Simply Learn to Sit

What you think an awakening is actually blocks you from it…when thoughts are strung together they form a story…and a story is simply that…and just because you think it…that doesn’t mean it’s the truth…

All the searching you do for answers by reading another book just adds to the confusion that’s already in place…if there wasn’t confusion the need for another book wouldn’t arise…but the minds answer to this confusion is to read another book…pure insanity…simply learn to sit…nothing else is needed…you can’t solve mind problems with the same mind that creates them…any book that’s read is just someone else’s take about something…when the mind settles truth is revealed…it doesn’t come from a book…simply learn to sit…I haven’t read a so called spiritual book in over eight years…not because I know it all…but because my answers arise from stillness…my experience has been knowledge will only take you so far…if you stay in the mind you will remain in bondage to it…the shift that occurs when one awakens is the heart opens…this has nothing to do with one’s belief in something…what you think an awakening is isn’t it…it can’t be because what you think is only a story…simply learn to sit…don’t label it…what arises has nothing to do with what you think…your label is your story…simply learn to sit…and you just may be surprised that what arises has nothing to do with someone else’s book…but this will only be seen when you simply learn to sit…

Heart Space

When a person says I want this or that, initially it’s a view from the mind. For it to become a view of the heart, I and want have to be let go of so all you are left with is space.

There are basically two ways to view this existence. One is from the mind, which is the view of ideas, concepts, beliefs, and stories, and the other is from the heart which needs none of the things listed from the mind, especially the stories. When the minds view is in control it produces stress, fear, tension, greed, anxiety and a slew of other things that don’t necessarily add anything to life. When the heart is the controlling view, there’s a tendency to create space and as one learns to sit quietly and the mind settles, space becomes the normal state. There are many agitated mind states that keeps one entrapped. These agitations will only subside when something is in place that allows them to. Living from the mind is learned and because it’s so much more influenced by the world, unconsciously it becomes the default view.

Living from the heart will have to be learned if this is to change. Any suffering that occurs is directly linked to one’s thought about it, so if you don’t have the thought of suffering than you won’t suffer. Simple, but this will only occur through understanding and learning what it will take to change the agitated mind view. Mind and heart reactions are much different and because the mind has been conditioned to fulfill I wants and desires, I becomes the core of the mind made suffering. When one says I want something, initially it’s from the mind, but for it to become of the heart two things have to happen, I and want have to be removed so all you are left with is space. Until that happens the mind view will continue its control of the way your life is lived.

Mindfully Aware of Awareness

Life will always be life and it will always be as it is, but you don’t have to be stuck in a mind state where you’re not mindfully aware of what’s actually happening; awareness aware of awareness…

To be mindful is to be aware in the present moment (Now) to what is happening while it is happening. Anything that happens in life doesn’t have any specific effect, its effect is linked to a person’s conditioning, this is why one reacts to what happens as they do. This conditioning is in place for everyone, it just manifest in different ways. The quality of how mindful one is of what’s happening while it’s happening determines the awareness of it. Before something occurs there’s always the space of stillness that it arises from so if you’re already in a distracted state of unawareness, when the next thing arises it’s immediately labeled by your conditioning. How can it not be? If one is in a mindful state of awareness or quietness and the same thing takes place, the label won’t be applied; the key here is to pay attention to things conducive to your well being. This is not always easy to see because of the conditioning in place. Many are unaware of Now so things aren’t done that are conducive to your well being, but they’re done anyway because that’s what’s in place.

Until there’s awareness of this, the same conditioned behavior will be repeated over and over.
You are always in the present moment (Now) whether you are mindfully aware of it or not. When you’re not, what arises grabs hold of you. It’s one of the reasons the Buddha said “Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts” because the unguarded thoughts control you as if you were a puppet on a string. Going beyond this is more of a mindset than effort, it’s simply being awareness aware of awareness. Stillness of each moment is where everything arises from so if you’re in harmony with this what arises will have less effect on you. Life will always be life and it will always be as it is, but you don’t have to be stuck in a mind state where you’re not mindfully aware of what’s actually happening; awareness aware of awareness…

Core Energy of Love

There’s always a core energy where life is basically lived from and this determines if the energy emitted to humanity is truly from love or from the self serving way one thinks things should be.

For years the core energy of my life was based to self serve, this didn’t leave much room for anyone else to be served, so to say the least my life was always filled with drama and chaos. This is what core energy based to self serve produces, it has to because that’s the nature of self serving energy. No one is truly at fault for this core energy, it’s basically in place because it’s the way humanity has evolved; this self serving energy is the cause of every conflict that has ever occurred.

Ever so slowly cores of love are being established and this is what’s making humanity different; it’s the only way things will become different. Core energy based in love is one of quietness, it’s not made up where one has to constantly defend that their way is the way. True love needs no defending because it’s in unity with all of life regardless of what someone else’s core energy is based in. If for some reason you’re in conflict with someone your core is not of love, it can’t be because that’s just not how love rolls; it never ever has conflict because it’s energy doesn’t allow it.

Conflicts with others are a gauge to see if your core energy is truly based in love or if it’s self serving. If there’s conflict, regardless of the other person, your energy is not based in love. You may tell yourself it is, but how can it be if there’s conflict? A conflict arises whenever something isn’t in line with the way you think it should be, but who are you to think you know how things should be. Mind your own business, take care of your core, and make sure you allow everything and everyone to be as they are because it’s then and only then that the core energy of your life will be of love and humanity will be different because of it.

Shallowness of Thought

Look beyond the shallowness of your thoughts and how they’re adhered to. It will be beyond this adherence that one’s true self emerges, if not you will remain confined to your own shallowness.

The Conditioned Mind encourages shallowness and adherence to your thoughts results in your own shallowness because it’s what’s guiding you. Is there truly a way to get beyond this shallowness, or is this just reserved for a select few? There are many who are living proof that a person can go beyond the shallowness of Conditioned Mind thoughts. One just needs to take a step back from the entanglement that’s in place. All of these entanglements are based in selfishness, with most centered on greed, hate, and delusion. This shallowness has become what the value of existence is measured by, but shallowness of a thought is valueless.

Look at the entertainment industry (sports, music, Hollywood, etc.) and how it’s adhered to, it can be called the distraction industry because that’s what it really does. It distracts you from noticing what is truly going on in your life; these distractions are adhered to daily. Because of the conditioning in place this shallowness is allowed even though it’s in everybody’s power to stop it; this shallowness has a foot hold on our throat. Please use whatever energy that can be utilized to get this message out to as many people as possible. I don’t mean preach it, or post it, I mean use your energy to go beyond the shallowness of your thoughts so you can live a message of love and be an example for others. You can only change your own shallowness, but by that changing just think of all the people that you come in contact with daily each and everyday and how many can be touched, that is if you can get beyond the conditioned shallowness that’s running the world.

Majestic Energy

Humanity’s energy is from the thought realm which attaches you to the world. As long as one is controlled by their thoughts, majestic energy can’t be primary regardless of the beliefs or concepts being held onto.

The more thoughts are held onto, the less majestic energy there will be as primary in one’s life. This is why humanity is in its current state and until this is realized individually and as a whole, things will not only remain as they are, they will get worse. I know this was the way I was until I learned why I acted the way that I did. I never understood resentment, greed, hate, jealousy or the outright deluded view of life I had. I couldn’t see the majesty that was in my heart because of all the conditioning that was in place. This blocked me from the majesty of life and as long as my thoughts were held onto this was never going to be seen.

The block to life’s majesty is also the block to one’s own majesty. Majestic energy doesn’t arise from certain beliefs and concepts, it arises from silence. It’s a shame that this isn’t understood because humanity would be so much different, we would be falling over each other in the majesty of love instead of harming each other in the name of religion or whatever else is believed to be right. There’s so much resentment and hate carried around that arises from within; it’s one’s own energy. This energy causes much harm to others, but it causes the most damage to the one who it arises from; this is mostly missed and not understood. This energy is from the thought realm which attaches to the world, and as long as one is controlled by their thoughts, the majesty of love can’t be the primary energy of life regardless of what belief or concept is being held onto.

Conditioned Momentum

The energy of the past has so much momentum because of how long it’s been in place. The Conditioned Mind uses that past momentum to process life and until this is realized the present moment will be out of reach.

Whatever your age, if you aren’t living in the present moment you are attaching to all your past experiences and this momentum keeps you living in the past. In my case there’s almost sixty years of conditioned momentum to draw on. It’s no wonder the mind has a difficult time settling; there’s just so much information for it to process and more is added every moment of every day. There’s also future energy and although this energy is different than the past, it is still attached to and drawn from the past, but the momentum goes in the direction of the future; case in point is both past and future are reaching mechanisms. Most of why something is reached for is to alter the way one wants to feel now. With all of your conditioned momentum in place, this is why when a person stops using one thing, another thing is substituted for it.

People only gain weight when they stop smoking cigarettes because their conditioned momentum carries them to reach for food as a substitute. When the mind settles and more time is spent in the present moment, the momentum lessens as does the reaching for food, hence there’s no substitution and less weight gain. The older a person is the more momentum their conditioning has. Its been proven someone who starts a sitting practice at an early age has much more stability in their life than someone who doesn’t; this is simply because there’s less conditioned momentum. Don’t make this anymore complicated than it needs to be. Live in the present moment where life only exist, or be a slave to the past and future momentum where the only thing that exist is the Conditioned Mind controlling you as if you were a puppet on string.

Unconscious Blaming

Blaming others for your discontent is the epitome of unconsciousness…Blaming yourself for your discontent is a little better, at least you are looking inward…Blame no one and there is no one to be discontented…

Pointing at others and blaming them for your arisen discontent is the epitome of unconsciousness. Even though this isn’t the fault of the pointer, it still remains the lowest form of existence because there’s not one iota of love in pointing at and blaming others for your discontentment. Hate can only arise from within you if it’s already there, this has nothing to do with who or what triggers it. It doesn’t matter what another person does, as long as there’s blaming there’s unconsciousness.
Blaming yourself for your discontent is being semi conscious, at least you are looking inward to a degree and not pointing out there at others as much. There’s still much unconsciousness here because blame is blame no matter who is being blamed. For forty nine years I was the way I was (selfish) without the slightest inkling there was another way to view life. Ten years ago I learned there was no other way for me to behave because I was unconsciously conditioned to do what I did; there wasn’t a choice. Hence although one is accountable for what they do, there’s not much responsibility if you are only doing what you have been conditioned to do.

Here’s what happens when a person wakes up. Blame no one and there is no one to be unconscious. Love becomes your base and there’s no one to blame because there’s no separation, there’s only unity. This unity is with life itself and with this comes the understanding that life is simply as it is and it never needs to be different. This is because needing it different would be blaming life itself for things not being as you think they should be, and that’s all we do when we blame is want whatever has occurred to be different…

Beyond Words

Without applying labels and stories to what happens to you, there’s existence beyond words. This is where you will be free from attachment to self and without attachment you can truly be you.

If everything that’s done is based on a self doing it you will need to keep doing to remain what you think is whole. This attachment to self is the main thing that keeps you entrapped to your own suffering. Sit with this next part and see exactly where is this self that’s so adamantly defended. What if you lost your hand would you still exist? How about both hands, now take everything away expect for the mind. Let’s just say that remains intact so there would still be existence. Even if you lost your mind there would still be existence, you just wouldn’t be aware of it. So what part of the story of this self is you? The limbs, or the story of the loss of them, the mind, or the story of the loss of it; I guess there wouldn’t be a story if there wasn’t a mind.

There’s nothing real where the self is that’s conjured up in the mind. This isn’t to say there isn’t a self, but what part of the made up story is really this self that is attached to? What part of it makes you complete or incomplete? In my case is it my role as a husband, father, son, brother and so on? Or is it my job title or my writings? All of these things exist, but they’re only a story. Without applying labels and stories to what happens to you there’s existence beyond words. This is where you will be free from attachment to the story of self and without attachment you can truly be you.

Conditioned Problems

The Conditioned Mind loves to create problems, until this is seen it will continue to do so even though everything in life is temporary, especially the Conditioned Mind problems that are created…

Problems are created by a Conditioned Mind that doesn’t accept what’s occurring in the present moment. It wants the present moment different and it actually makes you think if it was different all would be well; this is the fallacy of the Conditioned Mind. All is well right now, but because of the Conditioned Mind it’s not seen so a problem is created just so you have something to do. I’ve always had a tendency to make everything that occurs a problem, and although I don’t attach to this as I once did, many times the problem view is my first reaction.

Yesterday I was washing clothes and I put them in the dryer. When they were almost finished drying, I opened the dryer to pull out a shirt, there were blue spots on it and also on some of the other clothes. I pulled them all out and found a pen in the dryer. There was also blue ink all over the dryer. The first response was my usual this is a problem reaction, the clothes are ruined. I took a step back and took a deep breath. I grabbed a shirt and cleaned a spot, the ink came out. I then cleaned the inside of dryer. I rewashed all the clothes and an hour and a half later it was as if nothing had happened. I don’t concern myself too much with my reactions anymore, the attachment to what occurs is what I watch now. The clothes can be substituted with anything. The Conditioned Mind loves to create problems, until this is seen it will continue to do so even though nothing is truly a problem because everything passes, that is to a mind that sees just how conditioned it is.

Shining Your Light

You may not be able to do anything about the state of how things are right now, but you can live in a way that lets your light shine through by just being with what’s here now and doing what’s in front of you…

To be a light, one must simply be with what’s here now. The task at hand is what is happening right now, which is the only place that life can truly be lived. It’s also the only place that your light can shine through. If you aren’t with what’s here now, your light won’t be noticed. Life can never be better than it is right now, because right now is simply what’s here. Only the Conditioned Mind makes you think this isn’t so. Life is always lived in the here and now and that’s always what’s in front of you. You can wish for things to be different, but it’s your life that is being wished away. Learn to be with what’s simply in front of you, and your light will naturally shine through.

Our path is laid before us to do the best we can with the tools we have, but there needs to be a clear path that lets our light shine through; it’s very easy to veer off the path if there isn’t vigilance. There are many diversions that will try to dim your light. It’s as if our life is an obstacle course and it’s in place to divert us from the here and now, from our present, which is where our light is. There’s only one present and one life, but there are many many obstacles. One of the main obstacles is wanting things different. The mind tells you, if what’s here now was different than life would be better, but this is a lie. Things are the best they can be right now because of being present; this is where your light can shine. If you can’t change the way things are right now, you can at least live in a way that lets your light shine through. Just be with what’s here now simply because it’s the task at hand and be with whatever it is that life gives you that lets your light shine through…

Opinionated Desires

Life is not a made up perfection where it has to be the way one thinks it should be. Whatever arises has to be accepted exactly as it is with seeing its perfection regardless of how much it’s desired to be different.

Being human means desires will arise. Unless this is accepted exactly as it is without needing life to be a certain way so you can get a better seat in heaven or move up on the angelic chain of command, life will seem to always have some kind of struggle associated with it. One of the common traits I notice when I talk to people about the Conditioned Mind is not truly accepting the moment exactly as it is, with a self imposed label of imperfect being applied . There are so many conditioned desires engrained in each of us and if they’re not accepted as they arise, one will live a struggled existence, needing those desires to be fulfilled.

Accept each moments desires and just watch as they arise. This isn’t a right or wrong thing, it’s just part of being human and it has to be accepted if there’s to be peace in one’s life. There’s opinionated energy all around and it will cause much suffering as there will be desires to be played out fulfilling them. This desiring usually manifest as individual energy, but at times it’s both individual and collective energy, and if results of something aren’t accepted as they are, it’s because one’s opinionated desires are in control and wants different results. Anything that happens has to be accepted as it is if there is to be any semblance of contentment. This is made more difficult because as things occur and because one is human, an opinionated label is applied to what arises as being unpleasant. This makes one desire whatever arises to be different and as long as one’s energy doesn’t accept this as part of their humanness, peace and contentment will never be had.

Delusional Stories

Understanding delusion is one of the attributes of waking up, but it’s not the delusions of the world that entrap you, it’s the delusions that run your life that hold you in bondage…

A delusion is a story that runs your life. They manifest as one attaches to their thoughts. The first thought that arises about something is inconsequential, it’s the attachment to the second thought that forms the delusion. To understand delusion there must be awareness of their attachments and the way your mind works; without this the puppet on string patterns remain in place. Certain practices turns one inward to see this so if what you are doing doesn’t turn you inward, you will remain entrapped to your delusions of the Conditioned Mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the delusion. A broken mind can’t fix itself and as long as it’s reaching for something on the outside, it remains trying to fix itself and thus it remains broken. Until this truth is seen, things will stay as they are because nothing is being done to change it.

We can only know what’s being done on the surface if there’s awareness of it. What this means is one has to develop mindfulness of what they are doing as they are doing it so there’s awareness of what’s being done. If you know what you’re doing as you’re doing it, it leaves little room for delusion to arise. Mindfulness is probably the single most discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment as what is being done occurs. Delusions only occur when one lives in the story of a past or future. These mind made constructs keeps the delusion alive. The present moment can be seen without making it a story even though it passes as quickly as it arises, but the past and future can never truly be seen without a story. This is because most people lack the discipline to be present which is what causes one to live a delusional state of existence…

Only "I" Reaches

Reaching for an object happens because “I” makes this so. Only turning away from the clinging to “I” will result in true freedom and this is because it’s the turning away that provides the letting go.

When one is caught reaching for an object of desire and it takes hold of all your attention, the only way to break free of this is to have awareness you’re caught. The object doesn’t matter in the sense that it can be anything from a thing, a place, people or even yourself, but what does matter is seeing what’s making you reach for it. There are so many different objects reached for that one will have to decipher for themselves what holds them. The reaching is different only because of what’s used, but the turning away is the same as long as there isn’t substitutions. Many people stop smoking only to use food and eventually go back to smoking. This is just one example, substitution is rampant in our society and it keeps one locked into reaching and remaining on the merry go round of desire.

Turning away from whatever it is that grips you is where you will experience true freedom. Why this is difficult for most people to truly see is because “I” isn’t seen as the core of the reaching; this is why substitution is so prevalent. If the reaching results in using drugs or alcohol, when a program is substituted to stop using them, unless one turns away from “I” the drugs and alcohol will most likely be used again. Why this is so is because the program is being reached for also and although one stops using drugs and alcohol, the program is only used as substituting one object for another and doesn’t provide true freedom. Only turning away form “I” will result in freedom and that’s because without “I” there’s no reaching. This is why the object doesn’t matter, because it’s only “I” that makes one reach and it’s only in turning away from “I” that one will be free.

Making Up Truth

The value of using the body as an anchor for present moment living is it doesn’t make anything up, only the mind does so when the body is used to be present, truth arises; this is beautiful in its simplicity…

Your made up truth isn’t necessarily true, it’s true in the sense that it’s your version of truth, but the content of your made up interpretations of truth are not truth. This is because you are the creator of your truth and it’s believed wholeheartedly, but it’s only your interpretation. This is what directs your energy and how your life is lived. The thing to also investigate is how much you make up. There’s the parents truth, the childhood one, the teen and young adult truth. There’s the boy meets girl truth, the get married truth. The work truth, family truth, and on and on. There are so many truths and only one you, so which truth is true? If you say all of them you should be able to sense why it’s so difficult to see the true version of what’s true instead of one that’s made up. There’s the truth in there somewhere, but it probably hasn’t been discovered yet. When the real truth is discovered all the made up ones fall away.

So how would a person know what truth is? My experience has been truth is known when there isn’t a need to create it. Truth always arises, it’s never created, it’s basically what’s in the present moment. This is the value of using the body as an anchor for present moment living. The body doesn’t make anything up, only the mind does, so when the body is used to be present, truth arises; this is beautiful in its simplicity. Grasp this and making up truth will cease to exist because the need to create it won’t arise and without a made up version of truth there’s no interpretation of what is actually true…