Mother Love

Mother love is special because of the connection she has with her child. This connection is unconditional love beyond what words can describe and it’s a love formed in the womb because mom and the child are one…

Mother love is something that needs no words to describe. It’s a love that’s forever binding regardless of what happens. Watching a mother care for her child is so beautiful and this isn’t limited to humans. Mom loves from instincts, it’s a love that occurs from within. Watching a mother take care of her child is the love that everyone should have for each other. This love is the same love that the Universe has for each and everyone of us. A Mother loves all her children the same as the Universe loves all of us the same. Mom doesn’t see color and never puts conditions on her love, she just loves. If we are to survive as a species we will need to go beyond the limits of the mind and see how to love unconditionally. We’ll need to observe how a Mother loves and mimic that with all humanity.

A Mother’s love never ends, there may be disappointment in her heart at times, but that’s only because she wants what’s best and it’s the love in her heart crying out. Mankind is on a course of self destructing and it’s because of the lack of love in their heart. If it’s not seen how the Universe is our mother and we are all brothers and sisters, our separation will be the end of us. Mom is always there for us as is the Universe, but unfortunately we are given enough rope to hang ourselves and that’s exactly what many do. Watch a Mother give birth and see the sparkle in her eyes, it’s the same sparkle (the stars) the Universe has for all humanity. This sparkle arises because there’s no thought of herself, the child born is just an extension of herself; they are one. Only when we all see each other in the same way will we as a species turn our attention to loving each other unconditionally; seeing the sparkle of oneness in each other’s eyes…

A Mirage Reality

Determined Focus

Unforeseen Perils

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Narrowed Choices

Going through life without an understanding of how your mind works makes your existence much more difficult because it narrows your options, and narrowing your options narrows your choices…

We discover the cause of all suffering when we are truly able to see our mind for what it is and understand how it creates feelings and emotions that aren’t real. They feel real because of what our association is to them, but their reality is only relative to our thinking and the association to our identity. When this is discovered and we disassociate with this kind of thinking, we become more aligned with the Creative Intelligence of the Universe which to me is love; love is what gives us so many more choices in life.

When we stop believing in the nonsense of the self created world of thought, we learn how to allow love to be our guide. This is when we will be able to see our thoughts for what they truly are, disassociate them from who we are and separate the ones that cause suffering and aren’t beneficial to anyone; this is when our suffering ceases to exist. This is not some belief, it’s something factual; I know this because it’s my direct experience. A thought cannot cause anything unless it’s given the energy needed to do so and this is what determines if the thought is held onto or not. The more it’s held onto, the more control it has over you. In the awareness of this is one’s freedom. It’s one’s own ignorance of this that creates one’s own suffering, and the suffering is caused by going through life without an understanding of how the mind works because it narrows your options, and with narrowed options your choices are limited…

Present Moment

Our "I AM"

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Beyond Opinions

 

True Reliable Options

Reaching is the issue not the thing reached for. Not everything one thinks is a reliable option truly is. It will take a very settled mind to see if what you’re reaching for is truly a reliable option…

Do what you think is a reliable option for your well being, but it needs to be investigated to see if what you’re doing is truly reliable and not just a story of what you think. Many people play the lottery to become rich so to become rich becomes a so called reliable option. Sex is often used as being a so called reliable option as is the spiritual path. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, and also their counter parts (their programs) are used as a reliable option, but as the results of these options may be different, the prison they keep you in is the same. Working out and healthy eating habits are reliable options, but many attach a story to them and negate their reliability. I know many people are vegans and I have no opinion either way, but no where have I ever read that Jesus or the Buddha used this as a reliable part of their practice. All I’m saying is what I’ve found to be truly reliable needs no story or attachment for certain results.

I can only share my experience and I’ve found reaching for anything in whatever form it takes on is not truly reliable. The reaching is the issue, not the thing being reached for. To me in the space of just being with what arises in the present moment is truly reliable. Not everything you think is reliable truly benefits your life. It will take a very settled mind to see the subtleness of the attachment to things that are deemed reliable. I say if you’re reaching for something regardless of what it is, it’s not a reliable option for your well being. This is because the reaching itself is the issue as it keeps you in a mental prison…

Instinctive Flow

 

A Selfish View

There’s not much life in a selfish view. What happens with a selfish view is the free flowing energy of truth is cut off. A selfish view always causes suffering, truth alleviates it…

A selfish view is what causes one to get locked into only seeing things from the side of suffering. It matters little what that selfish view is, as it’s the rigidness of being in a selfish mode that doesn’t allow free flowing energy. The is what happens when a story is created and it becomes a selfish view of what life is about in any particular moment. The selfishness become deeply ingrained as one becomes emotionally tied into whatever the selfish view is focused on. It’s very difficult to not attach to things that makes up a story that is held onto, but you can have compassion, passion, and genuine love for something without attaching to it and being controlled by a selfish mind.

To me, the selfish view is the normal view of many people and it’s why many suffer unnecessarily. I’ve noticed this occurring in so many lives and I can see the suffering it’s causing. Unfortunately those in the midst of this selfish view cannot see it. Nor can one pull themselves out of it until the selfish view is seen as the cause of suffering. The selfish mind doesn’t allow the openness needed to be free from attachment, and since attachment is the root of suffering, suffering is inevitable. The tighter the grip of something the more one is trapped in a selfish view and the less free flowing energy there is in one’s life. There’s not much life in a selfish view because what happens is the free flowing energy of truth is cut off, The selfish view always causes suffering, truth alleviates suffering…

Velcro Mind

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Conflicted Status

There’s no harmony when selfish energy is running the show. Simply put without harmony we have everyone going in different directions trying to attain a certain selfish status…

Nothing really means all that much in the grand scheme of life when it comes to achieving a certain status in our society. Not that there’s anything wrong with this, but it doesn’t equate to anything except to selfish energy. This energy is what actually makes selfishness what it is; it creates conflict. When selfish energy is embraced, it creates an I am special aura or a look at me persona, but the truth of the matter is, when it’s time to leave this world nothing is taken with you. I’ve learned one very important lesson in my life and that is my life has nothing to do with me. I say this in the sense of what any life is about. Life itself doesn’t really care what occurs, it’s selfish energy that makes it important by the story it creates of “I”. It attaches to “I” and adds all kinds of things that creates a look at me persona. A celebrity status goes to most people’s head, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Just loving and keeping things in their proper perspective is what gets it done for me, with the “it” being a level of quietness that doesn’t need a selfish story to be.

Anything added to life doesn’t really enhance it in any way. Being with life as it is and not needing it to be of a certain status is so much more beneficial as an energy than putting out selfish energy. So much of selfish energy is reinforced by ”I” and it’s why the world is the way it is. Selfishness can’t exist without a certain energy that feeds it. Without awareness of this, just by the design of idolizing, selfish energy is constantly reinforced. I’m right and you are wrong energy is also the kind of energy that’s in place and it makes for many selfish charged situations. There’s no harmony when selfish energy is running the show. Simply put, without harmony we have a conflicted world trying to attain a certain selfish status…

 

Settled Mind Truth

Meditation allows for one to go inward so truth is revealed. A truth that requires a settled mind so it can arise…

When there’s no need for reading, writing, reciting prayers, attending meetings, helping others or anything else for that matter, it allows for the so called mud in the lake (the mind) to settle. The mud will never settle and the water will remain cloudy until there’s stillness that allows the water to stop moving. Most ignorance arises from thinking the mud will settle on its own although the lake is constantly being stirred up.

The Conditioned Mind creates ignorance, this ignorance creates suffering which blocks truth from being seen and keeps one on the Merry-go-round of the Conditioned Mind. Until this is seen the mud in the lake will never settle and one will never be able to get off the Merry-go-round as you remain a slave to the conditioning and ignorance of yourself and others. But if it’s learned to say yes to what is, what stirs the mud (the mind) that holds you captive to your own ignorance will settle…

Being Right

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Light of Life

Conflicts Within

Existence is continuous until one day it’s not. It becomes conflicted within because of the attachment to self. Without this attachment, the beauty of life unfolds as the conflicts within fall away…

The real cause of any issue with life is not with what actually happens, but how we attach a self to it. Life occurs regardless of the self, but what attachment does is it makes it conflicted within by isolating it and making it personal. Life is neutral until it’s attached to, then it becomes an event that’s all about the self. Without self, conflicts within don’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 conflicts within; if you want to be free of the conflicts within, you‘ll have to be free of the attachment to self…

Quietness is Our Teacher

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Created Shackles

Whatever it is that holds you captive becomes your shackle. If you don’t stop making what arises a shackle and make room in your heart for love, you’re the one who will suffer the most…

The choice to hold on to something and make it a shackle is the cause of suffering. There really isn’t a choice in this because of the way the Conditioned Mind controls. Suffering is inevitable when the Conditioned Mind makes everything a shackle. If this is to change, you’ll have to make room in your heart so your shackles are replaced by stillness and love. There’s no way around this, make whatever you want a shackle, but understand when it passes something else will replace it. Today it’s politics, tomorrow it’s the job, the co-worker, traffic, or something else; this will never change until there’s room in your heart for love. If you hold on to a person and loathe them, you’re blocking the space for a loving heart, this is strong language, but it’s true.

Love of the heart can only happen without any conditioning. The Conditioned Mind doesn’t allow most to see this, it prefers to create shackles. I can say I have love for all beings, what I don’t love is the conditioning in place. I understand it and I choose not to create shackles and feed into conditioned nonsense. To hold on to things is to suffer regardless of who or what you’re holding on to because it becomes your shackle. This is truth; you cannot be separate from the energy that is in you. Stop creating shackles and make room in your heart for love. If you don’t you’re the one who will suffer the most by creating shackle after shackle of what you’re holding on to…

AHA Moments

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Everything Changes

Life is based on the inevitable fact that “everything changes” and regardless if this fact is accepted or not, change still happens. Resistance to change is where one’s problem lies…

Everything changes, understanding this one phrase helps one understand one of the most important aspects of life. The more one is resistant to change, the more discontented one will be because of the nature of things. The tighter one holds onto resisting change, the tighter will be the chains that imprison you.

Understand nothing stays the same, ever. Our life is constantly changing, so why resist something that’s going to happen anyway. You can want something to stay as it is, but that will not stop it from changing. You can go to the gym to keep your body a certain way, but eventually your body will change, no matter how hard you work out. There’s nothing wrong with working out hard, just understand one day your body will not be the way it is now. If you can’t accept this, you will have a difficult time. You can substitute the working out with anything. How about losing your hair, or getting older looking, or getting sick, or having a loved one get sick or die with or without warning. This list can go on forever, you get the point.

Change happens all the time, it’s inevitable. Acceptance of it is optional as is the suffering that goes along with it. You will have to make the decision on whether you will resist change or if you will come to an understanding that “everything changes” and there isn’t a damn thing you can do that will stop it from happening; no matter how much you try to resist it. Change is a natural part of life. It’s inevitable it will happen and unless it’s resisted, you can remain free as if the change had never occurred, but it will take an understanding that “everything changes” no matter how much one doesn’t want it to be so…

Humanity's Conflict

 

No True Separation

 

Seeing the Light

Everyone is born of light, it’s the conditioned mind that keeps one in darkness. The teachings of Jesus show us how to love so we can see this light, but many ignore these teachings and remain in the dark…

We live in a world designed for darkness, not evil, but darkness, there is a difference. Just because a person is unconscious doesn’t make them evil. If you look around, the self centeredness of our world is rampant. People go out of their way to deny Jesus’s teachings of love and thus they deny themselves love’s light, but it’s only because they’re unaware that it’s their own darkness that blocks them from seeing the light. If there is an evil in this world this is it.

Jesus pointed and gave us a way to our own heart through his love. He gave us a path to the Father (Universal Love) through his love for us and this is a path to our own inner light. Ignore this if you want and remain in the conditioned darkness, but understand you not only bring suffering to yourself, but you bring suffering to all humanity because darkness keeps one from spreading the light to others, and although Springtime and Easter are synonymous with renewal and light, it will only be when unconditional love is truly understood that one will see the light…

True Peace

 

Aligned Intelligence

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Seeking Pleasure

The most important thing to understand about seeking pleasure is the less attachment to “I” there is the less you will seek because without “I” there’s no one who needs the next pleasure…

Seeking pleasure is so enticing because it actually feels good; this is why seeking it is so powerful. There’s only issue with this because of the impermanent nature of pleasure. It simply will not last, it has no staying power so something will always be sought almost immediately following the attainment of each pleasure. Think about it, with all the pleasures that have been attained throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the pleasure now that it brought at that time. Most times even if the same exact pleasure is physically repeated it’s usually not as pleasurable as the first experience. I used so many things as I was seeking pleasure, but it was never lasting; the need for the next pleasure always arose. This went on all the time, attaining one pleasure after another and never being satisfied. 

I’ve come to understand that seeking pleasure is the main reason people start using alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, money, tobacco products and an array of other things. If pleasure wasn’t sought, nothing would be reached for so there would never be seeking; unfortunately the seeking of pleasure has its way with people. It’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place since existence began. 

I know seeking pleasure is what controlled me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with “I”. Without “I” no one is there to seek. Even with this understanding seeking pleasure doesn’t just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me, the most important thing to understand about this is, the less attachment there is to “I” the less you will seek pleasure because without “I” there’s no one who needs the next pleasure…

Loving Heart

 

Mind Craving

The pleasures of the world take on many forms, but it’s the craving of the mind that makes one seek them. This craving can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there’s nothing to crave…

One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it craves pleasure most of the time. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse crave for pleasure. The mind wants to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasant ones. It spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up along side you, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it. The reason for doing this is strictly to satisfy the mind crave for pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of the way it has been conditioned to crave.

Pleasure seeking craving is not in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think craving pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle and it loses its grip on you, you will see the fallacy of this. True pleasure is in stillness not in things; craving stillness is not the same craving for what the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. It’s only in stillness that cravings are truly satisfied, not because it’s given something, but because in stillness cravings don’t materialize so there’s nothing that needs to be satisfied…

Inner Battles

Nothing that happens in life creates an inner battle unless your own mind allows it. This is the insanity of a Conditioned Mind, its self destructive solutions are from within and they take away your peace…

The bottom line for me is I’ve found a practical way to minimize the inner battles in my life that caused my own destruction. Which by the way is my own mind creating an inner battle telling me it’s needed to cope with life; a life that was controlled by a destructive mind set. My own mind created all the inner battles that went on by choosing actions I thought I wanted to do, but my choices always caused suffering. I developed a mind that told me to do things that were self destructive. From relationships, to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and a slew of other things, nothing was ever chosen that was beneficial for me; my choices always seemed to cause more harm than good. How this mind set developed I’m not sure, but I do know this, it can be described as pure insanity.

Many years ago although it wasn’t a white light experience, an inner urging occurred that was tired of all the destructive behavior. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, but I did know I needed to find a way to bring peace into my life. A label didn’t need to be applied to what happened to me. All that was needed was for me to know was my behavior which was once totally self destructive was no longer this way. This is why labels and what others do isn’t a concern of mine. Because I know for years my own mind allowed these things to create battles within myself and because of the shift that has occurred, there’s an awareness that inner battles don’t have to be created anymore. The bottom line is this, when I have an issue with something it’s my own self destructive mind that creates a battle which means I’m not a peace, but now because there’s awareness of this I don’t allow mind created inner battles so there’s peace. So again the bottom line is to not create inner battles. All I ever wanted in my life was peace, but I didn’t know it was my own mind that was the cause of why there wasn’t any…

Impermanence

Thoughts Traps

Thought traps are endless, but understand the traps come from your own mind. Even though there are conditioned triggers, it’s because of the attachment to thoughts is why there are traps…

If you’re practicing living a spiritual life, but you don’t know your own mind, it’s like wanting to be healthy, but not reducing the amount of junk food you eat; your results will be non existent. If you don’t notice the thought traps, the whole point of any practice will be missed. This is because the trap of thoughts for things outside makes looking inward difficult. There are so many things in place that prevent looking inward from happening, if it doesn’t happen you’ll remain in bondage to your thought traps. The traps aren’t real because when there’s even the slightest opening to allow what’s within to be seen, the expansion beyond the thought traps begins.

Thought traps are very enticing, if they weren’t the percentage of conscious and unconscious beings would be reversed. It’s not this way because the thought traps are in control; these traps are only real because of perception. There’s no denying they’re there, but they’re in control because there’s a fictitious belief the traps are needed. We alone are the creators of this and if one doesn’t have an open mind, the thought traps will continue their onslaught of control. To me, the only way around this is to develop awareness of the thought traps…

Automatic Results

 

No Lack-Only Love

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Velcro Mind

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Hearing Life

If things aren’t done that put you in harmony with life, it will be impossible to hear what life has to say. For this to change it’s imperative to learn about one’s own mind which will go a long way in allowing one to hear what life is saying…

Just observe how the mind justifies all that it does. It has never been trained to be still so it creates most of our problems just so it has something to do. It says to do something and turns around and questions why it was done. It should be treated as a separate entity as if it’s the enemy because upon further review it will be seen that it is. The mind is not truly the enemy, it’s the way it has been conditioned, that’s the true enemy. 

This conditioning blocks the true nature of the mind from arising. It’s only conditioned to be this way because of all the surrounding noise, but it is we ourselves (unconsciously) who listen to habitual mind patterns. Learning about one’s own mind is a way to undo what we ourselves have done. This learning of one’s mind is not about great secrets, it’s more so about getting an understanding of why the things that are done don’t put one in harmony to hear what life is saying. When this is understood, why one responds to things a certain way will be known. After all, if one doesn’t do the things in their life that allows harmony with it, one will never hear what life has to say…

Truth

 

Never Ending Chase

The belief that the next thing attained will make you complete is what keeps you in the mode of the never ending chase. The chasing stops when it’s realized you’re already complete…

There will be completeness when this happens next, the next fix, the next satisfaction, or the next whatever is used for the never ending chase. Chasing what’s next goes on to infinity, it never ends until it’s realized there is no end and one will always be chasing that which is already here; who is the chaser and why all this chasing. Either there’s completeness now with the way things are or there isn’t. You may think chasing the next whatever will bring utopia, but it never ends because there’s nothing to truly attain that ends the chase. The Conditioned Mind will tell you different and that’s why there’s chasing. What really needs to be asked is who is doing the never ending chasing and why? The fictional character of self that’s been made up to think things need to be a certain way for completeness is just that, fictional and this is why there’s the never ending chase.

The self that makes up this nonsense that you’re incomplete is just a story of incompleteness; this is what keeps one chasing. The dream of attaining a certain status, the next promotion, the trophy partner, the next book, the next, the next, the next, whatever keeps you in the never ending mode of the chase. A chase that will either end because this is realized or because life in this forms ends. The chase will end one day. How it ends will be determined if you spend your entire life chasing after that which is already here or if you stop chasing because it’s realized you‘re already complete…

Old Habits Reality

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Inner Light

Inner light is the true essence of all beings. The only reason there’s darkness is because the light is looked for outer. When there’s awareness of your inner light, it instantly replaces darkness…

There needs to be awareness of the inner light of the heart so the dark places of the mind dissipate. The light is always on just waiting to replace darkness, it never goes out. When you live from the mind the thought realm is allowed to take over and it becomes very difficult to see your inner light. This inner light is what turns away the darkness of an unconscious mind state; this is the world of the outer answers. As long as answers are sought outer, darkness will remain. Darkness creates a world that’s mind based and this is what blocks awareness of inner light. 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 certain way occurs darkness remains because it’s mind based.

Inner light 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 light needs to be turned on. Light always replaces darkness, unless one’s bulb is burnt out; this is our path to make sure the inner light is always lit regardless of the surrounding darkness. As your light remains lit, more people from the darkness will see it and be drawn to you. When this occurs it will draw others to you as the light expands. Maybe one day, one light at a time there won’t be any darkness to replace because everyone will see their inner light…

Inner Validation

 

Selfish Fixations

As we grow up we’re conditioned in selfish ways that allow for our fixations to be as they are. Simply put, if our selfish fixations were based in love humanity would be much different…

As I look back, I see how many of my fixations arose from selfish conditioning, this was just part of what was there growing up. Nothing particularly right or wrong in this, especially because there wasn’t much that could have been done differently. It’s very difficult to act in a loving manner if that’s not what’s in place growing up. Some things are learned naturally, but everything takes some conditioning associated with it. If you’re learning how to golf, at first it’s awkward with no knowledge as to the best way to swing a club, but the more you do it the more awareness of how to swing there is. This way of learning is beneficial when what you’re learning is based in love. Part of the problem is when what becomes fixated on isn’t based in love because it seems natural. This is why it’s so hard to change. I knew what was right (loving) and what was wrong (selfish) growing up, but doing what was loving was not what I was conditioned to do so being selfish became natural for me; there wasn’t anybody to tell me different.

To say the least, these selfish fixations caused much suffering because there wasn’t any room for much else to be seen. This is the merry-go-round most people are unknowingly on and it’s a direct result of why humanity is the way that it is. If we all grew up with our fixations based in loved, humanity would be much different, it’s that simple. I know this because fifteen years ago I began seeing things differently (of love) and lo and behold things began changing. It doesn’t mean it’s always this way, but just as it is with learning to swing a golf club properly, it takes practice. And for me it’s done so the loving behavior becomes as natural as the selfish fixations were…

Truthful Vision

Your answers will always be within yourself, you just need to make sure the tools that are being used are showing you a truthful vision of what is the most beneficial way to live…

Many years ago I had a definite vision of the direction I wanted my life to go as I began the study of my own mind. There weren’t any lofty goals or some great state of mind to attain to make my life about something in particular, all I had was a truthful vision of peace; a peace that eluded me for most of my life, this is still my vision today. Just because you’re on a so called spiritual path, it doesn’t mean what you’re doing is truly beneficial. I did things for many years that I was told were beneficial to me and it turned out not to be so; they were things that actually keep me suffering. I won’t go into details, but what I do today is beneficial and how I know this is because I’m at peace and I don’t have a real desire for anything else. I have a passion in my heart to share my experience with others, but it’s not an aching as I don’t need this moment to be different. If you’re not looking for anything that’s how you will know if you have a truthful vision as opposed to one made up by the Conditioned Mind.

You may want to be the most spiritual person in your circle, you may be reading all the right books, quoting all the right people, and putting all your energy into a so called practice, but there’s only one question and that is can you stop it all and still be at peace? If not, what you’re doing is only being used to distort your vision. I had a distorted vision for forty nine years so I know what I’m talking about. Try another book, a program, therapy, another pill, dieting, meditation, drugs, alcohol, and on an on, but when the tasks is complete and you’re living your daily life if you don’t have a clear vision of peace, what you’re doing isn’t working. There are many pointers in life, but your vision becomes distorted by thinking the pointers are the answers. The answers are simply within, you just need to make sure the tools you’re using are showing you a truthful vision that provides you with the most beneficial way to live…

Pleasure Chasing

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

We live in a pleasure chasing society. When it’s cold we chase warmth, when it’s hot we chase cool. Pleasure chasing 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 pleasure chasing 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. When you can accept things as they are that’s when you stop pleasure chasing…

False Thoughts

When truth is revealed no longer do you hold onto your thoughts because it’s understood most of them are false…

Don’t believe every thought because they tell you things that are false. Your thoughts will tell you the past is real yet the only place the past exist is in the mind. Your thoughts will tell you to fear, yet the only thing you have to fear is fear itself. Your thoughts will 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 in a constant state of flux. Your thoughts will tell you I think therefore I am, but thoughts have nothing to do with I am. Your thoughts will make up beliefs that everything desired on the outside is needed, but if none of those desires come to pass, nothing happens. Even if they do get fulfilled, the satisfaction is fleeting at best. Then there’s the thoughts of the so called ego, this is like the bogeyman under the bed, it’s there until you look under the bed. Also, there’s no need to get rid of thoughts as they only exist because you think they do.

There’s the image in the mirror who is thought to be given a name for identification purposes. If the name is different the thought is we are someone else, but that’s only a thought because the form remains the same. There will be thoughts that are held onto that are false. Unfortunately the more your thoughts are attached to, the truer they seem. To truly be free, your false thoughts will have to be exposed. This doesn’t mean you find out you don’t exist, what you find out is you don’t exist in the way you thought you did. When this truth is revealed no longer do you hold onto your thoughts because it’s understood most of them are false…

Base of Stillness

The energy that unites and draws humanity together is the base of stillness. When you’re in this space others are attracted to it as it’s the one place where there’s unity simply because of the base of stillness…

It’s very important to have a base of stillness so people know there’s a place they can turn to. Everyone needs a place where they know they can go for relief from the unconscious world. It does matter what this base is, if you go to a place that’s used as distractions it may feel like relief, but it won’t be. If you get lost in something mundane, the day will go by because that’s life, but if you’re spending the same day in the base of stillness, you’ll exude peace and people will be drawn to you.

Don’t be concerned with what others think, just have stillness as your base and let no one take that away. Exuding stillness in a world that is mostly based in noise will allow others to also be in stillness which is needed for any transformation to occur. The stillness that draws someone to you is the stillness that becomes part of humanity. Life is an open experience so if you’re not learning from it you most likely have your mind made up what it’s about. When you truly see these made up stories aren’t needed, they fall away. This falling away allows life to be based in stillness. When you’re in this space others will be attracted to it as it’s the one place where there’s unity simply because of the base of stillness…

Present Moment Anchor

The mind is usually everywhere but the present moment, the body is an anchor to use in a sitting practice because there’s no way it can’t be in the present moment…

The importance of developing a sitting practice is in how this develops discipline which allows the mind to settle enough so one is in the present more often than not. The breath is used for this because it anchors you in the body which is always in the present. You never take a past or future breath, you can only take a breath in the present, this is why the breath is used. It’s the same reason chants are used. When Om is used, you don’t Om in the past or the future, you Om right now. When this is done it anchors you in the body which is always in the Now. The mind for most is constantly in the past or future. There are times when it’s present, but this is fleeting and mostly occurs because of happenstance. The body is a great anchor to use in a sitting practice because there’s no way it can’t be present. This doesn’t prevent anything from happening, but what it does do is it allows for one’s awareness to be with what’s happening instead of having resisting energy trying to use something to push it away. This resisting energy is at the core of how addictions manifest.

Besides a sitting practice, I often use the tool of simply looking down at my feet since wherever my feet are there I am; this also anchors me in the present. This is also why one uses a mindfulness practice, such as walking meditation. When you’re mindful of each step, you’re anchored in the body which as stated before, is always in the present moment. Life is magical in relation to form, but there’s nothing magical in being present for what’s actually happening as long as one is aware that it’s not happening to you, it’s just what’s happening, you just happen to be present to observe it…