Sheepish Rut

A mind that gets stuck in a sheepish rut doesn’t just happen, it takes many years of mindless conditioning to create. It’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and will take much willingness to get out of this sheepish rut…

To not get sheepishly stuck in the rut of daily routines of everyday life, each day has to be viewed as new so a message of love can be brought into it. Not a single act from yesterday, good, bad, or indifferent can be undone. Our mistakes, if that’s how they’re labeled, are the results of being sheepishly stuck which have been put in place to cope with things as they occur. If you’re not mindful of love, how can you expect your reactions to be of love? This is only considered bad in the sense that it causes suffering because of the energy emitted from a reaction that isn’t based in love.

This energy is the sheepishly rut energy of a so called mundane life, but life is anything but mundane. This sheepishly rut energy doesn’t allow one to take advantage of opportunities to be the instrument of love. Our sheepish perceptions create ruts which take away our objectivity in living life. Things really aren’t as we think. Our life may be lived by our thoughts, but this is the created delusion Buddha described. When we can stop having a sheepishly stuck in a rut mindset of putting everything in our little perception box, we will begin to fill life up with love and eventually the sheepish ruts will not exist. As this happens, each and everyday will be a new beginning because there won’t be any sheepish ruts created to get stuck in…

Operating Vibration

When you’re not being controlled by outside things therein lies your freedom, but it isn’t freedom because life is the way that it’s wanted, there’s freedom because your operating vibration is with life as it is…

The operating vibration that controls your life makes life what it is, but it doesn’t truly make life what it is, it makes YOUR life what it is. Until the operating vibration in place puts you in harmony with life, there won’t be any and hence your life will be out of sorts because it’s the way you’re making it. It’s actually a beautiful thing when you become aware of this because it puts your life in your hands; there’s nothing more a person could want. When you’re not being controlled by outside things therein lies your freedom, but it isn’t freedom because life is the way that it’s wanted, there’s freedom because your operating vibration is with life as it is.

What happens with the mind that has an operating vibration not based in love is it gets hijacked by its own conditioning as you’re held hostage by your own mind. I know this sounds crazy, but this is exactly what happens, and it’s all because of the operating vibration based to self serve. When the operating vibration in place is controlled by a me, me, me mind, chaos is the norm or so it seems, but it’s only because of the chaotic operating vibration. When the operating vibration transforms to love the craziness subsides. When you sit and see what the base of your vibration is, you just may be able to change it. It will take some time though because of the conditioning in place, but the alternative is to remain as you are being controlled by operating vibration that holds you hostage…

Mind Programming

Beyond mind programming there’s nothing but space. Why this is difficult to see is because life isn’t about what you think it is. In fact life is everything you think it isn’t, but it’s not seen because of trying to figure it out with a programmed mind…

Round and round the mind goes and where it stops nobody knows; this is a perfect example of the mind programming in place for most people. One thought after another, no space, no quietness, just the noise manifesting as programming. If you could just sit back in a space where the noise subsides, there’s a chance to truly see what Jesus and Buddha spoke of. If you think you have an idea of what life is about I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that’s just programming. There are no answers to what life is about, but the more mind based you make your existence, the more you’ll think you have it all figured out. I’m not saying I know what life is about, but I do know what it isn’t about and it has nothing to do with what is seen by the mind. The more programmed you’re by the mind the less life is experienced. Beyond the mind activity is the only place where life is truly experienced. You can travel all around the world and make up the story of all the beauty around you, but it’s only a story to provide pleasure and store it as a pleasurable memory. Beyond the mind no story is needed, no pleasure is needed.

Think about it, your entire life is programmed until one day you no longer exist in your current form. Every programmed experience is taken with you as if they never occurred. They were thought to be needed so you could make sense of your life, but really they mean absolutely nothing because they are all only created from the mind programming of the senses. Buddha talked about of delusion, Jesus spoke of not being of this world, what do you think they were talking about? If you remain trapped to the mind programming you’ll remain trapped in your suffering. Even those who think they understand this don’t because it’s not something to understand. Beyond the mind programming there’s nothing but space and the possibility of truly seeing what life is about. Why there’s difficulty in seeing this is because life isn’t about anything that you think it is. In fact it’s about everything you think it isn’t and this is because of the trying to figure it out with a programmed mind…

Conditioned Dead Zones

As long as there’s conditioning in place there will be dead zones in your life. These dead zones are blocks through the eyes of the Conditioned Mind and don’t reveal what’s truly going on…

Often how things appear to the Conditioned Mind are dead zones that block what’s actually occurring. If you truly want to see what’s going on, going beyond your conditioned dead zones will have to happen. If two people are looking at the same thing there’s usually two different opinions of what’s seen, and then there’s what’s beyond the dead zone of the formed opinion, this is the truth. It’s the old adage, there’s two sides to every story and there’s the truth. To see what’s beyond the dead zone conditioning you only need to stop labeling what is seen. Stopping the labeling process allows the dead zone to open to a point where space opens up. It’s imperative for this to happen if the conditioned dead zones that have been formed over the years, are to lessen their grip.

Dead zones are misunderstood and how this is known is because of the behavior that’s in place. 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 conditioned dead zones and you’ll know the conditioning of others. This is because we are all of the same energy, just not the same conditioning. When your dead zones are seen for what they are, their energy begins to transform in a direction that reveals truth. As long as there‘s unawareness of this, the dead zones remain as the operating energy of life. Conditioned energy arises as dead zones and takes on many forms, but the bottom line is it’s the dead zones in place that don’t reveal what’s truly going on…

Cascading Stories

Do what you think you need to do, but any doing is actually an undoing because it keeps the mind in a cascading state. And as long as it’s cascading by doing, the view will never be clear…

It may be better if you did less in your life if what you are doing is putting your mind in a cascading state; only when the cascading stories stop will the mind be clear. When the mind, is in a cascading state it becomes stirred up and it’s very difficult to see what’s really happening. This cascading can be identified as what you think is needed to make you complete; you see when the mind is settled the view is clear. When the mind becomes stirred up it becomes cascading and all kinds of stories are created about what’s needed to make you complete. Reading another book may be used, another 12 step meeting, another person to help, losing another pound, more money, and on an on. So many things are used that cause a cascading mind; the truth is it’s not needed because you’re complete as you will ever be right now; in the clarity of a settled mind is completeness.

Cascading stories are created because of the conditioning that’s in place. Clarity will never be as long as one thinks there is something needed to do that will make you complete. Doing only keeps the cascading mind from settling; the more one does the more cascading there is. Do whatever you think you need to do, but understand there will never be clarity until there’s no more cascading stories. Be the light, be the instrument to spread love, be whatever you want, but this doing is actually an undoing because it keeps the mind in a cascading state, and as long as cascading stories are created the view will never be clear…

Oneness Energy

Oneness energy comes from a sacred place, it’s not a place that’s associated with any activity, it’s a place which simply unites us all to oneness energy…

In my experience oneness energy doesn’t expand on its own, it needs others. Deepening a connection with others deepens oneness energy which is what unites us. If oneness energy connected us each other, there would be no more hate because we would fall over each other; it’s in this space for each other that the oneness of life is experienced. A smile, a warm embrace, the magnificence of love, and the deepest connection of our hearts. Loving oneself and others is the oneness energy that connects humanity, these are experiences from the sacred place within.

I don’t really know what life is about, but I do understand how oneness energy with others is sacred. When this is experienced it leaves one speechless. For me because of this oneness energy, I have been speechless many times in the last fifteen years. I’m using the words oneness energy to describe this, but words cannot truly explain it. I watch in awe as I explain what I went through to someone and see oneness in their eyes, to me this is our oneness energy uniting. Oneness energy comes from such a sacred place, it’s not something that any human activity can make happen. When there’s oneness energy with others there will be unity with ourselves and with all humanity…

Life Lessons

Allowing life to be as it is and not needing to change it allows the lessons that are needed to teach you…

It order to not get caught up in making life about anything in particular, it’s very important to remain open so you can lean the lessons that are needed. If the so called spiritual path is about anything in particular I would say this is it because being open to learn puts you in the present moment and this is the only place that actually exist. I have learned so many valuable lessons throughout life, but regardless I’m always led to remaining open as the only way there will ever be freedom; and it can only be done when one’s state of being is anchored in the present moment. This is not a belief or concept, this is the lesson life gave me. I don’t really understand all the other teachings, they seem to be about some created answer instead of one that simply is. Any teaching that is created to be about something is just a concept or belief. A true answer simply is, it’s never created.

When you’re open in the present, you’re with the only true reality and if c  there’s non attachment to this reality, it will be impossible to lose your center of being; therefore you would never ever suffer. Look deeply at what lessons are learned. Even if there’s some behavior that’s not changed, if there is non attachment to it, you‘ll learn from it. Non attachment and learning is the only true state of being where one is free. Even trying to change the world for its betterment is a form of attachment. Allow life to be as it is and life will teach you the lessons needed to learn…

Another View

The only way to have another view is to have an optional one in place that will allow it to happen. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness of another view…

TV isn’t my favorite way to past time, but the other night I caught the last part of a movie. When it was over I began looking for something else to watch. Twenty seconds on one channel, ten seconds on another, five on another, then another and another, you get the picture. It’s amazing how we stay locked in on something, in this case it was the TV. We’re so reluctant to go to another view even though we’re going round and round in circles. Actually what’s on the TV is mostly reruns, yet we’ll watch the same show (thoughts) over an over. Even though there are many shows we get stuck on one and don’t know there are options.

Think of something you get locked in on and see how hard it is for another view when it gets you in its grip. Unless there’s awareness of this, another view will be just about impossible. The only way to see another view is to have an option in place that will allow it to be seen. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness that another view is available. It may be a repeated single thought disguised with many different labels, but it’s still an old thought. Watch the subtleness of this, in time you’ll see your view for what it is and how it likes to default to what’s familiar. The issue is you can get so comfortable with this that it’s not realized there are other ways to see things. This realization will only occur if you have an open mind so another view can be seen that will make a difference…

Nobody Looking Morality

Nobody looking morality means what you do when nobody’s looking is the same as what you do when you are being watched. If this isn’t the level of your morality, it’s because there’s a lack of self honesty…

One way to the purification of the mind and heart is to develop morality. Here’s one definition of morality “The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct” To me, this is about self honesty because when I’m truly honest with myself, there’s no way I can be dishonest with anyone else. I’ve learned a lot about self honesty in the last fifteen years; it’s something that eluded me for most of my life. Honesty isn’t about what I present to the world, it’s about what’s done when nobody’s looking. The world is easily fooled because of the conditioning in place, but what does it matter if one gains the whole world, but loses themselves.

Morality is a huge hurdle in breaking the chains of the Conditioned Mind, without it truth cannot be revealed. If I don’t know the blocks of the purification of the mind and heart, the blocks remain. Without establishing what I call “nobody looking morality” one remains stuck in their old habits because there’s no room for anything new. Certain things trigger certain thoughts and if those thoughts are attached to, it’s usually because one’s morality has been compromised. Although there’s no right or wrong in this, it does make someone do something that wouldn’t necessarily be done if someone was watching; as always investigate this for yourself.

Only to yourself is honesty necessary because it’s only yourself that will keep you from the purification of your mind and heart. This self honestly is tied in with loving yourself; when you’re honest with yourself you’re truly loving yourself because you’re making room for the mind to expand. This allows for the morality to do what you do when nobody’s looking just as you do in front of others. Difficult yes, but only because “nobody looking morality” has been compromised due to the level of self honesty in place…

False God Attachment

There are so many different versions of God, but regardless of what your version is, attachment is what keeps you in bondage. Although it may appear that God creates the bondage, the bondage is from the attachment to a belief…

There are many traps that keeps you in the bondage of your own mind and none of these traps are used as much as the word God. A false God is no different if it’s an idol as stated in the Bible or simply attaching to some image. To me this false God description is right on. Here’s where this gets tricky because anything that is made into a story and is attached to is a false God because it becomes a prison to the one who is attached to the story; God is made into an idol by people and becomes a prison although most don’t see this. Just look at the different religions and how all the followers of a particular one think their God is the right one. Many of these religions have beautiful teachings, but how they’re attached to actually takes away from the teachings. This isn’t to say there isn’t value in them, but there’s never value in attaching to something because it enforces an I am right and you are wrong narrative.

I found this false God attachment happening to me yesterday,. Someone didn’t agree with my article so right away I felt I had to defend it, after all I wrote it so it has to be right lol. I always have to look at myself so I can identify what my false God is attaching to. I’m not saying there is or isn’t a God, this is just to show how attachment to anything becomes bondage and blocks the heart from remaining open to allow everything its freedom. False Gods take over when they get attached to. I am right is an idol as is anything reached for. The world presents many false Gods disguised as idols and until these false Gods are identified, the attachment to idols will remain and so will your bondage…

Expansion of Stillness

Intellect doesn’t make you wise. Wisdom is something that occurs as you learn to understand stillness. With this understanding wisdom arises and goes beyond intellect…

Until you truly understand stillness, not much will ever be different in your life. This is because in order for things to be different it has to be understood why they are as the they are. Awakening is not something that one makes happen, it’s something that occurs. How you will know that it occurred is by the awareness you have that your mind was based to self serve and now it’s based in stillness. Very simple to see this once it occurs, very difficult to see it if it doesn’t. The key to the expansion of stillness is to know the true nature of your own mind.

One day it was revealed to me that at the core of all my issues was my own mind and nothing was ever going to be different in my life if there wasn’t an understanding of this. I had to understand why I had to always be busy before I could be still; before stillness was experienced in my life I had to find out why there wasn’t any. Stillness doesn’t have to be attained for one to acquire it, all that’s needed is to be aware it’s not there. Once this occurs there’s a starting point that can be established so the process of stillness can expand, but for this to occur it stillness needs to be understood…

Divine Unity

Divine unity comes from a sacred place, it’s not a place that’s associated with any human activity, it’s a place which simply unites us all to a divine heart…

In my experience a divine heart cannot expand on its own, it needs others. Deepening a connection with others deepens the divine heart which is what unites us. If divine unity were to happen, there would be no more greed, hate, or war because we would fall over each other; it’s in this space for each other that the divinity of life is experienced. A majestic sunset, a cool summer breeze, the magnificence of the ocean, a starlit night. Loving oneself and others is the divine unity that connects humanity, these are experiences from the sacred place within.

I don’t profess to know what life is about, but I do understand how unity with others is sacred. When this is experienced it leaves one speechless. For me because of this divine unity, I have been speechless many times in the last fifteen years. I’m using the words divine unity to describe this, but when this is felt words cannot truly explain it. I watch in awe as I explain what I went through to someone and see divinity in their eyes, to me this is our divinity uniting. Divine unity comes from such a sacred place, it’s not something that any human activity can make happen. When there’s divine unity with others, that’s when there will be unity with ourselves and with all humanity…

Sheepish Reaching

Not justifying everything that’s done creates the slightest of cracks in your sheepish 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 sheepish 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 sheepishly reached for. Heroin never forced anyone to put a needle in their arm, same sheepish reaching. It’s the individual alone who reaches for something; this goes for anything. Granted most of this self harming reaching is done sheepishly, but I do try to shed light on this. I know a thing or two about this sheepish reaching because I did it for forty nine years.

So many things sheepishly controlled me, until there was awareness of this the sheepish reaching continued its onslaught of control. How this reaching gets sheepishly 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 sheepish reaching in place. Aware this is being done is the first step in breaking the chains of your sheepish 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 sheepish armor which will allow a sliver of awareness in to change the way you look at things. After all, if the way you sheepishly look at things doesn’t change, the conditioning of sheepish reaching will remain…

Desires Lure

The most important thing to understand about desires lure is the less one is attached to “I” the less one will be lured because without “I” there’s no one desiring…

The reason desires lure is so enticing is because it actually feels good, this is why the lure of desire is so powerful. The only real issue with this is because of the impermanent nature of desire. It simply will not last no matter what; it has no staying power so something else will be needed almost immediately following the attainment of the desire. Think about it, with all the desires that have been attained throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the fulfillment now that it brought at that time. Most times even if the same exact desired fulfillment is physically repeated, it’s usually not as satisfying as the first experience. I used so many things as I was lured in by my desire seeking conditioning, but it was never lasting. The lure of the next needed desire always arose. This went on all the time, being lured in by one desire after another and never being satisfied. 

I’ve come to understand desires lure as the main reason people reach for things. If your desires didn’t need fulfillment nothing would be reached for. So there would never be a need for anything hence there wouldn’t be any issue. Unfortunately desires lure has its way with people as it’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place before your existence began. I know desires lure is what controlled me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with “I”. Without “I” no one is there to be lured in. Even with this understanding, desires lure doesn’t just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me the most important thing to understand about this is, the less one is attached to “I” the less one will be lured in because without “I” there’s no one who needs to fulfill the next desire…

Mind Approved Lunacy

You can only do what your mind approves of. Until you wake up to see this, the lunacy of what’s approved will remain in place and it will be the driving force of your existence…

Everything reached for is a coping mechanism approved by the lunacy of your own mind. Although approving different things will produce different outcomes, the core of all of this mind approved lunacy is the same; it arises from your conditioned mind. This is what causes one to constantly seek approval which isn’t real. The Conditioned Mind makes you believe it is and the ensuing behavior manifest to fill this approved lunacy. The Conditioned Mind says, Hey, you need to reach for something, what is reached for depends on the conditioning lunacy in place; sit and ponder this.

Until this is understood and the diabolical Conditioned Mind is seen for what it truly is, suffering will remain because you will always approve something to fulfill the arisen mind lunacy. There’s nothing inherently wrong with satisfaction, but when it’s the driving force of existence, it will keep the mind in a constant state of approved lunacy. This cannot be seen by a mind that’s locked in this state. Only within a quiet mind state will there be awareness of this. The reason why anything is reached for is because there’s lunacy approval by the mind for the present moment to be different; this is the lunacy of the Conditioned Mind. You can only do what the lunacy of the conditioned mind approves of. Unless you wake up to see this, your conditioning will remain in place and mind approved lunacy will be the driving force of your existence…

Take or Give Mind State

The mind is really very simple to understand. It can be broken down into two mind states, take or give. Everyone who is alive will be led by one or the other…

There’s a lot of stuff (thinking) that goes on between the ears that determines what mind state you will be led by. When it’s broken down, you will be led by either a take or give mind state. To me everything that happens is the result of something previous so the results of living in a state of take or give are vastly different. This isn’t to apply a label that one is right and one is wrong, but if investigated it can be seen how a give mind state produces results aligned with love, kindness, peace, harmony, joy, and a take one aligns you with results of anger, greed, hate, unhappiness, discontent and so on. I had a take mind state for many years and this resulted in much suffering in the form of feeling isolated and alone most of the time. As a result of this, I used many different things to try and not feel this way, but to no avail because not matter what, the take mind state would always return.

Some years ago I began understanding the different results of these two mind states and started developing certain things that put me more in line with a giving mind state. A take mind is selfish in nature and produces selfish results; desirable results if you’re based in the material world. A mind that gives has no selfishness to it and the results prove this. This doesn’t mean the take conditioning is gone for good, but it has lessened to a large degree and hence there is literally no more isolation in me. If the difference of these two mind states aren’t seen it seems the take state controls more; it’s because of the influences of the material world that make this so. Even though by being alive you are part of the world, when you finally wake up, what’s seen is you don’t have to allow the selfish collective take mind state to control you…

Natural Truth

Natural truth isn’t a made up story nor is something that can be manufactured. There‘s only awareness of it when the lies are exposed, so expose your lies and natural truth will arise…

To me it’s clear what truth is and here’s why, fifteen years ago I started to look into a different way to live my life and at the core of this looking was the revealing of my lies. I didn’t know much about anything, but I did know I needed a different way to view life. I understood one thing, that my own mind created all my lies. So I set out to find out why this was and if it was possible to change this. As this process of self inquiry proceeded, my lies were slowly being revealed and as this happened I became less and less attached to the lies. It didn’t become about anything else, it just wasn’t all about the lie of needing to fulfill my wants and desires; when this happens, awakened qualities ( natural truth) arises. This doesn’t mean everything goes your way, it doesn’t matter how it goes because there aren’t the lies of a story of wanting and needing things a certain way; without a story natural truth is revealed.

Truth is difficult to describe in words because it’s interpreted differently by everyone, but I have found truth is the space of what is. What is has many labels dependent on what’s occurring at the time. It can be horrible, beautiful, or neutral, the label doesn’t change what’s actually occurring. Being in the space of what’s occurring changes it and that’s because without a label there aren’t lies, there’s only space. In this space there’s no lie and without a lie is when natural truth is revealed. It’s not a made up truth, it’s the truth of just being in the space of what’s here right now and not needing to add a lie to it. In this space is where you’ll become aware of truth, but it has nothing to do with you directly; it’s a natural truth that arises when the lies are revealed…

Compulsive Reaching

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

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

You might say that’s not true, a compulsion 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 compulsively 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 compulsively reached for. Investigate this and see how compulsions arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the compulsive reaching of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…

Internal Spirit

The Internal spirit is the true essence of all beings. The only reason there’s darkness is because the spirit is looked for externally. When there’s awareness of your internal spirit, it instantly replaces darkness…

There needs to be awareness of the internal spirit of the heart so the dark places of the mind dissipate. The internal spirit is always there just waiting to replace darkness, it never leaves. When you live from the mind the thought realm is allowed to take over and it becomes very difficult to have awareness of the internal spirit. This internal spirit is what turns away the darkness of an unconscious state of mind; this unconscious state is the world of external answers. As long as answers are sought externally, darkness will remain. Darkness creates a world that’s mind based and this is what blocks awareness of internal spirit. It doesn’t allow for the pure essence of the life to be recognized. It holds onto the belief that life is to be managed so it can be a certain way, but even if the way occurs, darkness remains because it’s mind based.

The internal spirit on the other hand is of the heart. When seen it replaces the darkness without effort; as when entering a room and the light is turned on the darkness is no more. That’s all that’s needed, the spirit needs to be noticed. The internal spirit always replaces darkness, unless one’s bulb is burnt out; our path is to make sure the internal spirit is always noticed regardless of the surrounding darkness. As your spirit remains lit, more people will see it and be drawn to you. When this occurs it will draw others to you as the internal spirit expands, and maybe one day there won’t be any darkness to replace because everyone will see their internal spirit…

Harmonic Aspirations

When aspirations are in harmony with love, this opens the heart to loving all beings. Not because it’s wanted, but because this is the way love rolls when aspirations are in harmony with love…

Having harmonic aspirations is worth more than all the books combined on what it means to be spiritual. Why this is so is because your harmonic aspirations are yours and the content of any book is someone else’s. Someone else’s idea of you will never be you, no matter if their way is copied exactly. This is why many remain struggling because they’re trying to be someone else’s idea of who they should be. You can use books, methods, and whatnot as a tool, but the deep seated aspirations of why you do what you do will need to be reflected upon to see if the results of your efforts are in harmony with love. Not the story of love, but the love that arises not from effort, but from one’s own harmonic aspirations. This is where effort is meaningless if it’s not in harmony with love. Only harmonic aspirations with love will result in meaning.

There are as many books about awakening as there are people practicing, but everyone who reads a book and practices doesn’t necessarily wake up. This is because the aspirations aren’t of the necessary energy that allows harmony with a loving heart. True aspirations need to be seen if there is to be harmony with all beings. This doesn’t mean a person won’t harm you or animals and insects won’t bite you, but it’s less likely you’ll put yourself in that type of situations when inspired by a loving heart. In the space of stillness one learns to see their true aspirations and in the process have those aspirations in harmony with love. When this occurs one will love all beings, not because it’s wanted, but because this is the way love rolls when aspirations are in harmony with love…

Perimeter of Love

With an unlocked heart things going on around you may not change, but what does change is the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at life from within the perimeter of love…

I’m sure everyone has heard the expression “the circle of life” but here’s a little different spin on it as “the perimeter of love”. Think of it as though life is a circle, when you love you’re inside the perimeter, and when you don’t it means you’re living mostly from “I” which automatically puts you beyond the perimeter. Outside the perimeter was how the first forty nine years of my life were lived. Occasionally I was within the perimeter, but not very often; this was because my “I” conditioning kept my heart locked. It’s nearly impossible to enter the perimeter of love from “I” because “I” is the lock that keeps that heart closed. When you see this, it gives you something tangible to work with which is the key to unlocking the heart, and with an unlocked heart you’ll be surrounded by the perimeter of love.

Life and love can be synonymous, but only when you’re within the perimeter of love, and you can only be there when the heart is unlocked and open. The locks of the world that keep you outside loves perimeter are many. It’s as though you’re on the outside of a house looking in through a window. Love unlocks the heart to see things that were previously unseen, and this is what opens you to see as if you’re inside the house looking out. When you’re on the inside looking out it’s because the heart is unlocked. With the heart unlocked it may not change what’s going on around you, but it does change the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at life from within the perimeter of love…

Divine Truth Guidance

Divine truth guidance puts you in harmony with life. Understand though it’s not life that does anything to you, but if you’re not guided by divine truth it will certainly seem like it does…

Divine truth is in place to put you in harmony with life and it’s also in place to offer protection against certain behavior. When you’re guided by divine truth, its boundaries allow for life to be lived to the fullest. But the mind has to be open and free flowing for guidance to this truth to take place. There’s heart truth that aligns with divine truth, but it’s often missed because the mind comes into play which blocks the awareness of it. The more you’re guided by selfish behaviors, the less chance there is to be in harmony with divine truth. When things are used and abused to satisfy self, this blocks life from being truthful. The animal realm is guided by truth naturally, that’s why there’s perfect balance. Unfortunately the human conditioning relies too much on the intellect and not enough on divine truth.

Life is guided in one of two ways, either the guide allows alignment with divine truth or not. A quiet mind can see this to a degree and slowly stops doing the things that block divine truth from being your guide. As long as you’re alive life will be lived, but in what way determines your actions and consequences. Cheat on your spouse and regardless if you get caught or not you’ll be out of harmony with the truth that’s in place. So take heed and understand life never does anything to you, but if you‘re not guided by divine truth, it will certainly seem like it does…

Hearing Silence

We live an existence torn between hearing the silence of the Universe and attaching to the sounds of the world. By being aware of the first part the energy necessary that prevents the second naturally occurs…

The selfish and destructive Conditioned Mind behavior that was in control for most of my life has settled in a place of neutrality. I would never say the conditioning is gone forever because by attaching to it as so would give it the needed energy to return. It’s very important to see the present moment as being the point of contact where the world is connected to, but don’t make it into a story. We live an existence torn between hearing the silence of the Universe and attaching to the sounds of the world. By being aware of the first part the energy necessary to prevent the second naturally occurs; truth settles in stillness.

You will never stop the sounds of the world or there will never be an entire world of love. You can however hear your own heart and not be a part of the world’s noise by keeping your own house in order instead of being drawn to the noise and trying to change everything else. When you are mindful of your own conditioning and have awareness of the place where there’s a connection to the world, this is the space where the world is offered your true self. But make no mistake this doesn’t occur by trying to change the world or by ignoring its sounds, it simply happens by hearing the silence of the Universe beneath all the noise the world offers…

Made Up Point of View

When there’s awareness that your point of view is made up, stillness takes its place. This stillness is always there, but not experienced because your made up point of view blocks it…

Without a made up point of view, everyone would see life through the eyes of stillness which by the way are the eyes of love; because of a made up point of view this isn’t seen. Made up points of view are from the energy of unconsciousness. This makes everything that happens in life about your made up point of view, but it isn’t truly ever about what is seen, it‘s not about anything in particular except when a point of view is made up.

A made up point of view is what makes the mind attach to thoughts, and those attachments cause the associated thoughts to control your life. What is really happening is this, life just happens it’s not personal, it’s also not about anything you think it is. It’s not about right, wrong, love, hate, good or bad, it‘s mostly about learning to understand your minds true nature of stillness and not being lead around by made up points of view; whatever they are. When there’s awareness of this you will truly be still; a stillness that has always been there, but was never experienced because of a made up point of view which doesn’t allow stillness to be experienced…

One Perspective Limit

No perspective is wrong, but if you only have one it limits life, and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from that one perspective…

Changing perspectives is what makes life different, but it doesn’t make what happens different, it only makes the perspective of what happens different. If you’re locked into a certain perspective, this only allows one way of seeing things. The more your perspective is based on 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 from a perspective of only one way, it limits life to that one way. Most times this perspective isn’t even your own, it’s formed from someone else’s perspective, opinion, teaching, book, video, or discussion.

To be fixated on one perspective keeps you entrapped to the results of only that perspective; think about how limiting that 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 through one perspective, how limiting this is will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the minds grip lessens can assist in possibly altering a one perspective mind set, but for this to occur there has to an inkling there’s another way to see things. It’s not that your way is wrong, it’s just that having only one perspective limits life, and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from that one perspective…

Spiritual Waste

If you sit you’ll develop discipline so you can watch your thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you’ll see the spiritual waste held in the mind…

With the emergence of the social media, there’s so much information available on spirituality that it really needs to be investigated before you consider using it to assist in your development. Here is the definition of waste: rubbish, garbage, trash, nonsense. To see if the information you are using to develop discipline is beneficial, there can’t be anything associated with it that forms attachment. Methods, programs, guru’s, life coaches, teachers, or any other form of waste that’s used to keep you attached just keeps you entrapped to the very thing you are trying to break free of. Just as there’s a lot of “fake news” out there today, there’s also a lot of fake information on spirituality. Attachment is something that’s not truly understood by many people, and so most of the information out there is wasteful that keeps you in prison in some way. Those telling you to buy their book, pay for retreats run by paid speakers, or follow (instant attachment) a program are clever to a fault, with the fault being keeping you in prison.

The only thing needed to do is look within so a millisecond of space is created between your thoughts. Once this occurs and there’s awareness of it, slowly there will be more and more space; it takes nothing but awareness to create this space. The waste out there that someone’s program, book, method or whatever has your answer will keep you attached to what you are trying to break free from. I know people defend their so called guru or people they follow adamantly, but it’s only because there’s no awareness of the prison they’re in. Sit often and just watch the thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you will see all the spiritual waste you’re attached to and the prison you’re in…

Inner Discord

Existence is continuous until one day it’s not. Inner discord occurs because of the attachment to self. Without this attachment, the beauty of life unfolds as the inner discord falls away…

The real cause of any issue with life is not with what actually happens, but how we attach a self. Life occurs regardless of the self, but what attachment does is it creates inner discord by isolating yourself and making it personal. Life is neutral until there’s attachment, it then becomes an event that’s all about the self. Without self, inner discord doesn’t happen, life just occurs. I’m not insinuating a self exist or not, all I’m saying is the attachment to self is at the root of all inner discord. If you want to be free of this inner discord, you‘ll have to be free of the attachment to self.

Stay anchored in the moment and you‘ll stop creating your inner discord. This is regardless of what happens in life, unless you make it about life doing something to you. Life does nothing to no one. It’s each individual alone from the way they‘re conditioned that makes life seem as though there’s inner discord. This occurs because without an anchor everything that happens in life is made into a burden of something to do. But understand, whatever goes on between your ears about what you think you have to do, that is inner discord; it’s something created from within yourself. Don’t blame life for the inability of not staying anchored and being left unprotected. Find your anchor so you‘re planted and stay there as much as possible. The more you stay anchored the fewer stories there will be in your life and the less it will seem like there’s inner discord…

Inner Brightness

It’s the outer view of satisfying “I” that keeps you from seeing the inner brightness of your own innate beauty; this beauty is a result of the brightness that comes from looking inward…

No one is more special than another in this existence, but there are some who do see their inner brightness beyond the outer view. Although no is chosen, I would say what makes this happen for some and not others is some are more inclined to not attach to an outer view which allows them to see much more inner brightness than if you are in the grip of an outer view. I have lived two existences, one which was from the outer view where there was much self inflicted suffering. The other is the one I’m living now which is an inner view in the direction of seeing my own inner brightness. The differences in the two views is one created suffering and was done in ignorance, the one today is lived in awareness of the ignorance. Today my view is as it is because the outer distractions don’t control me as they once did. I’m still in the world, but I’m not as controlled by it.

The inner brightness that is seen is a by product of awareness as the outer view is let go of. This opens up space to allow wisdom and insights to occur. This opening is directly linked to the letting go of “I”. It’s “I” that attaches and is the cause of all suffering. Ever so slowing when one begins to look inward the outer distractions of “I” fall away. To me this is what was revealed to the great mystic’s; they were considered special, but all they did was look inward. This looking inward is
available to all, but you will have to overcome the outer view of “I” to not be distracted from it. It’s the outer view that keeps you from the inner brightness of seeing your own innate beauty, and it will only be seen when you look inward…