Explanation Limits

You are limited by the incessant need for explanations. Understanding is different than an explanation because it allows for the awareness of exactly what’s there instead of the thought of what’s there…

Most of what happens in life is unexplained, but that doesn’t stop the mind from making up explanations or continuously trying to find one. I have found the unexplained is best left alone because an answer wouldn’t really enhance life. As things occur, explanations of how they’re associated with existence does assist to a degree, but only if they’re not allowed to control your life like a master puppeteer. Most people are limited by the incessant need for explanation, but understanding something is different because it allows for the awareness of exactly what one is up against (their own mind). This awareness allows the mind to settle and lessen the need for explanations which aren’t truly needed. An explanation of addiction doesn’t stop one from becoming an addict, but an understanding of addiction may; as a matter of fact this is exactly what happened to me.

The Universe needs no explaining in its process nor do the origin of our thoughts need to be explained, but understanding how thoughts are attached to and what behaviors manifest from their attachment is the difference between being at peace with life or struggling with it. Some will disagree with this and it’s their right, but I know by understanding my behavior and how it was based to self serve, it gave me something tangible to use to see how much control my Conditioned Mind had over me. Past tense is used on purpose because its control is at a minimum today. An explanation of why this occurs doesn’t enhance the ability to be free of the Conditioned Mind, but an understanding of this certainly does. It’s through the discipline of sitting that the mind can settle enough to become aware that having an explanation of what happens in life will not enhance it in the way understanding our own mind will…

The Separation Story

Thinking there is separation from others isn’t true separation, it’s only a thought, so when the thought does arise if there isn’t attachment to it there’s a connection with all of life…

The way the Conditioned Mind separates someone who is from another part of the world and sees them as different is not true; the only separation from anything because of the story of separation. There is no true separation and when you can understand that the nature of all separation is only from the way you’re conditioned, it ceases to exist. At the core of this understanding is a oneness within and thus a oneness with everything. This includes insects, animals, fish, plants, and humans, in essence the entire Universe, but don’t miss interpret this, it’s not a concept or theory. It’s a fact and this can only be truly sensed when the mind is very still and only when the mind is absent of any thought of separation.

There has to be a oneness within yourself before there can be oneness with anyone else. If this doesn’t occur it’s because you’re consumed by the thought realm and the thought realm is controlled by the Conditioned Mind. Please don’t take this lightly, it’s the reason, greed, hate, and delusion are the default setting of so many minds. If there isn’t quietness, there’s noise and if there’s noise it’s derived from one’s conditioning. Sit with this and notice when separation arises and what’s at its core. Let it pass without labeling it, just watch and don’t attach to it. Remember the thought of separation isn’t true separation, it’s only a thought and when it arises as it will because of your conditioning, if the thought isn’t attached to it will be impossible to be separated from anything…

Reality of Now

If you truly want to see reality look no further than right now. Unless the mind settles and there’s awareness of this, reality will never be realized because you will be stuck in a place that’s not real…

I know many in society attach to following your own reality, but if this is looked at closely you just may see how this holds you in captivity to thinking that a made up reality is needed for happiness instead of what’s here now. When you’re following the urge of something made up, the reality of what’s happening right now just passes you by. This doesn’t mean you can’t have your reality and go after it, just realize a made up reality is nothing more than a fantasy. Even if you get exactly what you want and it becomes your reality, thinking this will make you happy is where the fantasy arises from. This falls in line with “when this happens I’ll be set”…

How many people pick their job, the house they live in, children, spouse, or whatever else you think is needed to make up happy, only to turn around and complain about it. Your choices are made because you think you want them as your reality and yet when they become a reality it’s not long before you realize they’re not as fulfilling as you thought they would be. Or you’re okay with certain aspects of this reality, but there’s just something else to complain about. If you truly want to live in the reality of what is, look down at your feet and realize good, bad, or indifferent this is your only reality. Unless the mind settles and you become aware of this, your life will never truly be lived because you will be caught up in the fantasy of needing to follow a made up reality…

Truly Content

The contentment which most seek is mostly contingent on something from the outside, if this or that happens then I’ll be content, but true contentment comes from within and doesn’t need anything to be…

Thinking about being content isn’t the same as allowing contentment to arise just because that’s what’s there. This seems to be difficult to grasp and it’s because one can’t think their way to true contentment. Stories can be made up that makes it seem as though one is content, but it never last. The contentment most seek is contingent on something, if this or that happens then I’ll be content, but this is another lie of the Conditioned Mind, and there are many. All kinds of examples can be used, if I win the lottery,  job promotions, end of pandemic, holiday off from school or work, children getting A’s in school, new car, you can add your own contentment attachment to the list. The point is, this list is endless and whatever it is that is attained I guarantee you the contentment it brings for that moment will not last. I have been off from work for twenty one days, but tomorrow I go back. True contentment can only arise if life is seen as one continuous event and there isn’t a need to have it different; this is how fleeting contentment is and how contingent it is on something for it to be.

The contentment mentioned in the beginning of the article arises because it’s what’s there, it’s not contingent on anything, therefore it is true contentment; I would put it right along side the peace that passes all understanding. I experience both of these everyday for most of the day and it comes from within. I don’t make it happen, but I am aware of my thinking which is a direct hinderance to true contentment and this is because you can’t think your way to being content, you can only think your way to a surface contentment which is contingent on something from outside yourself; the key to true contentment is not needing right now different. I know this is difficult especially when things don’t go your way, but the alternative is to want things different and keep searching for a contentment that will probably remain elusive until the day life in this form ends…

Unuseful Tools

There’s a pull that occurs in most lives that keeps one from investigating the unuseful tools in place. The issue with this is these unuseful tools are passed onto others so it’s as though the blind lead the blind…

If there are unuseful actions and reactions in the daily decision making process without investigating them, there will be many decisions made without knowing if they’re beneficial. When unuseful tools are passed on to others it equates to the blind leading the blind; very few people truly understand the Conditioned Mind. Without the discipline that provides some stillness, life becomes an unquestioned pull to use unuseful tools. To the Conditioned Mind there’s no need for questions because it has all the answers. Saying “I’m not there yet” is just crazy and it’s an unuseful block that hampers the ability to truly live. If you’re not there yet, wherever there is, nothing you do will get you there. What’s amazing is how people settle for an unuseful place just because someone else says it works. Using the saying “I’m not there yet” is just a way the Conditioned Mind remains in control.

It’s mind boggling how the unuseful remains in place without taking into consideration there might be another way to see things, and what’s mind boggling about this is how unuseful tools are held onto and keeps one in a self created prison that causes suffering. Life doesn’t cause suffering, the Conditioned Mind does and unless one is willing to sit and allow the mind to settle, the pull of the conditioning will remain in place and one will continue to use unuseful tools that cause suffering. Here’s the real issue with this, these unuseful tools are passed onto others and it’s as though the blind lead the blind…

A Moments Arising

Your life hinges on a single attached thought; the next moments arising is from here. Learning to skillfully see this so the attachment is at a minimum determines what the next moment will be…

The thoughts that are attached to make up a belief system because it’s thought the beliefs are beneficial, if this wasn’t so the thoughts wouldn’t be attached to. If these attached beliefs aren’t seen as erroneous they will remain in place. The more you think your created belief system is the right one, the harder it is to see beyond it. Attaching to each moment as it arises through thought is delusional because there’s no solid foundation to a thought and everyone has different ones, that’s why everyone see things differently.

There’s only one truth, I don’t know what it is, but I do know what it isn’t. Until this is seen as each moments arises without attaching to it, life will remain delusional. To get to a point where it’s not delusional you have to get beyond the attached thoughts that hold your belief system (conditioning) in place; regardless of what it is. Each moment arises as one single thought and then a person’s conditioning determines what happens next and how the next moment plays out. Attaching to it or not is the difference in how the next moment arises and if there’s going to be unity or separation. The truth is you are never separated from life, but it feels that way when there’s attachment to a thought that makes you think you are. Your entire life hinges on a single attached thought; the next moments arises from here. Learning to skillfully see this so the attachment is at a minimum determines what the next moment will be…

Just Say No

The word “no” can be used to cut off attaching energy to a thought. In the “no” is the infinite possibility of peace, but it will only occur when a thought is seen for its irrelevance…

Thoughts arise, but reflecting on them instead of attaching a label is the difference in learning from them or allowing them to control you. Why was I born, what is my purpose, what is God, these are simply thoughts, attaching your story to them changes their dynamics from reflective energy to becoming attached to them and applying energy needed to search or reach for an answer. When something is unknown, the mind will make up answers, these made up answers are the base of how most lives are lived. We are bombarded by a barrage of daily thoughts, many arise go away and come back throughout the day. Not every thought is attached to, it’s the ones that are that cause issue; most just come in and leave, but they do seem to return.

Reflection is valuable in developing the awareness to just see a thought arise and not give it any power. That is arises means nothing, what is done with it after it arises means everything. If a thought arises about something that happened in the past, it doesn’t have to be attached to. It can be simply reflected upon and seen as a thought, nothing more. The Conditioned Mind is designed to make a story out of it, but with disciplined awareness this can be seen and the simple word “no” can be used to cut off attaching energy. The simple word “no” holds the infinite possibility of peace, but it will only occur when a thought is seen for its irrelevance, that is unless there’s attachment, then all bets are off…

Understanding Your Conditioning

When you understand just how diabolical the conditioned mind is, it will probably be your first experience of truth. Only then you will have the possibility of awakening and seeing the true nature of the mind…

The Conditioned Mind is so subtle very few people know it’s even in place. Because of this the world is not on a course to become based in truth, but whose to say that’s not how it’s suppose to be. Even though truth is what the great mystic’s spoke of and this is the message that most people who have gone deeper try to convey, no one knows for sure.

No one knows if the world will change before humans destroy it; it‘s only through the Conditioned Mind that this is happening anyway. Maybe it’s suppose to be this way, maybe not, but a person can only change themselves and that will occur if they’re fortunate enough to realize how conditioned they really are. Look at the smugness of your own conditioning before you point the finger at someone else. After all when you point one finger at another there are three pointing back at you; take the log out of your eye before you point out the speck in someone else. The way we are conditioned as a species is our dilemma, this is a stark fact and until this changes nothing will change, but fret not because if you come to realize this you will understand the Conditioned Mind. When you see this truth you will understand how conditioned you really are. Only then you will have the possibility of awakening and seeing the light, not a conditioned mind light, but a light provided by the Universe…

Mental Associations

A mental association reaching for God is no different than a mental association reaching for Heroin. Although these will produce different outer results, the same inner bondage for both holds true…

Mental associations to what’s occurring determines the energy you will live by and this is because the mental associations are tied into your emotions which is what gives them life. It’s never truly about what’s occurring, it’s always the mental association to it that determines how you will respond. Using the example of food shows how prevalent this is. Food is needed to live, but how about dessert, see how the mental association to dessert makes the emotion of pleasure arise. Nothing inherently has an association to it, if we didn’t have tastebuds our eating habits would be different and this would be because the mental association to pleasure wouldn’t arise and manifest in the need to be satisfied by food or dessert. Without tastebuds we would eat when we were hungry, not to say that we don’t now, but I know in my case food and especially dessert is used for quench the thirst of pleasure. I don’t eat food that I don’t like and dessert is definitely eaten strictly to provide pleasure. The mental association to things determines how strong the grip is.

Look at some of the most glaring labeled addictions in our society and see why it’s nearly impossible to break free from their hold. The mental association to anything being used as a coping mechanism runs deep, but what’s not understood is the less glaring one’s have the same mental pull as the one’s that wreck havoc and even kill. One uses programs to break free from the mental association to something, only to substitute it for another mental association (a program) and although the outer results may be different, the same bondage to a mental association hold you captive. A mental association to God is no different than a mental association to Heroin; different outer results, but the same inner bondage. Until this is understood, the mental association to whatever the Conditioned Mind uses will keep you in bondage to whatever is being reached for…

Possessed by Thought

What is will always be, but it’s our own mind through the thought process in place that determines how one reacts. Our mind creates our entire world through the possessiveness of our thoughts…

Things considered unpleasant we would rather not happen, but they do and they have to be accepted or there will never be peace in your life. At least to where you can be with what is instead of attaching to the thought of wanting it different. Although the small stuff is seen as difficult, the life altering things can be seen as devastating if there isn’t an awareness of how it’s your own Conditioned Mind that makes this so. Loss of loved ones, homes destroyed along with all our possessions and memories, accidents, illnesses, pandemics, these are just some of the occurrences that can alter your state if they’re not accepted for what they are; and what they are is nothing but a thought.

Life happens and through thought it appears as your mind makes it appear. Life is neutral except what the Conditioned Mind makes it out to be. Your own mind uses thought to create an entire existence that is only real to you. The more life is lived in this manner, the more difficult it is to accept what is. This lack of acceptance is only because of a lack of understanding of your own mind. It’s your own mind that creates the appearance that life has difficulties. This happens because you become possessed by the thought that everything is as it appears, but it’s only so because your mind has been conditioned to do so…

An Undistracted View

The view of satisfying yourself keeps you from clearly seeing your own innate beauty. This clear view will only occur when your view comes from looking inward…

Although no one is more special than another, there are some who do see things clearer than those with a selfish view. What makes this happen?  Although I wouldn’t label some as chosen, I will say some are more inclined to not attach to selfish desires which allows a clearer view than if you have a view that’s mind based. I have lived two existences, one which was in the direction where there was much selfish suffering and the one I’m living now which is a clear view of non attachment. The only real differences in the two views is one creates suffering and is done in ignorance and the other is lived in the awareness of ignorance. Today my view is as it is because the selfish distractions don’t control me as they once did. They’re still there I’m not as controlled by it.

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

Creating Habits

A mind that becomes habitual doesn’t just happen, it takes much repetitive behavior to create this. It gets deeply ingrained in one’s subconscious and will take much willingness and perseverance to undo…

To not get caught up in the habits that are formed, each day has to be viewed as new. You cannot undo one single act from yesterday, good, bad, or indifferent. Mistakes if that’s what you want to label them, are only the results of your Conditioned Mind Patterns that have been put in place to cope with things as they occur. If you’re not conditioned to love don’t expect your reactions to be of love. This is considered bad in the sense that it causes suffering because of the energy emitted from a reaction that isn’t based on love.

This energy is the habitual energy of a mundane mind, but the mind is anything but mundane. This habitual energy doesn’t allow you to take advantage of opportunities to be the instrument of love. When this habitual energy is in control, it will take discipline to get out of it. Think about what a habit is and how it’s formed. It takes time to create it and it takes time to get out of it or at least not constantly return to the repetitive energy that creates it; the same thing has to be done over and over to create a habit. This is how the conditioning become ingrained in the subconscious; habits take some time to form and there’s much reinforcement that keeps them not only in place, but anchors them so they become more deeply ingrained in the subconscious. That’s why its easier to discount something with less history because its not as deeply embedded.

Take your parents as an example, with so much history its very difficult to view them objectively. They’re viewed with a created perception as an identity is attached to them thinking that’s who they are, but the thought of your parents are not who they are, it’s only your created perception of them. Perceptions create habits which take away objectivity; things really aren’t as you think. Life may be lived by your thoughts, but this is the created delusion Buddha described. When we can stop the habitual mind of putting everything in its little perception box, you will begin to fill life with love and eventually habits will not exist; and each and everyday will be a new beginning because there won’t be any new habits created…

Storied Peace

The nature of the Conditioned Mind is to create stories that are used to make you believe they’re needed if there is to be peace; this story to be at peace is the exact reason there isn’t peace…

You are the creator of the story you aren’t at peace. You can create any story you like, just understand if you don’t create a story all that will happen is you will be at peace. We’ll use the example of someone bringing in donuts to work; from there the story you create about donuts is nothing more than that, a story. Maybe you create a story that you love donuts and there just so happens to be a jelly one and you particularly love jelly donuts. After all is said and done if you don’t create the story about the jelly donut, it will still exist it just won’t have any control over you because there won’t be any attachment to it.

Eat a donut, don’t eat a donut, the point of this example is to show how the created story becomes the created attachment which is what makes you want the donut. Substitute anything you want for the donut including non attachment itself, it’s all the same. A created story creates attachment which in turn creates suffering. In the morning, when you first wake up, that’s when the story begins and thus attachment.

Stories are the nature of the Conditioned Mind. This isn’t something I made up, it’s something to just be aware of so stories can stop being creating. These stories which are created by your own mind makes the world delusional and it keeps you trapped in this delusion. If you think this doesn’t pertain to you that’s just another story that keeps you from peace. Beyond the story there is always peace, it’s just not realized because of the need to create a story…

The Attachment Lie

Attachment to anything is a prison, but the thing attached to is only the sentence, the prison is the lie the Conditioned Mind creates that tells you what you attach to is needed to make life better…

The reality of life is impermanence and because of this when there is attachment to anything, there has to be suffering. So suffering is directly related to what one attached to and how tight the hold is. Impermanence is a natural phenomenon of life and since the nature of it can’t really be changed, the only way for the suffering not to occur is to learn how not to attach to things. You can still enjoy all that life has to offer, but if true liberation is to be experienced, attachment will have to fall away. I say fall away because many attach to not attaching and thus stay attached to the their suffering. Letting go isn’t really a doing, it’s why many remain trapped to the bondage of self. If true liberation is to be experienced, there will have to be awareness of the conditioned mind attachments that are in control. Few have this willingness because the conditioning in place to doesn’t allow it, hence the need to reach for something constantly rears its ugly head; this causes suffering.

There’s attachment because the conditioning in place is based in a lie; this lie is what one stops attaching to and that’s when truth is revealed. It’s not a truth that can be explained, the moment it is there’s attachment because it becomes an idea, concept, or belief. This is why in stillness truth is revealed. All I know today and it’s not much has been revealed to me. To truly stop attaching to the lie it has to be seen that all attachment is a lie. If this isn’t seen, the attachment continues along with its associated suffering. This moment needs no idea, concept, or belief to be, if you can see this attachment is naturally lessened because the Now exist free of its lie and without the attachment lie there is simply nothing needed to make life better…

Creating a Nemesis

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

The choice to hold onto something and make it a nemesis is the cause of suffering, but there really isn’t a choice because of the way the Conditioned Mind controls. Suffering is inevitable because of the way the Conditioned Mind makes everything a nemesis. If this is to change you will have to make room in your heart so your nemesis is replaced by first stillness and then love. There’s no way around this, make whatever you want a nemesis, but understand when it passes something else will have to replace it. Today it’s the lockdown and Covid 19, tomorrow it’s a co worker, the president, traffic, or something else; this will never change until there is room in your heart for love. If you hold onto a person and loathe them, you are blocking the space for a loving heart, this is strong language, but it’s true.

Love of the heart can only be without any conditioning. The Conditioned Mind doesn’t allow most to see this, it prefers to create a nemesis. 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 a nemesis and feed into its nonsense. To hold onto things is to suffer regardless of who or what you are holding on to because it becomes your nemesis. Until this is understood you become your own nemesis; the very thing you show disdain towards. This is truth; you cannot be separate from the energy that comes from you. Stop creating a nemesis by holding on and make room in your heart for love because if you don’t you are the one who will suffer the most by creating nemesis after nemesis of what you are holding onto…