be who I am not. When my book was published I was thinking of ways to get its message to people. Just by the fact that it was written I knew there was a valuable message to share about how my view of life became different. Shortly afterwards I started writing and posting articles on social media sites. One day I was contacted by a site to write articles for them, I thought this was a great way to get my books message some exposure. After about six articles the admin of the site said people were contacting her about my articles, saying they were like teachings and asked if I could make them more inspirational. I thought about it and decided I couldn’t compromise the message revealed to me. I told her I wouldn’t change my style; I didn’t write another article for them.

It was important for me to stand my ground on what was revealed to me then and it’s just as important now. The value of knowing who you are is priceless because it allows the mind to settle instead of needing a pretending story. I don’t pretend to be this loving spiritual head in the clouds person; I am what I am. If there was such a thing as a spiritual labors union, I would be the head of it; I’m a blue collared spiritual person. I understand many things, but my feet are always planted in the present moment, so if it’s not happening now it doesn’t really matter all that much to me. I’ve learned early on not to live between my ears trying to be something that I’m not. What this allows is to not have any pretending energy within myself and in the process just be at peace with who I am. Not everyone agrees with my style of writing or what I write, but at the end of the day it’s me who I’m with and I’m grateful there’s no reason to pretend to be something that I’m not…

Imprisoned by Thought

When there’s a need to reach for something to quiet a mind agitation, one is imprisoned by this thought. Until this is understood, you will remain imprisoned to the thought that peace is in the next thing reached for…

You will never find the peace you’re seeking if you’re imprisoned by the thought of finding peace. Peace is something that’s already within each one of us, but because of the way our minds are imprisoned, we get held captive by the thought it’s something to find. Unfortunately this imprisonment makes the very thing you are seeking (peace) elusive. This imprisonment is the reason there is constant reaching for something from the outside and until this is understood, you will remain imprisoned by the thought that peace is in the next thing reached for. Pandemics, drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, success, programs, therapy, self help books and on and on, this reaching is proof that you’ve been imprisoned. I can’t stress this enough as this imprisonment by your thoughts has to be seen if you are to truly experience peace.

No one thinks their way to peace, what does have to happen if you are to ever experience peace is there has to be an understanding of why there isn’t peace. The proof that you‘re not at peace is in the need to find it. When the need to reach for something arises, the imprisonment is done; this is a vicious cycle that’s very difficult to break. Peace isn’t something that can be attained or achieved so in doing less peace arises. Too many people get lost (imprisoned) trying to find peace, but since it’s something that’s already within you, the imprisoned thoughts about finding it need to be discarded so you can see. This isn’t easy, but in understanding that you’ve been imprisoned by the thought of not being at peace; peace simply arises…

Program Responses

Most responses that occur in life are programmed and are put in place by your own conditioning. If your life isn’t being lived to its fullest potential of love, it’s your own programming that’s blocking it from being so…

Although on the surface things appear to be a certain way, but it’s not always as it seems. It’s difficult to see beyond the surface conditioning when programmed ideas are brought into play. So much of what the surface mind holds is from programming and it’s put in storage to be used at particular times; this is the surface mind controls most lives. It’s as though we already have in place the way things are going to be handled; program responses are formed in this way.

Program responses are based on labeling things a certain way, this is how they’re triggered. This goes on constantly because the Conditioned Mind makes it so. If you had no previous programming, triggers wouldn’t work to create programed responses, but this is not the case. One of the keys to not living a programmed life is to develop discipline to be anchored in the present moment. The more present you are the more you’ll be with what life has to offer. When this occurs there’s peace because the programmed ideas that have been put in place by the Conditioned Mind, no longer needs things different than what they are…

Most responses that occur in life are programmed and are put in place by your own conditioning. If your life isn’t being lived to its fullest potential of love, it’s your own programming that’s blocking it from being so…

Although on the surface things appear to be a certain way, but it’s not always as it seems. It’s difficult to see beyond the surface conditioning when programmed ideas are brought into play. So much of what the surface mind holds is from programming and it’s put in storage to be used at particular times; this is the surface mind controls most lives. It’s as though we already have in place the way things are going to be handled; program responses are formed in this way.

Program responses are based on labeling things a certain way, this is how they’re triggered. This goes on constantly because the Conditioned Mind makes it so. If you had no previous programming, triggers wouldn’t work to create programed responses, but this is not the case. One of the keys to not living a programmed life is to develop discipline to be anchored in the present moment. The more present you are the more you’ll be with what life has to offer. When this occurs there’s peace because the programmed ideas that have been put in place by the Conditioned Mind, no longer needs things different than what they are…

Loving Assets

Only your loving assets can be beneficial to others. Being selfish or of love is what determines this. To have assets that are based in love is to ensure an existence that’s beneficial to all beings…

When there’s a clear view of what is considered a loving asset in your life, it’s at this point that you’ll see what’s truly beneficial. Considered assets which are based strictly for self-serving purposes are the cause of all the so called issues one has with life. Your loving assets direct the course of your behavior and if they’re of love you’ll behave in ways that are beneficial to all beings. If your considered assets are self-serving, being aligned with a self-serving direction will manifest in the ways you behave. It has to be this way, so allow love to be your considered asset and you’ll behave in ways that are aligned with love.

You can only act in the ways that are considered an asset, you can’t be anything else. You can never be what you aren’t, your considered assets determine this. It’s so important to have a clear view of your considered assets so you can see if they align with Universal Love. This is when existence can be of maximum benefit to yourself and also the Universe. If this isn’t clearly seen this won’t be clearly known and you’ll behave in ways that aren’t clearly understood. So what‘s considered an asset is how a person will behave, and to know that your considered assets are based in love will ensure your existence is a benefit to all beings. It has to be this way…

Habitual Reaching

Not justifying everything that’s done creates the slightest of cracks in your habitual armor. This allows a sliver of awareness to make a difference in the way things are looked at…

Awareness can be described as noticing the different mental factors that arise in each moment. It doesn’t prevent what arises or what happens, but it can lessen the habitual reactions and some of the consequences associated with what arises; but only if there’s awareness and no attachment. Nothing inherently on its own causes problems for anyone. Alcohol has never poured itself down someone’s throat, it has to be reached for. Heroin never forced anyone to put a needle in their arm, same reaching. It’s the individual alone who reaches for something; this goes for anything. Granted most of this self harming reaching is done habitually, but I do what I do today to try and shed light on this. I know a thing or two about this habitual reaching because I did it for forty nine years.

So many things habitually controlled me, and until there was awareness of this, the habitual reaching continued its onslaught of control. How this reaching gets habitually ingrained is by justifying everything that’s done. From pointing out the faults of others, to being nasty to people, slander, and so many other justified behaviors, all they do is keep the conditioned habit of reaching in place. Aware this is being done is the first step in breaking the chains of habitual reaching. Stop looking out there for answers, stop blaming and talking about others. In other words stop justifying everything you do as being right and the slightest of cracks may be created in your habitual armor which will allow a sliver of awareness in to change the way you look at things. After all, if the way you habitually look at things doesn’t change, the conditioning of habitual reaching will remain…

Chasing Pleasure

For most, chasing pleasure is something that’s constant and it’s a direct link to what keeps the mind in a state of agitation. When things are accepted as they are, chasing pleasure is no longer needed…

We live in a pleasure cultured society, when it’s cold we desire warmth, when it’s hot we desire cool. Chasing after this pleasure is how many people spend their entire lives. If it’s not learned to be with the discomforts of what happens and not constantly push them away, there will be very little peace in your life. We live mostly in a place where we’re afraid of this discomfort because it means facing ourselves. Although our true essence is the love of all creation, this isn’t seen because the Conditioned Mind doesn’t allow it.

Once awareness is developed that allows some discipline to at least slow the mind down, it can be seen how chasing after pleasure occupies most of our waking hours; we’re in a constant fix it mode trying to have things the way we think they need to be in order to be happy. The problem with this is nothing stays the same so we have to constantly make adjustments. It’s truly exhausting to live this way, but it’s the way most people live. It doesn’t have to be this way, but the only way it won’t be is if you can be with what occurs and not want it different than what it is. This doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy pleasure, just understand pleasure isn’t what allows you to be at peace, only accepting things as they are will, and that’s only because you see the pleasure in that…

Intuitive Tools

You will intuitively know truth when your tools are ones that benefits all beings. You will know you’re developing these beneficial tools when you notice you care more for others than you do for yourself…

Although knowing is very important, the issue lies in how it becomes known. I do not profess to understand spirituality. I don’t know God. I have never seen or been answered by God, not directly anyway. I don’t know how the Universe functions nor is it a concern of mine. What I have found is the very simple tool of sitting that allows me to live intuitively in the present moment more and more. When I live intuitively in the present moment the nonsense of my Conditioned Mind is not running my life and making the past and future look like a better place to be… 

Everyone will either live life intuitively or be controlled by their conditioning. Through self investigation I have found answers to some of life’s eluding questions, but it’s not my quest to save the world. I concentrate on changing me and that’s how my immediate world changes. The song Amazing Grace, says “I once was lost, but now I’m found. Was blind, but now I see”. What’s seen are the Conditioned Mind Patterns that control life as if a person is a puppet on a string. What I have found is the tool of sitting allows intuitive awareness of the Conditioned Mind so those puppet strings can be cut…

Spirit Energy

Spirit energy is enough because in this energy we are one, and since Spirit energy is love we are love. Nothing needs to be added to be enough because we are already all that we can become…

A benefit that you’ll acquire by understanding what the practice of quieting the squirrel cage mind does is instead of striving to become, you’ll be guided by the Creative Intelligence of the Universe (Spirit energy) and be in harmony with life. You will realize you are complete just as you are and nothing added can make you more complete. This is priceless because when this is experienced there’s understanding the difference between being and doing, and you will stop doing for the purpose of trying to be. Right now, even though it may not be known, you are already all that you can be.

At the base of this understanding is Spirit energy or Universal Love because that is who you are. Nothing more can be added that would make you be something more. Even if you found the cure for cancer, it wouldn’t be enough unless it was derived from the Spirit energy of love, but it wouldn’t be the cure that would be enough, it would be the love behind finding the cure. Love is enough, only the self-serving mind needs something more in the form of an object, but it’s not really needed, it’s only the ego that makes life into a belief something is needed. A belief isn’t real, it’s only a story made up by a self-serving mind that needs to become something. There aren’t any facts to a belief, but what is factual is Love; a belief or a story isn’t.

Simple realize you are who you are, it’s who you have always been and who you will always be. This is not a belief or a story, this is a fact. You cannot be anything but who you are, if you want to believe you’re a story that is who you will make yourself out to be, but it’s not who you are, it’s only your story. When this is understood there is peace because you stop striving to be something different. This is when the striving to become ceases and love is enough, it’s because you realize love is who you are. Spirit energy is enough because in this energy we are one, and since Spirit energy is love we are love. Nothing needs to be added to be enough because we are already all that we can become…

Quiet Awareness

Don’t allow anyone to take you from your quiet. Let them think they’ve won, their satisfaction will be short lived before needing to win again, but a solid foundation of quiet awareness will last a lifetime…

We as humans are all created equal. It’s not that some have weaker minds than others, but some are more aware of themselves and this makes it seem that some have strengths that others don’t possess. The more unaware one is of themselves, the more you will be dragged around by the occurrences that happen in life; quiet awareness is what one awakens to. It’s not an awakening to the great secrets of the Universe, but more so what pulls you from quiet awareness. I would say in my own case one area where I’ve become more aware is in not allowing other people’s actions to pull me from quiet awareness. At times my initial reaction is to get annoyed, but it’s usually realized very quickly that most people know not what they do so to allow their actions to control me is on me. Because all humans come into the world basically the same (unconditioned) it’s the level of conditioning that makes one appear weak or strong, but one is just more aware of their conditioning than another person.

Let the other person think they’ve won, that they’ve gotten the better of you, except to the ego it means nothing; this is how unconscious energy is squashed. This doesn’t change the other person, but it does change you. It stops all the stories associated with the situation which festers as unconsciousness; I’m going to say this to them, or they are wrong, or don’t they know who I am, this is all the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind (ego) and nothing good comes from this energy. So as I said, let the other person think they’ve won, but you will know in your heart what the truth is because by remaining in your place of quiet and not giving in to the Conditioned Mind nonsense. After all one can only be taken from their place of quiet when it’s allowed and it only occurs when the ego is in control…

Impulsive Reaching

Don’t let the consequences of impulsive reaching lull you into an unconscious state. All impulsive reaching has consequences (attachment) regardless of what’s reached for…

If you’re always impulsively reaching for something it’s because you don’t think what you have is enough. And if you don’t think you have enough, there will always be something to impulsively reach for. Impulsive reaching isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one reaches impulsively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is impulsively reached for only matters to the degree in how the thing affects your life. An impulse to drink alcohol in access has consequences much different than the impulse to go to a program to stop using those things. But the impulses core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of impulse reaching lull you into unconsciousness because all reaching leads to bondage in one form or another, and as stated this includes all impulses.

You might say that’s not true, an impulse to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly how it is in my experience, is the only place you will experience the peace of not needing to impulsively have things different. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, where’s the benefit. I say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you will find it’s not providing the benefits you thought it would; shortly afterwards more gold will be impulsively reached for. Investigate this and see how impulses arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the impulse of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…

Destructive Actions

The more controlled you are by a destructive thought, the more destructive the action will be. The destructive actions are determined by the hold the attached thought has over you…

The problem with thoughts isn’t when you’re busy, although they’re still randomly arising non stop, but because of the busyness there isn’t much focus on them. Problems arise when you’re doing the daily mundane tasks that don’t take much focus. In this state of semi idleness if there’s unawareness of this, when a thought arises there’s nothing to distract you from becoming attached to it because the mind has no focus; this opens the door for destructive actions to occur.

Here is an example of a thought process, you’re at home relaxing feeling all is well, all of a sudden a thought pops in that you want to have a glass of wine, substitute the wine with something more suited to your conditioning. At this point if there’s awareness, the thought will be allowed to pass through, but if there isn’t look out because the destructive action begins. First a past pleasure is brought into the present, then the Conditioned Mind makes you attach to the pleasure. Now there’s an impulse to reach for something (in this case a glass of wine) this puts actions into place and once the bottle of wine is opened and consumed destructive consequences follow. 

There wouldn’t be much of a consequence from consuming one glass of wine, but often time it turns into a bottle. The more controlled you are by a thought the more destructive the anctions are. Because so much of the thought process is to provide pleasure there’s nothing this pleasure seeking (which is the bondage of self) can’t make worse; this understanding is imperative if you’re to be free from destructive actions. It needs to be understood that it’s your own Conditioned Mind that creates your destructive actions. Why this is such an issue is because this leads to the belief these destructive actions are the best solution life has to offer. Without awareness of this and with no tools in place to prevent it, tragically there’s not much focus given to the destructive actions of your thoughts…

Projector Process

When you have a projector in place that sees things as they are without any association to selfishness, it opens up a different way to view life which allows for experiences like never before…

The projector that’s in place to view life determines the way life is seen and what’s processed. The most common projector used processes things as objects and holds onto them in association with a selfish created identity. What happens with this projector is it goes through the senses and everything is associated with selfishness as it becomes the base of life. With this association, a limit is created because a label is attached to what is seen; everything is processed as a selfish object in some way.

Obviously this seeing things as they are will take some practice so life is viewed in this way. The more it’s done, the more you will experience life like never before. It’s unfortunate as objects viewed through the projector of selfishness is so limiting, but because it’s the usual way of the Conditioned Mind, most people are unaware of it. That is until now because my articles shine a light on this for all to see. This seeing things as they are projector is how I’m able to write an article everyday for the last nine plus years. I’m not special in any way because of this, I’ve just been afforded the luxury of not having a selfish projector in place that limits my view of life. This seeing things as they are is the projector that allows for experiences as never before, and it’s now available for all to view life through…

Space of Silence

Without awareness of the mind becoming agitated in the absence of silence, the Conditioned Mind will create story after story just so it can fill the space of silence with noise…

The most difficult thing one will ever do in life is to learn how to hear the space of silence in spite of their conditioning making noise. To not give in to the noise (mind agitations) that tells you to do this or that, reach for this or that, is so difficult because of the lack of awareness of the space of silence, and also the lack of understanding the space of silence. Even with awareness and the understanding of the space of silence, it’s still difficult because of all the outer noise and conditioning. Silence is not something many master. I’m not talking about sitting in meditation or taking a nap, I mean being wide awake without listening to the noise. For forty nine years there was only noise in my life; there was never silence long enough to be aware of any mind agitations. I like so many was a noise reactor; a slave to my Conditioned Mind.

For some this doesn’t seem like much of an issue because there isn’t any awareness of the noise, but make no mistake noise is noise and one is a slave to it regardless how productive or subtle it may seem. Without awareness of the mind becoming agitated in the absence of silence, the Conditioned Mind creates story after story just so it can fill this space with noise. You can only do what the conditioning in place dictates so without awareness of these mind agitations, the conditioning is usually based in noise. Not listening to noise allows for one to truly be an instrument, but make no mistake, this will only occur if you‘re aware of the space of silence so you don’t have to listen to the noise…

Inward Awareness

Truth arises when a person looks inward. All sorts of things happen when there’s inward awareness. When there’s only outward looking, it’s because the mind is agitated and creates a lie to sidestep looking inward…

It’s unfortunate, but most people live a life consumed by lies more than truth. They believe they’re living by truth, but if further investigated this fallacy can be seen. From the outside the lies seem like truth, this is what keeps a person locked in an outward view, but this is only because the Conditioned Mind makes this up. Looking inward makes you look at yourself; all sorts of things arise when this happens. Without this understanding, inward awareness will be avoided as if it was a plague. Becoming inwardly aware of the lies so truth can be revealed is essential in understanding yourself. Sit with the expectation that you will sit in stillness and watch how little stillness there is. Just sit and be with the awareness of whatever’s there, that’s where truth is. When the mind isn’t looking for anything, truth arises.

Lack of awareness causes the mind to create lies. Inward awareness of this lack is when the mind settles. This doesn’t mean you don’t make changes, but when changes aren’t needed that’s when they happen. This is why I don’t share about positive versus negative, because if it’s negative and you want something positive, it’s no different than if you’re positive and you don’t want anything negative. An agitated mind is a mind lacking awareness and wants things to be a certain way whether it’s positive or negative. The lack of awareness is the lie. Truth arises when nothing needs to be different. Your mind will settle when there’s inward awareness of life as it is, this is when the lack of awareness disappears…