Understanding Attachment

Nothing is attached to without a cause and if that cause isn’t understood you will unconsciously succumb to the attachments consequences as if you were a puppet on a string…

When some feeling or emotion arises something causes it. Learn to see the cause of the emotion arising and the feelings that go along with the cause. Whatever arises has a cause, the reason for that cause and the sensation of it needs to be understood if your aren’t to be blindly drawn in and controlled by it. Nothing is attached to without a cause and if that cause isn’t understood, you will unconsciously succumb to it as if you were a puppet. Why people don’t see how this attachment holds them in captivity is because many of the things that are being attached to are used to make your identity and also the attachment is done because your conditioning tells you it’s needed. When the cause of what’s attached to is understood or at least noticed, there arises an awareness of what you are thinking. When this occurs there’s the possibility it will fall away and in the process your attachment falls away.

As stated before, why it’s so difficult to see this is because what’s being attached to is thought to be bringing you pleasure of some kind, and it may be in some way, but it’s not true pleasure because no object has the capability of providing true pleasure; one is easily deluded by this. Regardless of what it is, if it’s causing you to think you need it to feel good (pleasure) the object becomes your prison. So if the cause of why attachment arises isn’t understood, you might as well remain limp because when your conditioning says it’s time to attach, you will have to obey as the conditioning telling you to do so is in control…

Inner Unrest

The inner unrest that keeps you from your peace has nothing to do with life, your unrest is a creation of your own mind and that’s what makes you believe you are not at peace…


There are practical ways to minimize the inner unrest that causes one to sabotage their own existence, but it has to be understood that the mind creating the unrest cannot be quieted by itself. You will have to find out why your own mind is telling you the unrest is needed to live life; a life that is controlled by the conditioning to create this unrest. Your own mind creates all the unrest you have by choosing to attach to thoughts that allow the unrest to arise, this unconscious conditioning is why one gets agitated. The Conditioned Mind develops this as you do things that are destructive to your own well being. Why this unrestful mind set is developed I’m not sure, but I do know it can be described only as insane because your own mind does this.


I now know it was my own mind that created my unrest and it arose from within myself. Because of the shift that occurred some years ago, there is now awareness that unrest doesn’t have to be created anymore. I sit for the sole purpose to develop the discipline that allows the mind to settle. If there isn’t discipline, the conditioning won’t be understood nor will why unrest arises so you will be led around by the unrest. Life does nothing to you, it’s your own mind that does it all. Why one lives in a unrestful place as opposed to a place of peace will never change until the conditioning that makes it so is changed. All I ever wanted was to be at peace, but I wasn’t aware it was my own mind that created the unrest that made me believe I wasn’t…

Changing your View

The only way to change a conditioned view is to have something in place that will allow it to be changed. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness your view needs changing…


Watching television is not my favorite way to past time, but the other night I caught the last period of a hockey game. When the game was over I began looking for something else to watch. Twenty seconds on one channel, ten seconds on another, five on another, than another and another, you get the idea. It’s amazing how we stay fixated on something, in this case the TV, when it comes to the mind. We’re so reluctant to change our view even though we’re going round and round in circles. Actually what’s on the TV (the fixation) is mostly reruns, yet we’ll watch the same channel (thought) over an over. Even though there are many channels (thoughts) we get stuck on the TV and don’t know how to change this.


Think of something you get fixated on and see how hard it is to change your mind when you’re stuck in your view. Unless there’s total awareness of this, changing your view will be just about impossible. The only way to change the conditioned view is to have something in place that will allow it to be changed. This is where quietness comes in because without it there won’t be awareness the view needs changing. It may be a repeated thought disguised with many different labels, but it’s still an old thought. Watch the subtleness of this and in time you’ll see the mind for what it is and how it likes to default to a familiar view. The issue is you can get so comfortable with this that it’s not realized the view needs to be changed; for this realization to occur you have to have another view that’s seen as more beneficial than the one in place…

Stages of Attachment

Everything passes in life and that’s a fact, but attachments trait is to make everything permanent. Only when the mind is settled will one see attachment for what it is and only then will your attachments fall away…

Holding on to your view even in the face of evidence to the contrary is the most binding attachment of them all. Basically attachment occurs in stages, believing what is seen, the mental reactions to what is seen, and holding on to what is seen even though it’s proven not to be as it’s seen. The first two are the ones that occur the most. Most people learn from these to a large degree, but the last one is where attachments become deeply embedded in the subconscious. They grab hold of you and make you do all kinds of nonsense. There are many ways for attachment to manifest, just look at all the things that are reached for. Attachment is the thing that will bring satisfaction, but as soon as it’s held onto it’s gone so the next thing is needed. This is attachment at its most diabolical.

To me this is how attachmentu operates, you think someone is following you, that’s the beginning; it starts with a thought. Now the mind takes over and the mental reaction occurs or as I like to say “let the nonsense begins”. If the person thought to be following you passes you, the attachment will simply fall way, but if you’re in the grip of it, you will think the person passing you is just part of the plan; attachment will always have to run its course before subsiding. No matter what it is in life, it will pass away, that’s a fact, but attachments trait is to make everything permanent so it can remain in place. Only when the mind is at ease will attachment be seen for what it is and only then will your attachments fall away…

Spirirtual Rubbish

Sit to develop discipline and watch your thoughts come and go, eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you will see all the spiritual rubbish holding you in bondage…

With the emergence of the internet there’s so much more information available on spirituality that it really needs to be investigated before you consider what to use to assist in your development. Here is the definition of Rubbish: Worthless material that is to be disposed of. To see if the information you‘re using to develop your direction is beneficial, there can’t be anything associated with it that forms attachment. Methods, programs, religion, God, guru’s, life coaches, teachers, or any other form of rubbish that’s used to keep you attached just keeps you entrapped to the very thing you are trying to break free of. Just as there’s a lot of “fake news” out there today, there’s also a lot of fake information on spirituality. Bondage is not something that’s truly understood by many people so most of the information out there keeps you in bondage in some way. Those telling you to buy their book, pay for retreats run by paid speakers, or follow a program (instant bondage) are clever to a fault, with the fault being you are kept in bondage by following them.

The only thing you need to do is look inward so one millisecond of space is created between your thoughts. Once this occurs and there’s awareness, more and more space will slowly expand; it takes nothing but awareness to create this space. The rubbish out there is that someone’s program, book, method or whatever will keep you in bondage to the very thing you’re trying to break free from. I know people defend their so called guru or people they follow adamantly, but it’s only because there’s no awareness of the bondage they’re in. Sit often and just watch your thoughts come and go, eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you will see all the so called spiritual rubbish holding you in bondage…

Energy of the Moment

Life is constant energy, it never stops. If the energy of the moment is noticed it will allow much more understanding of your life than if you’re blindly controlled by habitual energy patterns…


If the energy of the moment isn’t seen, that’s when the habitual conditioned mind patterns take over; it’s just the process in place. You can be in a state where you’re happy and out of nowhere arises something that triggers one of your habitual conditioned patterns. Depending on the base of what arises determines if you’re still happy after what arises is attached to. This is how it works, you’re pulled around by habitual mind patterns and the energy of the moment is unnoticed so it’s controlling energy attaches to what pattern is associated with the moment. This is where everything arises from, feelings, emotions, sensations, and whatnot, hence the puppet on a string syndrome takes hold if the energy of the moment isn’t noticed. Think about this, you can’t have any feeling or emotional swings without attachment to the energy of the moment. Most people don’t really have a clue of this do very few truly live life. I don’t say this in jest, I’m no different, although I do notice this energy a little more these days.


Here’s something to possibly assist in understanding the energy of the moment a little better. Make a commitment to sit for a certain time, say thirty seconds, keep it real. In those thirty second just watch what arises, watch the energy, a thought arising and just notice its energy. Just sitting, looking, acknowledging, noticing, letting it arise and pass; all of this is just the energy of each particular moment; this should assist in getting a better grasp on the moments energy. Increasing or decreasing the committed sitting time is up to the individual or don’t sit at all and remain a slave to the energy of the moment as it arises and habitually controls your life. It’s the energy of each moment that makes your life what it is and if this goes unnoticed so will most of your life…

Intuitive Heart

Living strictly from the intellect only knows love through a story of the mind. The heart knows love through the sheer presence of its own existence. The intellect will never grasp what the heart knows intuitively…


The difference between the intellect and the heart is simple, the mind (“I”) is from the intellect and the heart is from the presence of love. If you’re truly aware of this you will pick up on the difference intuitively. The heart connects and the intellect separates, this is because the heart only knows unconditional love and the intellect only knows how to put conditions on everything, hence this is why humanity is as it is. It doesn’t mean when you live from the heart you won’t be troubled by things, they just won’t have the same effect that living from the intellect creates. I notice an intellect response immediately when someone responds to one of my post. This isn’t to say my post can’t be debated, but since I write from my heart when someone responds from the intellect it’s immediately picked up on because it creates conflict.


There’s very little if any “I” attachment living from the heart, living from the intellect is strictly from “I” attachment. All conflict with yourself and others come from the intellect, it’s impossible to have conflict when living from a heart of love. You may not enjoy everything that happens in life living from the heart, but you will accept it because that’s how the heart works. The love of the heart is from the energy of the Universe, it connects to everything. We are all the same energy of creation and cannot truly be separated from it, but it can seem like it because that’s what the energy of “I” (intellect) does. When a person states there’s a void in their life it’s because the intellect is causing a story of separation from the heart, but since everyone who is alive has a heart so there’s no true separation, it only seems like there is because the intellect and not the heart is running the show…

The Weight of Thought

A thought is energy that weighs you down to a world where there’s very little freedom because there’s no room for truth. If you’re ever to be free, the energy of thought will have to be let go of…


The more thoughts you have about something, the more you’re limited by its energy; you cannot experience the openness of something if you’ve already decided how it is. To remain open you need to be thought free. This is essential if you’re to be aligned with the Universe and be free from thoughts that weigh you down. The energy that holds you manifest as thought. You need to be cut free if there is to be freedom; this hold is very subtle. Even the thought of whether you like this post or not is only energy and the purpose of this energy is to keep something in the same place. This post can resonate with you without a thought, but thoughts do seem to make the world go round. That doesn’t mean its a good thing, but that’s just what I think lol.


I lived an existence that was trapped in certain thoughts for most of my life and this caused much conflict with people who didn’t see things the same way; wars are started over different thoughts. If you’re really honest with yourself you’ll see that most disagreements are caused by having a different thought about something. I’m not saying you shouldn’t stand up for what is known to be right, but truly knowing about something or having a thought about it is totally different.


There is a place where thoughts aren’t needed, but if this isn’t understood you will never lose the energy of thought and you’ll remain stuck in an existence that’s thought driven. When this is the place you live from, there’s very little freedom experienced. When you can just be with life as it unfolds and not think of it as this or that you’ll be on the verge of truly experiencing life thought free, and without this energy grabbing hold there will be freedom to be with life as it is, without the need of a thought weighing you down…

Fake Solutions/Fake Life

Through the way one becomes conditioned, life is seen as if there is always a fake problem that needs solving, and because of this life is lived mostly through a view of fake solutions…


The issue with having to constantly solve problems to arrange life to be a certain way is it’s all fake. Even if you make up a story life is exactly how you want it, the mind begins creating a new fake problem almost immediately. Life is continuous, it’s broken up into segments (fake solutions) by a mind that’s in a constant state of agitation. If this wasn’t true you would see life as complete and it wouldn’t constantly need to be arranged to your liking. It isn’t because of anything right or wrong that makes you see things in this way, it’s because the mind has been trained to create and solve problems so it’s only doing what it’s been trained to do.


The Conditioned Mind sees fake problems all over the place. The shortest line at Target, traffic, weight, to do list, politics, religion, and so on, all this manipulating is strictly done to put another fake problem in place which is solved with a fake solution; this makes life perfectly fake. Let’s say everyday you make a fake problem to solve, if you‘re fifty years old that would mean roughly 18,250 fake problems were created strictly so you can try and have life the way you think it should be. If you learn to not push anything away or pull anything in nothing would really change except for not having to constantly create fake problems and use fake solutions to live a fake life…

Idol Attachment

There are many idols out there that are attached to that keeps you in bondage, and although it may appear the idol creates the bondage, the bondage is to “I” that attaches to the idol…

There are many traps that induce bondage in the world, the Bible uses the description of idols and there’s no difference what is used because what they have in common is the attachment to “I”. Here’s where this gets tricky because anything that is made into a story and is attached to is an idol because it becomes a prison to the one who is attached to its story. God is made into an idol by people and becomes a prison although most don’t see this. Just look at the different religions and how all the followers of a particular one think theirs is the right one. Many of these religions have beautiful teachings, but it’s in the way they’re attached to that actually takes away from them. This isn’t to say there isn’t value in them, but there’s never value in attaching to something because it enforces an I am right and you are wrong aura.

I found this idol attachment happening to me yesterday, someone didn’t agree with my article so right away I felt I had to defend it ;after all I wrote it so it has to be right, lol. I always have to look at myself so I can identify what form my idol is taking on. I’m not saying to not enjoy things, this is just to show how attachment to anything becomes bondage and blocks the heart from remaining open to allow everything its freedom. Idols take over when they get control of “I” as “I” become the idol. I am right is an idol, as is anything one reaches for. The world presents many idols that are disguised and until these are identified, the idol of “I” will remain and so will your bondage…

Complete in Awareness

Attach to nothing and there will be nothing that you need. Imagine just being in the space of awareness happy, joyous, and free with the understanding your awareness is your completeness…


Without inner silence the awareness needed so you don’t have to create stories will not occur. Even this writing is a story of how not to create stories, but with the awareness of writing it this helps to minimize the attachment to it and thus it’s simply written. This may or may not be the end of the story, that depends on how “I“ is related to an identity. The more “I” needs an identity, the more it’s attached to and the more of a story is created. No attachment, no needed story, no needed story, no discontentment of what isn’t, so all you are left with is what is, not the story, but the actual reality of what is occurring now.


Story after story, the story of how you feel, or your life story. Every life is an endless story, that is until you see the story teller and story are one in the same. Being with what is instead of a created story will be the most difficult thing you will ever do, until you can just be in the silence of what is. Attach to nothing and there will be nothing that you need. Imagine just being in the space of awareness happy, joyous, and free with the understanding your awareness is your completeness. It‘s right here within your grasp, but you will never truly be aware of it until you realize it’s not a story that you are grasping for, it’s learning to simply be with what is…

Aware of Awareness

Awareness allows discipline of the squirrel cage mind and the more this discipline is developed, the more awareness you will have of the delusions that you’ve been controlled by…


Awareness is a engagement where you are basically just noticing and being with what occurs. Awareness is like the guard of our thoughts and this is what determines which ones are let in. Many thoughts come to the you, but when you become aware of them it becomes apparent which ones are beneficial and which ones aren’t. The expansion of awareness can be likened to learning to ride a bicycle. In the beginning there’s much awareness of getting on the bike, keeping balanced, peddling, keeping an eye on the road ahead, and trying not to fall, but after about a week the awareness expands and takes a back seat. It’s still there, but there’s no longer engagement, there doesn’t have to be. What happens next is riding the bike becomes second nature and is done without needing to think about it.


The engagement of awareness is used to develop discipline so what’s actually happening is seen. Awareness of whatever it is the focus is on puts you in the present moment; you can’t be aware of what’s happening right now in the past or future. This is what awareness allows and the more this discipline is developed, the more awareness you have of the delusions that are in control. Although certain truths have been revealed to me in the last twelve years, they are always in the form of becoming aware of a lie there is attachment to. Secrets of the Universe I do not know, the lies that caused me to create my own suffering I do. It’s a process that started out as slight awareness and has expanded to awareness aware of awareness. It’s in this space that riding a bike becomes second nature and is done without needing to think about it…

No Valid Ending

The Conditioned Mind is a story making machine and all the storylines eventually come to a end. However most of these endings are unconsciously created to fit into a storyline of fulfilling some desired want…

The endings to the stories the mind uses need to be investigated so you can tell if they’re valid or not, by valid I mean beneficial to your life. So many people make up endings about certain things without looking if they’re producing results that are beneficial. Many endings are accepted that benefit only yourself and it doesn’t go much further than that. Even if you’re running around saving the world, who says the world needs saving and also the running around helping others is done more for yourself. It’s very difficult to get in touch with valid endings that arise from the space of stillness as opposed to the ones that are made up to satisfy some storyline.

Most of the stories endings are created to fit nicely into an ending for one’s own benefit. Very few people are truly selfless, not because that don’t want to be, but by not understanding the dynamics of the Conditioned Mind there’s no way one can be. Every story has a ending, it’s just part of the story, so there are two ways to see if your endings are valid. The first would be to not create a story, this way a ending isn’t needed, and the second is to understand energy is not created or destroyed, it’s only transformed. Although this form that’s being occupied right now will one day come to the end of not functioning in its current state, its energy will go on. If you want to see if this end is valid, sit and be still and you will see no end is valid and neither is your story…

Present Moment Freedom

The energy of the past or future is so binding because of the way the Conditioned Mind uses them to process life; until there’s awareness of this the present moment will basically be out of reach…

Here’s the reason the present moment is invaluable and why it’s so difficult to be free. However old you may be, if you aren’t living in the present moment, you’re in bondage to your past experiences or you’re possibly using the future; where nothing truly exist. As far as my past is concerned, there’s sixty one years of past energy; it’s no wonder the mind has a difficult time settling. There’s just so much information for the mind to process and it’s added onto every moment of every day. There’s also future energy and although this is different than the past, things are still used from the past to process the future. Case in point is the way the mind uses its reaching mechanisms. Most of why something is reached for is to change the present and also the future; 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 they turn their attention to reaching for food in response to a mind agitation. When the mind settles and more time is spent in the present moment, the reaching is lessened and so is the substitutions, hence there’s less weight gain. The older a person is, the more binding the conditioning. It’s a fact there’s less bondage to past energy for those who start a sitting practice at an early age; it makes sense because they don’t have all that past energy gnawing at them. Don’t make this more complicated than it needs to be. Live in the present moment where life truly exist, or use past and future energy where the only thing that exist is past and future bondage. It’s your choice and it’s also your bondage…

Lost in Ideas

When there’s the idea you need something to provide peace, you are lost in this idea, and until this is understood you will remain lost in the idea (thought) that you are not at peace…

There will never be peace in life if you’re lost in the idea of finding peace. Peace is something that’s already within everyone, but because of the way our minds are conditioning, we get lost in the idea that peace is something to find. Unfortunately your ideas are what make the very thing you are seeking (peace) elusive. Ideas are the reason one is constantly reaching for something from the outside and until these ideas are no more, you will remain lost in your thoughts that peace is in the next thing reached for. Reaching for anything is the proof that your ideas have you. This can’t be stressed enough as these lost ideas have to be seen if one is to ever experience true peace.

The idea of being at peace isn’t peace. What has to happen if you are to ever be at peace is there has to be an understanding of how your ideas block your peace. The reason why one is not at peace is the inability to not have the idea of peace. When the need to reach for something arises, the lost idea begins; this is a conditioned cycle that’s very difficult to break. Peace isn’t something that can be grabbed so it’s in doing less that peace arises. Many get lost in trying to find peace, but since it’s something that’s already within you, the idea associated with finding it needs to be discarded so you can see it’s there. This isn’t easy to see, but I will assist in any way I can. Understand though this isn’t offered to help you find peace, it’s offered so you may possibly uncover the reason why you’re lost in the idea you are not at peace…