Sheep Mentality

There’s so much of a sheep mentality in our society today that it’s almost impossible to break its hold. The reason for this is because the thing being followed is attached to by the sheep mentality of "I"

The sheep mentality will drag you along unconsciously unless there’s some awareness that it’s happening. To me the only thing that allows this awareness are your thoughts slowing down enough to where there’s a millisecond of space between them; in this space the pull of a sheep mentality lessens. The only thing I’ve found that allows this space is being present. It’s very important to understand this because people sit for hours with other intentions and the moment they’re finished, the sheep mentality returns. Understanding this is beneficial because it allows for a clear vision which keeps the mind open to lead instead of follow. If everything stays in the head as sheep intellect, it will be difficult to break free from the energy of this. The more attachment there is to sheep energy, the harder it is to pull away.

One example of this is in the Bible, the masses grew and grew as the Pharisees publicly tried Jesus. As more people were pulled into the sheep mentality to crucify, the sheep energy intensified. If you research some of the conquerors of the past, you will see exactly how the sheep mentality works. As their reigns widened and their tyranny expanded, the sheep mentality deepened. There’s so much of this energy in our society right now, and it’s reinforced daily. It’s so hard to break free because of the attached sheep mentality of “I” that keeps it in place. This even includes many trying to help others if the sheep mentality is focused on “I” instead of the intuitive love of the heart. Until “I” is addressed, few people will ever truly break free from the sheep energy because the attached mentality won’t allow space between your thoughts as the energy of “I” remains in control…

Inner Blindness

As long as there’s inner blindness in place, this will be the operating energy controlling your life. This energy arises as unconsciousness and it doesn’t allow you to see what’s truly going on…

Unless you’re awake, how things appear isn’t how they actually are. If you truly want to see what’s going on, getting beyond your inner blindness will have to happen. Even though many people may be looking at same thing there are usually different views of what is seen. Many views happen because of inner blindness, but there’s also the view of consciousness; this is the view of truth. To stop seeing from the view caused by inner blindness, stop labeling what is seen. Stopping the labeling process allows the mind to slow to a point so consciousness (truth) arises. It’s imperative for this to happen if the inner blindness that’s been formed over the years is to lessen its grip.

Inner blindness is so misunderstood, and how this is known is because of the behavior that’s exhibited. I look to my own reactions to know this and in the process I can see it in others. This isn’t a judgement, it’s factual. Know your own mind and you will know the mind of others. This is because we are all of the same energy. Creation is creation anyway it’s looked at. When inner blindness is seen for what it is, its energy begins to transform in a direction that allows consciousness. As long as there’s unawareness of this, the energy of inner blindness will remain as the operating energy of your life. This operating energy arises and takes on many forms, but the bottom line is it’s your inner blindness that doesn’t allow you to see what’s truly going on…

Tyrannical Lies

Understand the tyrannical lies and there won’t be anything left but truth. Not a made up story of truth, but a real honest to goodness truth based on facts not tyrannical lies…

The biggest lie we are told by tyrannical people is they do what they do to benefit humanity. This is reinforced by their tyrannical global structure in place. Believing their tyrannical lies are at the core of humanity’s misaligned existence; their lies create all our issues. Religious sects all claim to have the truth, no facts, just their truth. Corrupt politicians fix problems based in tyrannical lies with solutions based in their lies. The entire entertainment and sports industry are based in tyrannical lies that create the false impression of them and us. This creates separation, but there will never be truth in separation. There’s also the “Great American Dream” lie of owning things, the Central Bank no doubt created this tyrannical lie. Lie after tyrannical lie, and what happens to an existence based in these lies, it becomes an existence of tyrannical liars. Not because this is wanted and not because the truth isn’t known, it’s simply because the tyranny isn’t understood by the people. No one who believes the lies will ever know truth unless the tyrannical lie and liars are exposed.

The truth will set you free when the tyrannical lies are understood because there will be nothing left but truth. Not a made up story of it, but a real honest to goodness truth based on the facts of what’s really happening as opposed to the story the tyrannical fake news media creates to suit the lie and the evil liars (Tyrants). It’s a tyrannical lie that has been handed down for eons and it’s been the base that we’ve been living from for most of, if not all our lives. Very strong language, but true. Look inward and you just may see truth, but it will only happen if you can see the tyrannical liars and their governmental organized crime syndicate…

Unity of Our Hearts

If you think individual energy changes things, you will be disappointed. Not in your effort, but in the result of things not changing. Unity of our hearts is needed for true change…

A large part of the problem when it comes to changing things is how it’s tried on an individual basis. There’s way too much energy wasted on this; if things are to change it has to be done with the love that comes from the unity of our hearts. We all need to have our hearts united with the hearts of others. This is from the Universe and it’s a united heart that realizes this. When there’s unity of our hearts, we’re not limited to certain beliefs or made up concepts; we’re open to anyone who has an open heart. The only way for the heart to be united is to remove its pollutants. An example of this would be polluted water: Nothing has to be added to polluted water to return it to its natural state, all that needs to be done is to remove the pollutants.

The only thing that matters is to remove all your pollutants so the united heart energy is emitted to all beings; this is a Universe doing. What I share is a message of unity of our hearts, but it’s not my unity, it’s the unity of the Universe. It’s through the surrendering of individual doing that the Universe finds the best possible way to use you; what that results in is up to the Universe not some individual doing. Unity of our hearts is our strength, it‘s the self-serving mind that keeps all beings from the love of the unity of our hearts…

Effective Tools

Are the tools you have in place truly effective to allow you to love yourself unconditionally and thus love all beings? The key word here is all, not just a select few…

For many years I did things that I considered effective for my wellbeing. After forty nine years of doing this, I found myself at such a low point that wasn’t sure if I was going to rise up. There was no I think I can chants, no positive thinking, no meditation, no loving myself. There was much confusion and despair, and the insanity of this is my own mind that developed these tools and deemed them effective. Now I know not many get to this place of total despair so it’s difficult to understood how low I was, but I will say this, I’m fortunate beyond words and I will tell you why. When I was twenty eight years old I was hanging in a bar in Newark NJ with eight men. All of us were using alcohol and drugs as effective tools, seven of those individuals are dead. What’s tragic about this is the tools that each of them accepted as effective for their wellbeing were the cause of their death. Think about how insane this is and how often this is repeated today; insanity to say the least.

When I look back at what I thought were effective tools for my wellbeing, I see nothing but this insanity. I alone, although not intentional, caused all my own suffering. Now you may not think this applies to you, but every self destructive thought one ever has comes from within yourself. It may have been put there by some outer influence, but it was attached to by you and you saw it as effective to give it the energy to manifest. I’m not a big on negative/positive, my experience is more in line with quietness as an effective tool. There’s a question to ask yourself if you can muster the courage to do so. Are you willing to truly face yourself to see if the tools you have in place are effective to allow you to love yourself unconditionally and thus love all beings? If not, new tools are needed…

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…