Understanding Your Mind

The difficulty of going through life without an understanding of how your mind works is that it limits your options and to limit your options is to limit the freedom in having a choice…

We discover the cause of all suffering when we face our thinking and understand how it creates thoughts and feelings that aren’t real. They feel real because of what our association is to them, but their reality is relative to our thinking and the association to our identity. When this is discovered and we disassociate with this thinking we become more aligned with the Creative Intelligence of the Universe which is love; love gives you so many more options in life.

When you stop believing in the nonsense of the self created world of thought, you learn how to allow love to be your guide. This is when you’ll be able to see your thoughts for what they truly are, disassociate them from who you are and separate the ones that aren’t beneficial and cause suffering; this is when suffering will cease to exist. This is not some belief, it’s factual. A thought cannot cause harm unless it’s given the energy needed to do so and this is what determines if the thought is held onto or not. The more its held onto, the more control it has over you. In the awareness of this is your freedom, it’s in the ignorance of this that there is suffering. And the suffering is when you go through life without an understanding of how your mind works because it limits your options and with limited options you have limited choices…

Illusionary Reality

When there isn’t a “me” association to something, there isn’t attachment. The “me” is what creates the illusion that what occurs in life is real. Things do occur, but only in the illusionary reality of a “me” association…

Two people are waiting for a bus, the bus is late. One  person is really annoyed, the other isn’t. Same situation, but the annoyed person relates the bus being late to a “me” association and the other doesn’t. This is how attachment is formed. The illusion of this is although there is a reality of the bus being late, it’s based in the “me” created by the Conditioned Mind that what goes on in life really matters. I know it seems like so much matters, but it’s only because what goes on is in association to “me”. This world has been in existence for many many years and I would imagine all the people before us thought what was going on with them really mattered also, but it didn’t matter to life.

This is the illusionary reality of life. Sure life is real and all that happens seems real, but it’s only real to the extent that it’s associated with “me” more so than what is actually occurring; this is what makes it illusionary. It only real to the individual who is attaching “me” to it. Sit with this until it’s understood. This is not my truth, this is truth of existence. It’s very simple, if you never had a “me” thought there would never be an illusionary reality because you would always be with what was actually occurring instead of the “me” attachment to what was occurring.

In the case of the bus, it was just late, the “me” attachment is what creates the story. No “me” no attachment, no story, no created suffering. Granted the bus is still late, but the situation isn’t allowed to grab hold of your emotions. This not being controlled by your emotions doesn’t make you the hole in the donut, it allows you to be with the true reality of what is actually occurring instead of the illusionary reality created by your attachment to things caused by the association to “me”…

Worldly Nonsense

Make a stand for what’s in you heart. Bow down to no one. Idolize no one or no thing. Listen to your heart, let it be your guide. Ignore the nonsense of the world because that’s what it is; pure utter nonsense…

No one can rightfully judge you. Most people can’t even rightfully judge themselves. “Put no stock in what others say and what others say will have no stock”. If things are ever going to change in your life, the nonsense that goes on between your ears has to be exposed for what it is; pure utter nonsense. Live now or forever hold your peace because now is the only place you will ever have peace to hold.

We all have feet of clay, not because we want to, but because very few understand the Conditioned Mind and how they are in the the grip of that conditioning. I can never back down from what I know to be true. Whether others see what I see makes no difference. It matters little what happens to me, it matters less what others think. I only say this because it matters little what I think, so if I don’t take what I think seriously I certainly am not going take what others think seriously. The story of what life is about is made up, no one can claim to truly know what it’s about; life is too complex to know. The pea brain mind will make some nonsense up, but our minds have not evolved enough to truly know this answer. We know a lot intellectually, from our head, but we don’t know diddly when it comes to living from the heart. Until this is understood one will be controlled by the Conditioned Mind and will remain in the prison of its conditioned grip…

Love Based

If your energy establishes a base of love, it’ll be the energy emitted to others. This energy emitted is what makes love the base for others and this is the energy that will transform many…

What is established as a base throughout the day determines the direction of your energy, and the direction of your energy determines what your state of being will be. Except for the times when there is something that keeps your base on the given moment, most of your energy will be spent chasing some past moment or hoping for some future one to bring you the things desired. If you’re is to be immersed in love, a needed base of stillness so the noise in your head doesn’t block it out has to be established.

Noise as a base is detrimental to your sense of well being. It takes on many forms, but regardless of what form it manifest as, it is still noise. Noise is the opposite of quietness, as consciousness is the opposite of unconsciousness. You can’t be controlled by the noise and have a love base, well actually the noise will be the base and guess what, when your base is noise, noise is what will be the energy of your life.

A base which produces stillness needs to be established if stillness is to be your base. There are many bases in the world, but there aren’t many that equate to stillness. Find one that does and as it’s cultivated your energy patterns will shift dramatically; the shift will only occur if your base is of stillness.

This shift happens on its own, but one does whether consciously or unconsciously make themselves ready for it. It is in stillness that love arises and in love the noise in the head stops. Without noise there is an opening to the heart of love so if an established base is from the heart, this will be the energy emitted to others and love will become their base because this is how the transforming energy of love rolls…

Form Attachment

Emotions arise when there’s attachment to the thing that triggers them. At the root of this attachment is form and as long as form is in control the roller coaster of emotions will take you for a ride…

Emotions aren’t something that exist by themselves, they’re a movement or reaction to something that occurs. There are many different emotions that arise and they can be put into an associated category to best get a handle on them when they do arise. Emotions arise when there’s a form attachment to something that occurs. Nothing randomly makes an emotion arise, there has to be a form association with something. Emotions only arise form assigns meaning to something. There isn’t much emotion when you hear of a stranger dying, but attach the form word Mother, Father, sister, brother, and so on to it and just watch the emotional onslaught.

Emotions don’t exist until form attaches to something, this is what gives the emotion life and allows it to arise. Example: grief is only a word until form attaches “I have loss” to it. Once this happens look out because depending on how deeply form is attached to the loss determines the level of grief. Same thing with joy, something happens and now form attaches pleasure to it and therein lies the emotion of joy. Here are just some emotions that form controls, fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, trust, happiness, to name a few, watch for yourself when these arise and see where their root is from. With awareness of this you should be able to get a better grip on just how the Conditioned Mind keeps you under its control by weighing you down with a deeply embedded idea of form as an anchor…

Caught in a Dream

If you want to follow your dreams simply look down at your feet. Unless your mind settles and there’s awareness of this, your life will never be truly lived because you’ll be caught in the fantasy of needing a dream…

So many attach to the saying “Follow your dreams” but if this is looked at closely, it may be seen how this holds you in captivity to thinking a dream is needed for happiness. The issue with this is when you are following the urge of a so called dream, the reality of what’s happening right now passes you by. This doesn’t mean you can’t have your dreams and go after them, just realize that a dream is nothing more than a fantasy even if it happens exactly how it’s wanted; thinking the dream will make you happy, not the dream itself is the fantasy. This falls in line with the grass is greener on the other side, that is until it’s realized that grass also has to be mowed.

How many people chose their spouse, their job, the house they live in, having children, or whatever else you thought was needed, only to turn around and complain about it. It’s chosen because you thought it was your dream and yet when it manifested as a reality, it wasn’t long before it wasn’t as fulfilling as you thought it was going to be. You may have been okay with certain aspects of it, but mostly there was something else to complain about. If you truly want to follow your dream look down at your feet and realize good, bad, or indifferent you are your dream. Unless the mind settles and you become aware of this, your life will never be truly lived because you’ll be caught up in needing the fantasy of following a dream…

Kindness: A Game Changer

Start with one random act of kindness and let it sink deeply into your heart. As kindness slowly becomes ingrained in your subconscious, you become a game changing instrument for all the world to see…

Random acts of kindness emits an energy of unconditional love as long as it’s done with no strings attached. If it comes from the Conditioned Mind so you can get a better seat in heaven or move up on the angelic chain of command, this will block your hearts energy to love. A random act of kindness is a start, but the heart will have to keep on expanding and remain open for kindness to become your minds default setting. If the heart remains open all the time, acts of kindness will happen all the time because kindness will be the only thing that’s in place. Start with one random single act of kindness and let it sink deeply into your heart, in this process as kindness slowly becomes the default setting of your mind, you become an instrument.

You can only emit the energy that’s in place and this is the message that others will see; an open heart goes a long way in deciding what that message will be. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but good intention don’t provide you to be an instrument of kindness. For kindness to be the message the world sees, it will have to be something that’s cultivated so it becomes embedded in the subconscious.

One can only act as it is seen and as it is seen is a result of years of subconscious conditioning. To be an instrument of kindness the conditioning that blocks it from being your minds default setting has to be changed. Once it is and it all starts with a random act of kindness, the heart opens and kindness becomes the minds default setting which will be the game changing message the world will see…

 

Unconsciously Led

When you’re unconsciously led around by the Conditioned Mind you behave in ways that aren’t beneficial; not because it’s how you want to be, but because it’s how you have to be…

It was a lack of understanding of my conditioning that led me to remain unconscious to it. What I was unconscious to was my own mind that was conditioned to self serve. The issue with this type of conditioning is it causes your own destruction because the destructiveness is unconsciously disguised as pleasure; this pleasure is pursued by many to their death. It was unconsciously pursued by me in this way and I was at it’s mercy. It said to use drugs, alcohol, gambling, lying, cheating, stealing and so on. This is how the unconsciousness of the Conditioned Mind is develops except for some who are fortunate enough to see this at a young age.

The way I was conditioned wasn’t the fault of anyone in particular. It was indirectly implemented by the inner and outer influences of my life which molded me to behave in the ways my conditioning developed and unconsciously controlled me. You cannot behave in any other way except in the way you have been conditioned. Change the conditioning and change your entire existence or not and remain the same. The value of knowing my own mind is in the understanding there was no where to turn but inward. What I learned is when the Conditioned Mind is understood, you’re no longer unconscious. Its control slowly dissipates as you develop discipline; the mind actually slows down. Once this slowing occurs, the possibilities are endless because there is no longer distractions that keep you unconscious to the conditioning. With this solid understanding of what you’re truly up against, you’re able to develop the discipline so your conditioned unconsciousness falls away…

 

Stop Searching

A person who lives in a house and is stuck inside because of being unaware there’s an outside is like a person who thinks the noise that goes on between their ears is what truly occurs in life…

Being stuck living a certain way and constantly wanting life to be different occurs because the Conditioned Mind is the glue that sticks you to the noise in the head. With awareness although the road to happy destiny is trudged, your conditioning slowly changes; contentment shouldn’t be based on this change. I’ve come to the understanding life is perfect when it’s accepted as it is; there is perfection in its imperfections. Until this is understood, searching for perfection will remain in place. That’s what searching is really all about anyway, trying to have things the way you think they should be which is the noise between your ears making you think when life is a certain way it’s perfect.

Searching ends when it’s understood your conditioning is not you; stop trying to be anything or achieve a certain state. You are what you are; this is your place of peace. The great thing about this is it’s not dependent on anything. Read your books, meditate, go to the gym, go on retreats, do yoga and what not, but none of these things nor will anything else stop the searching until it’s realized what’s here right now is what you have been searching for.

I’m not labeling any of these things as good or bad, what I’m saying is as long as there’s searching labels will be applied. This doesn’t have to be, but it will take a mind that’s settled to be aware of this and just how a mind settles pretty much occurs by simply sitting in the space of now and accepting things as they are. When this is done the searching stops because it’s realized you already have what you’ve been searching for…

A Touching Heart

The greatest gift of life is when we touch another heart because this energy not only touches one heart it touches many, and it’s this transforming energy that makes a difference and changes the world…

What does it matter if you gain the whole world but in the process you lose the love in your heart. What happens if this occurs is you lose your connection to others and without this connection the connection to life is lost; you could be a billionaire, but you would still be lost. A person cannot truly live without a heart connection to others, they can only exist. There’s a touching of every heart when one is connected, this is the energy of unconditional love; loving with no attached expectations. There is no greater gift bestowed upon a person than touching another person’s heart and making a difference in their life; no material attainment compares to this.

Touching a heart doesn’t mean you will automatically be loved back, but if someone is truly touched by you to the core of their heart, their transformation has begun; there will be transforming energy emitted and one will never be as they previously were. Touching another’s heart and making a difference in their life is the greatest gift bestowed upon a person because it opens the hearts energy to a deep and lasting fulfillment. This energy is not a doing of the human will trying to attain something, it’s a love that’s not truly understood, but it’s so freely given that it has to be shared. Love energy transforms hearts so when you give love and someone is touched it makes their life different and their transforming energy of love is returned to you. This is why and how it becomes the greatest gift because there’s not only one heart touched, but many are touched and it’s this transforming energy that makes a difference and changes the world…

Evil Energy

Evil energy is from the thought realm which attaches you to the form, and as long as you’re controlled by form love can’t be the operative energy of life regardless of what you possess…

The more this world and its ways are held onto, the less love there will be as the operative energy in your life. This is why we as a society are in our current state and until this is realized individually and as a whole, things will remain the same. I know this was factual in my own life, but it wasn’t until I learned why I acted in the ways that I did that change began. I never understood the evil behind resentment, greed, hate, jealousy, or the outright deluded view of life that I had. I couldn’t see the love that was in my heart because of all the evil energy that was in place. This blocked me from the magnificence that life had to offer and as long as the evils of form are held onto, this magnificence is never going to be seen.

The block to life’s magnificence is also a block to our own magnificence. Our magnificence doesn’t manifest as a story about certain beliefs, it arises from the silence within. It’s such a shame that this isn’t understood by the masses because life would be so much different, we would be falling over each other in love instead of harming each other in the name of whatever is believed to be right. There’s so much resentment and hate carried around and although it’s directed towards the outside it arises from within so it’s your own evil energy. This evil causes much harm to others, but it causes the most damage from who it comes from; this is missed and not understood by most. This evil is from the thought realm which attaches you to the form, and as long as you’re controlled by form love can’t be the operative energy of your life regardless of what you possess…

Source Energy

Separation from others occurs when the source energy is made into a story because it becomes my story and there’s no connection when one comes from energy to self serve…

The are so many names for source energy, to me what’s important is what’s produced by connecting with it. It’s not a concern of mine what it’s called because words limit it and put it in a so called box. This source energy is what led me from my self destructive behavior and it continues to lead me even when “I” takes hold of some self serving behavior. This is why we’re our own obstacle because it all has to do with the source energy connection to the present moment; very few live there. The more when can be present and observe the stillness of the moment, the more chance there is to connect with source energy. This doesn’t take a belief in something to allow this connection, all it takes is an awakened heart to see that a belief actually blocks the connection to source energy.

I’ve found it more beneficial not to limit myself with labeling things a certain way, it seems to allow the flow of energy instead of restricting it; connected to source energy is more of a benefit to all beings. There are many stories attached to about this and it blocks one from connecting to it. There’s only one source of the energy and the proof is we are all created the same. There’s nothing to debate here because it’s the truth. The debate starts when the source energy is made into a story because it becomes my story and there’s no connection with others when one comes from a place to self serve…

Using Pointers

Using pointers to show a direction so others can find a way to their inner divinity is important, but when the pointer provides a one and only direction, the pointing blocks the divine…

There’s no such thing as only one way to wake up from the sleep of unconsciousness; it’s just about impossible to see exactly what another person experiences simply because no one travels the same exact road in life. I find it quite amusing the way some people project their waking up process as being the way. This is not to say this isn’t the way for that person, but that’s their experience and it’s very unlikely two people let alone many will see things the same in the waking up process. I write to point others to look inward so they can come to their own conclusions to finding what will provide their inner divinity. I seriously doubt anyone went through exactly what I did to get to the place I’m at now so I wouldn’t expect anyone to see things exactly as I do.

A pointing I often see talks about there not being a self very matter of factually as if this is the only way one can experience the divine. Many others use religion as a pointer to the divine. I’ve found there are as many pointers to the divine as there are people and none of them are necessarily wrong. I don’t know and don’t really care what direction one travels, it’s not my place to judge; the bottom line is to show love and respect to everyone even if their way is not what I’ve experienced. The only reason someone shares something is because it’s what’s in place. Its not up to me to judge, but it is up to me to watch my own direction and make sure it isn’t limiting the pointers that others may be looking to…

Spreading Love

Spreading the energy of love has more of an impact than the energy of hate and although you may love, others around you may not, but their energy will at least be neutralized because of you spreading love…

All energy spreads regardless of what its base is; you can’t have a riot with one person. If riot energy is given to a situation, if it’s attached to by someone else it will just spread and the riot will be on. So it is also with love, when one’s energy comes from a place of love it spreads also, but it’s more powerful than the energy of hate and because of loves lasting effects the consequences are much different. This is why it’s so important to be the instrument of love in a world where many are instruments to self serve. Loving energy spreads and if you’re not making up a story of a problem it’s impossible to have one. So when we’re together if I don’t have a story you won’t either and love will be the energy of that moment.

The spreading energy of love is more reaching than the energy of hate, and although you may love others around you may not, but their energy will at least be neutralized because that’s how love works. You will defuse situations just by your energy being based in love, you don’t need to do anything. If someone gossips, don’t participate, when someone cuts you off on the road, just be with it and let it go. If a person tends to be angry don’t feed their anger. By doing this it doesn’t mean others will change, but at least for that moment loves energy will be in control, and the more this is done the more loves energy will be spread…

Tool of Attachment

The tool of attachment that’s developed to cope with life is why life is seemingly full of problems, but whatever arises doesn’t cause the problem, it’s the attachment to them that does.

Nothing can be held onto if there is to be freedom in life. Freedom cannot be found by attaching to anything; attachment is likened to embracing something. Attachment to something will only happen when there’s a thought that it’s needed; if it’s not dealt with it will never go away. When it is dealt with it there won’t be attached energy and it will naturally fall away; this is how each moment has to be approached if freedom is to be had. The way tools are developed to cope with things as they arise is why there’s problems, but whatever it is that arises doesn’t truly cause the problem. Granted it may be something that really hurts and has no benefit whatsoever, like the death of a loved one, but if it’s dealt with in a way that it’s embraced or a made up story is used, the energy of the situation will get stored and remain hidden until it’s time to rise up again. This is why the same thoughts are repeated over and over because of the trace energy in place.

Awareness of what’s happening can allow you to be with what arises and not want it different. The only reason something is attached to is because it’s thought to be needed. This attachment energy is the same energy as pushing away energy, it’s just being used differently. Pushing is attachment if not wanting it and embracing is attachment to the thought something is needed; different action, but the same attachment. This is very subtle to see and it will only be noticed when one is with the moment as it arises and doesn’t want life to be different. So regardless if it’s labeled good or bad, it’s all the same attachment; the only thing the applied label does is determine if something is embraced or if it’s pushed away…