Presented Opportunities

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

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

Understand though you can not give away what you haven’t got, so get it and give it so this world becomes a better place. As long as people are kept in the dark, darkness rules, but with awareness you can be a light. There is no greater reward then to be an instrument for goodness, a light in a world that has the shades drawn. Those shades are what keeps people in their ignorance (darkness). To watch a person change right before your eyes is amazing. I talked to a Doctor the other day talked for twenty minutes, the important thing is she was inquisitive with what has transpired in my life and I could see it in her eyes, that what we talked about made her think. She may or may not pursue looking at what happens in life as presented opportunities, but regardless the seed was planted. Whether it’s cultivated to grow will be determined by what is within her. I did my part, and just maybe a little light was shed and the shade of ignorance was lifted just enough to allow a little light in. To be a seed planter of goodness is so rewarding, but you can only give it if it’s in your heart and you will only be in your heart when life becomes your teacher and you see the opportunities to let go of “I” as life presents them…

Method or Program Bondage

If you say you understand something and add however or but, you don’t really understand it, you are just appeasing the Conditioned Mind nonsense of “I” that’s in control…

If you are following another persons method or program to live your life you are in bondage. It doesn’t matter how it’s justified (we all learn differently, not really) truth is truth and the only way it will be revealed is in stillness. You cannot attach to anyone’s method or program and have truth revealed because attaching to a method or program is a block. There’s so much reinforced unconsciousness in the world, it’s one of the reasons why I don’t offer a method or way because then I would be like everyone else and be the cause of your bondage. I just point people to stillness because that’s what I have learned to do.

Stop following others and exalting them, look to yourself for your answers. Asking yourself constantly “Is it true” or any other question is bondage because “I” is doing the questioning. Wake up! “I” is your only block to freedom, nothing else. This is not different for everyone, this is the one common trait of all unconsciousness. Stop with all the unconscious nonsense and see “I” for what it is.

No one can provide you with a method or program for your freedom. Your “I” will lie to you and tell you there’s a need to attach to something, but right now you are as complete as you are ever going to be; you just don’t realize it, and no method or program will reveal it, only stillness will. Stop following all the so call spiritual methods and simply keep your head where your feet are in the only place that exist “NOW”. It’s really heartbreaking to see how “I” is reinforced constantly by people, causing so much separation and suffering by saying things like we learn differently. The only thing different is our conditioned attachments, but the core of them is the same “I”. This is the only thing that needs to be addressed unless you want to keep chasing your tail by following someone else’s method or program because your conditioning doesn’t know how to simply be still…

Assigning Roles

We assign roles to ourselves and to others and this is what is judged. Our true essence is to love, but the noise of assigning roles blocks this from our view...

The point of this article is to show the more you attach to your assigned roles the less in touch you will be with the true essence of presence which is never assigned. It’s always there regardless of the role that's played. It is beyond all the roles. It’s this Presence that is always there regardless of your assigned role. Presence is the love from life itself, the internal now.

Whatever word you use to assign what you do in life is only the idea of what you do. If you have performed a deed that produced a child or if you adopt, you are called a parent and assigned the role of Mother or Father. Let's just say words weren't used to define this, the love for the child would not change. The true essence of life is love regardless of the role. When this is understood the true essence of presence is understood or at least you will begin to understand it.

You will never truly be your roles because the roles constantly change. Today you may be a boss, but one day you will retire. You will always be a parent, but the role changes as your children become adults; the role doesn't define the person. Everybody has a role, but they’re all different. The role only defines beliefs and ideas. Beyond all your roles there’s a presence that's always there.

Until we stop assigning roles to ourselves and others, we will always be separated from each other. We are all the same beyond our roles, but since we are not quiet enough to understand this, our assigned roles are used to judge others and ourselves; we don’t judge people we judge their assigned roles. Presence isn’t a thing so it can't be judged. Who we are is Presence so our true essence can't be judged, it’s only the assigned roles that's judged. You go to college and earn a Doctorate Degree, now your role is a doctor, your essence doesn’t change, only the idea of you does. You may one day write a book, but your true essence stays the same regardless of how many books you write or what type of degree you attain. You may even become President of the USA, but besides the role, the persons essence is just like everyone else. The roles we assign to ourselves and to others keeps loves true essence from arising and becoming visible in our life. We use roles to make life about something that it isn't by blocking out the true essence of who we and others are. So be still and understand your true self is never a role and that beyond every assigned role there’s the true essence of presence, the essence of love, the essence of stillness itself, the internal now. The noise in the head needs to be quieted to see this. When you are still you know your true essence and without a role love becomes visible for you and for all to see...

Memory Tape Reactions

We all have our memory tapes that set our reactions in motion. To be in harmony with life we need to learn what plays these tapes. A reaction can not occur if the memory tape isn't played...

You will have to understand what plays the memory tapes that takes the mind from a place of peace to an agitated state if you are to go beyond the memory tape control. It happens so fast that knowledge alone can't stop it from occurring. You can be very intelligent, but it doesn't equate to knowing how your own mind works. What's needed is Divine Intervention in the form of meditation. When you are in the realm of the thoughtless, you are touching on the Divine. If you’re not willing to develop discipline to settle your mind, agitation will be the minds default state and its memory tapes will continue to control. Your memory tapes have been in place for so long it’s not known what they are, but your reactions to life is proof that they’re in place and also in control. Subtle is the foe of the person who doesn't know their own mind for they know not what they do.

If you don't think this is so, just look at the things you do automatically in one single hour. Cell phone, facebook, eating, drinking, tv, reading, so many things are done that are a reaction to a memory tape which creates the mind agitation that starts the process in motion again and again. The only way to stop this vicious cycle is to learn how not to allow the tapes to set the process in motion. The more discipline you develop the less your memory tapes will control your reactions. If you don't develop the necessary discipline just resign to the fact that your reactions are your master and you are just along for the ride; after all developing discipline takes work and who has time for that. It doesn't have to be this way, but it will not change on its own. To be in harmony with life one must be in harmony with themselves, but without the necessary discipline to allow this to happen your memory tapes will continue to run the show...

A Moments Blessing

Our most precious gift is one moment. If it’s something taken for granted it’s because of our conditioning, but a grateful heart knows without the blessing of one moment our life would not be...

The one thing that is taken for granted the most in life is the blessing of one moment. Without it obviously there is no life. It occurs without any thought that it’s happening. It’s a given that it will happen and for the most part it does regardless if there’s awareness of it of not, but it’s something that shouldn't be taken for granted. It’s not something that will go on forever, it’s not a given and one day there will be the last one. Don't wait until that time to realize you are not ready for the last one. If you understand each moment is a blessing when the time comes for the last one you will be grateful for all the ones that came before, not the ones that you will never have. 

There may have been many, but what did you do with them? Did you take them for granted, and if you did who is at fault for that? Life is in the hands of each individual to the extent of how it is lived. Not in its longevity, but in the way that you are aware of the blessing you have been given. It all begins with one moment and it ends with one moment, it’s in this awareness that it’s seen each one is a blessing. Even if life is not  as you would like, the fact that you are alive is a blessing. 

You don’t have to look at it in this way, but if you don't than in what way will you look at it? You did not earn your life. You do nothing for it to happen. Whether you act from love or are selfish, the moment is still your blessing, but alas when the last one is taken will you have truly lived and will you be happy to have been given your blessing or will you be wishing that you had one more moment to do the things you didn't do? Live your life now, it’s not about where you go or what you do, but more so in being aware of the blessing of one moment and understanding when it’s your time for the last one you are grateful for all the ones that came before...

I Self Dilemmas

The I Self mind is the creator of all your so called dilemmas. When there’s existence to fulfill the Divine Principle of Love, there won’t be a need for your I Self to create dilemmas…

There’s one thing that you can rely on when it seems as though nothing is working out the way you think it should or when it seems as though the stars are misaligned and you are stuck in a Conditioned Mind Pattern. Although it may seem like this is a state of gloom and doom, but on the contrary it’s the building block to a more useful and peaceful life. The one thing I have found to get me beyond this I Self dilemma is an understanding of the Divine Principle of Love, which is always available.

I can’t tell you how many times love has pulled me out of an I Self dilemma. Regardless of what story you make to create your world, the Divine Principle of Love is in control of all that is. It’s this connection that makes us complete. The mind makes so much noise that this is difficult to grasp, but when the Divine Principle of Love becomes why you live, you will never ever have a dilemma of any kind because you will see it is love and not you that is in control. Only the I Self can have a dilemma, but if you can stay in the one place that dilemmas don’t exist you will know that regardless of what happens in life, its not the way it’s suppose to be because life isn’t suppose to be anything, but it’s the way it is and that’s the one place where all the nonsense of a Conditioned Mind can not exist. The Divine Principle of Love can only be known in the place of what is. In this place we are at one with all of life and it’s in this place that there isn’t the need for your I Self to create a dilemma…

Practical Solutions

The Conditioned Mind is the cause of why you do what you do. It’s not because of a made up God so don’t look for God to fix it. When responsibility for your actions is taken, it’s then that practical solutions will be seen…


The more you understand yourself and see the Conditioned Mind at the core of your actions, the more practical your life’s solution are. You can wait for a made up God to fix you, but the more practical approach is to take control of your actions by learning to do things that puts you in harmony with life.


If freedom is something you have an impulse for, the reason why you are not free is what you need to get in touch with. This has nothing to do with God so God won’t fix it. When this is understood and the impulse to change arises, you will have something practical to work with. It sounds simple and the practical solution is, but it’s difficult in the actual change because of the way the Conditioned Mind has evolved. The mind is a problem solving machine, but it’s the thing creating all the problems. Understand this and you will be well on way to a freedom never experienced before.


If you don’t truly get to know yourself you will constantly repeat behavior that doesn’t allow harmony with life. Not being in harmony creates the impulse which is the energy of love to be relieved of your self absorption. Until this is understood not a made up God or anything else will be able to help remove your blocks to love. Hold onto whatever beliefs you need, but understand you do what you do because of the way you have been conditioned. It’s no ones fault and until you become responsible for your own actions, your beliefs will most likely never fully go away and your freedom will be fleeting at best. Stay controlled by your Conditioned Mind and stay in the prison to the bondage of self; why this is unfortunate is because not even your made up God will be able to help you…

Two Standards One Decision

Everyday upon awakening a decision is made to begin your day between a standard that serves one or serves many, when this is understood you will see the standard to serve many is the only choice…




There are two standards that a person can choose to live by. One is to live life through a self serving standard. This choice doesn’t need much explanation because anything that is done through this type of standard is a benefit only to one person and that is to the person who is self serving. The other way to live is through a standard that serves many. This one is a little more complex because it involves many more people and the affect is so much more wide spread.


The self serving standard only has one purpose and that is to satisfy self. It’s pretty clear how this works. Whatever is used in this standard is done to benefit yourself. There isn’t much unity or love in this. Not many people are under the spell of a self serving standard all the time, there’s usually fluctuations between the two, but they cannot occur at the same time so it’s either one or the other. The more the mind is conditioned to self serve, the more time one will spend thinking about themselves. This is a very selfish way to live, but it’s how so many of us have been conditioned to live. To break this spell this has to be understood. If it isn’t, you will remain under the spell of the self serving standard.






Let’s look at the standard that serves many; this encompasses all of humanity. It touches the entire Universe because that’s its source energy. This standard isn’t self created or sustained by doing, it’s a direct result of being aligned with stillness; this stillness is the Universe, it’s why there’s unity and joy when this is our standard. It has to be this way because life is derived from stillness; it sustains itself. It serves many and is a benefit to all. These are your choices and the one that you select becomes your life standard and what you will bring to all humanity. Simply put, serve yourself and you serve one or serve many and all humanity will be served…

Filling a Delusional Lack

The more something is reached for to fill some delusional lack, the less that lack is filled and the more something will be needed to try and fill your delusional lack…

A person will never be free of attachment to self if a discipline isn’t developed to see the reason behind why anything is reached for to begin with. There’s a delusional lack that is the cause and if it isn’t identified there will always be delusional reaching. What I have learned is although some try to address breaking their attachments, most of the time they don’t really break it, something else is put in its place, they substitute. This is a major issue in our society and this is why people don’t truly break the hold from attachment, regardless of what is used. They may not use a certain thing anymore, but they are far from free.

Attachment is attachment and until the reaching itself and not the thing used is addressed the only thing that will change is the thing used. I know this from experience, this isn’t psychological babble, it’s the way it is. It happened to me and I see it happening all around me, people don’t just use things like alcohol or drugs, but nicotine, food, sex, meetings, self created purposes, work, social status, education, caffeine, ad infinitum on whatever it is that has a hold of you, is justified as okay to use, but all that’s been done is substituting one thing for another. Granted a lot of times the other things being used may have a less devastating affect, but it’s substitution just the same. This occurs because the true nature of the reaching isn’t understood. It has nothing to do with what’s used, it has everything to do with why there is reaching to begin with. When the need to reach for anything isn’t there you will understand it’s because you are complete just as you are and your delusional lack is no more…

Utilizing the Present

The present when utilized stops the incessant merry-go-round mind from controlling how your life is going to be lived and unlocks a quietness that’s at the base of all your decisions…

There are different ways the merry-go-round mind can be stopped, it will take some trial and error to find what works best for you. To me being present is the opening of the heart to quietness. The present is one of the main things to use to stop the mind in its tracks. It can be utilized as something to minimize the damage inflicted by the Conditioned Mind. If nothing is used to stop the merry-go-round mind, there will be no way to get off the ride. This is how the Conditioned Mind remains in control because nothing is developed to keep it in check. An unchecked undisciplined mind is the creator of chaos and it’s at the core of humanity’s disfunction.

The way you go about developing the discipline to stop the mind from running amok is through remaining present as much as possible; it doesn’t have to be anything formal. The point is to remain present anyway you can to stop the incessant self serving mind from controlling your life so space can be created between your thoughts. In this space of quiet is the ability to live life happy, joyous, and free. The merry-go-round needs to be stopped if you are to become your true self and live this kind of life.

I use sayings, sometimes the breath or just the silence beneath the noise. Whatever is used it has to be understood that it’s being done to create space between your thoughts. This is of the utmost importance if discipline is to assist in breaking the chains of the Conditioned Mind. You can only get off the merry-go-round when it stops and you can only stop it when you develop the ability to shut it down, and what will allow you the ability to do this is to be present. The merry-go-round will never stop on its own and you will never be able to create the space needed between your thoughts until you understand how to get off the ride and allow love to be in control of your life instead of being on the merry-go-round of life; just existing and going in circles…

Love: The True Criteria

Love is the true criteria of a successful life; love is life’s essence. Our adversities are between our heart and our head, but when the light of love shines through our heart, our adversities are no more…


It seems our greatest lessons come from our darkest times, but it’s only dark because that’s what is seen. There’s always a light shining, but it’s your view that’s of darkness. It’s not that adversity is needed to learn some of life’s most valuable lesson, but because of the way we’re conditioned, it causes adversity; the adversity is ours not life’s. There is no adversity in life, there is only adversity in people and it’s caused because of our developed view of life; when the view isn’t one based in love adversity has to follow.


I would say we’re a backward society because of what is used as the criteria if a person is considered successful. There’s only one true criteria to lead a successful life and that is to love. Do you think Jesus or the Buddha were concerned with their finances or their social status when they were walking the earth? So much time and energy is wasted on a self serving criteria and until this is realized and it becomes different there will always be adversity in your life. Love and live in the light adversity free or remain with a self serving criteria as the base of existence and stay in the darkness. The essence of life itself is love and your heart always wants to live in the light of this love, but your head has been conditioned to live in the darkness of a self serving criteria so there’s always adversity. When you can break the chains of this conditioned darkness, there will be nothing but light in your life and it’s then that you will understand what it means to be truly successful in life, not by a criteria created by society, but by a criteria of the light of love in your heart that’s shining through…

Past Memory Attachment

You cannot move on with your life if you’re attaching to a past memory. What happens in the past needs to remain there if your future is to be different…


This article isn’t about how one should grieve as much as it’s about how our Conditioned Mind likes to attach to the past. I have not lost anyone I love in any of our nations previous conflicts or wars, but I have lost loved ones in my life and I attribute it as just being a part of life, not a pleasant part, but a part just the same. A loss of a loved is a loss any way it occurs and it’s the attachment that causes you to suffer. Not attaching doesn’t make it easier to lose someone, but it does allow for the freedom to move on and not attach to the suffering of the initial reaction to the loss.
You will never have closure and move on if you’re attach to a past memory over and over. What happens in the past needs to remain there if our future is to be different. The Conditioned Mind Patterns remain ingrained by using your memory to keep you in captivity. The love you have for someone always remains in your heart, always. You don’t have to hold a special ceremony to show your love for them. It’s always there every minute of every day, not just on the anniversary of their passing.


This may not be a favorable post to some, but it’s not my intention to offend anyone or to tell others how to grieve, each person has their own conditioned process in place. All I am saying is to look at how the Conditioned Mind uses the past to create stories in your head that keeps your suffering active. After all isn’t that what reliving a past loss does, you don’t really need to have ceremonies to honor loved ones; I’m only saying this because of the suffering it causes. The place that a person who passes on truly lives is in the place of eternity, which is in our heart. Grieve in anyway that you are conditioned to grieve, just understand the love for a loved one never dies, it’s always within you, but it does get blocked from entering the eternal world of your heart by attaching the past memories of the Conditioned Mind…

Mirror of Truth

If you don’t find out why you need to reach for something to alter your current state, you will substitute the things used your entire life and whatever it is that you reach for will remain your master…

Whatever controls you is your master. It doesn’t matter what it is. Your aren’t up against evil forces or negative energy. What you are up against is your own Conditioned Mind Patterns. Even if they change from something you believe in and now you look at it differently, if the change isn’t from a place of quietness you will still be in bondage. When something is reached for it is bondage. If you don’t find out why you need to reach for anything, you will substitute the things that you use your entire life; you will just go from thing to thing. I’m not asking you to believe this, I’m telling you from my experience that this is the way it is. This is real. Lying to yourself is all part of a persons conditioning, even if it causes your own misery your mind will tell you to discount this.

You are your own worse enemy. I know this as a fact, but yet it’s still going to be a struggle at times because of the conditioning. For me the freedom from the bondage of self is becoming more and more of a reality in my life and I know this because there is less and less reaching for things and there is more time spent in the moment of I Am. This takes a lot of discipline, more then most people are willing to develop, but if you really want freedom you will have to be able to look in the mirror and understand you are looking at your only block to freedom. It will be at this point that you can start breaking free from a self that has be leading you around like a puppet on a string. Facing yourself is the most difficult thing you will ever do because you have been conditioned not to face yourself. If you want to be free, I suggest you start developing a plan to break free from yourself and change your Conditioned Mind Patterns. If not, enjoy the puppet show which you happen to have the leading role…

Self Serving Expecting

Live anyway you choose, but if your life isn’t aligned with Universal Love, you can expect to be disappointed more often than not and that’s one expectation that will occur without a doubt…

When something doesn’t happen the way it’s expected, disappointment usually follows. The disappointment is because the expedition originates from within our own self. This is a reflection to become more aware of to see how your emotions are tied into your expectations. The real question is why do we expect things to be a certain way instead of being with what actually occurs? You can never truly be disappointed with what occurs if you understand life isn’t personal, it’s just what happens in each moment. You can make it personal, but the real question is why do you? Sometimes life works out the way you want, it’s probably more luck than anything else. I mean this in the sense of expectations, not in the sense of being aligned with Universal Energy and having things work out for you. When this occurs it’s really because you’re cooperating and are aligned with the Universe so therefore things are really working out for the Universe, not for you individually. This is the essence of love, not one iota of expectations for your own self serving desires.

For me expectations lead to disappointment because its usually based in some self serving desire. When this is understood and your head and feet are in the same moment, aligned with Universal Energy, the love that’s in your heart overcomes the selfishness that’s in your head. This means there’s usually less and less disappointment with things, not because things work out the way that you want, but because the expectations that they need to be a certain way aren’t there. Without expectations the heart stays connected with the love of the Universe. Life is so different in this realm as opposed to the realm of your self serving expectations. Live anyway you choose, but if your life isn’t aligned with Universal Love and you aren’t living accordingly, you can expect to be disappointed more often than not and that’s one expectation you can expect to occur, without exception…

Opinionated Delusions

We are all from the same energy. Even if you were from another planet it would still be the energy of the Universe. When you lose focus of this you become an individual and form your opinions…

If you choose to live a life of opinions that’s your choice. Yesterday’s post was to point out how the burden of a conditioned opinion weighs heavily on you and blocks you from the love that’s in your heart. It was not written to tell anyone how to live their life, that’s not why I write. How someone chooses to live has nothing to do with me. If what I write resonates with you, so be it, if not simply move on. What I write is strictly from my experience as I was opinionated for many many years. Whether it is agreed with has nothing to do with me. What I see is what I write. If you don’t see what I see you won’t understand what I write. There is nothing right or wrong with this, it’s just the way it is.

We are all an extension of Universal Consciousness, that’s factual not an opinion. There’s no difference in any of us, we are from the same energy. It’s when you lose your focus of this that you become an individual and form your opinions. Our unity comes from understanding this. When you form your opinions, ideas, beliefs, concepts, and whatnot, you form an individuality which causes you to miss the mark of Universal Love. This is the truth I spoke of yesterday. It’s not my truth, but the truth of existence; Universal Love. There’s no interpretation needed here, love is simply love. If you wish to form an interpretation or opinion of love that’s up to you, but when the mind settles Universal Love becomes your life’s base; there are no opinions or interpretations needed. Learn to live life as it is, the life of Universal Love. Form any opinion you like, but it will not be a benefit to you because it’s self serving. As a matter of fact it will only be a burden which weighs heavily on you and blocks you from the love that is in your own heart…check it…