Awakening Propaganda

Sit often 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 awakening propaganda holding you in bondage…

With the emergence of the internet there's so much information available on awakening that it really needs to be investigated before you consider using it to assist in your development. Here is the definition of Propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular cause or point of view. To see if the information you are using is authentic and truly beneficial, there can't be anything associated with it that forms attachment. Methods, programs, guru's, life coaches, teachers, or anything for that matter is a form of propaganda that’s used to keep you attached; it keeps you entrapped to the very thing you’re 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 awakening. Being awake is not something that's truly understood by many people because most of the information out there is propaganda to keep you in bondage in some way. Those telling you to buy their book, pay for retreats run by paid speakers, or follow (instant bondage) a program are clever to a fault, with the fault being spreading propaganda.

The only thing that’s needed is to the look within so one millisecond of space is created between your thoughts. Once this occurs and there's awareness of it, more and more space will slowly expand; it takes nothing but awareness to expand this space. The propaganda out there that someone's program, book, method or whatever has your answer 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 the 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 awakening propaganda holding you in bondage…

Restricted Choices

Going through life without an understanding of how your mind works makes your existence much more difficult because it restricts your options, and restricting your options restricts your choices…

We discover the cause of all suffering when we are truly able to see our mind for what it is and understand how it creates feelings and emotions that aren't real. They feel real because of what our association is to them, but their reality is only relative to our thinking and the association to our identity. When this is discovered and we disassociate with this kind of thinking, we become more aligned with the Creative Intelligence of the Universe which to me is love; love is what gives us so many more choices in life.

When we stop believing in the nonsense of the self created world of thought, we learn how to allow love to be our guide. This is when we will be able to see our thoughts for what they truly are, disassociate them from who we are and separate the ones that cause suffering and aren't beneficial to anyone; this is when our suffering ceases to exist. This is not some belief, it’s something factual and I know this because it’s my direct experience. A thought cannot cause anything 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 it’s held onto, the more control it has over you. In the awareness of this is one's freedom. It’s one's own ignorance of this that creates one’s own suffering, and the suffering is caused by going through life without an understanding of how the mind works because it restricts your options and with restricted options your choices are limited…

Missing Life

So many people are lost chasing life that the true essence of each moment is missed. And if you’re missing the moment because you're chasing it, you will miss your life…

To experience peace, what you’re chasing has to be realized so the chasing can stop. So much life is spent chasing the next fix that most of it is missed. It's always about what's here right now in this moment, but because of the conditioning in place that's the last place where one spends their time. Life itself has nothing to do with the past or future, it's the conditioning in place that needs them to fill in the space created by not being able to live in the present. The real chase of life is learning to be okay in the present, but why the chase remains in place is because one is conditioned to use tools that keeps you from living in the present. It shouldn't be difficult to be present because it's the only true place of existence, but the diabolical conditioned mind wants you to be in every other place except the present.

I was trapped chasing for forty nine years. Although on the surface it seemed I had everything I wanted, the conditioning that made me need to chase was always in place; the chase never stopped. This is why I often say programs, another book, a different job, spouse, car, home, social status, yada, yada, yada, don't stop the chase, because of the conditioning in place as soon as something is grabbed, something else is used to chase after. Positive or negative don't matter in any of this, all that matters is the chase. If you are chasing to be the little engine who could, it's no different than being the little engine who couldn't. So many people are lost chasing life that the true essence of each moment is missed and if you miss the moment because you're chasing it, you will miss your life…

The Need to Reach

When there’s a need to reach for something for satisfaction, it has to be addressed or you‘ll remain in the grip of the reaching and you will always have to satisfy some inner need…

What’s missed by most people is the understanding that all reaching is the same regardless of what’s being reached for. The reaching itself is all the same and make no mistake when you reach you’re in prison. There are so many prisons, from ayahuasca, to Heroin, a Hersey chocolate kiss, love, God, or whatever, the reaching is what needs to be focused on. Nobody just reaches for something, there’s a need to be filled so let’s go and reach for something. This is where the misunderstanding occurs because one thinks reaching for ayahuasca is different than reaching for Heroin. The true nature of the reaching isn’t identified so you remain the same even though the things being used are different. It's easier to justify when you’re reaching to help others than reaching for Heroin, but it’s still reaching to fill a need. I share my experience on why there’s a need to reach. It was revealed to me that reaching is the cause of all my problems because self-centeredness is the reachings supportive energy.

You may think it’s crazy how reaching for God is the same as reaching for a drink of alcohol or that reaching for ayahuasca is the same as reaching for Heroin, but it is because it all arises from the inability to truly be present. If there’s need it will be reinforced by the reaching; if this isn’t understood you’ll remain in your prison. Understanding this is difficult and it’s why I don’t push to develop a program or I won’t become a life coach; to me it’s all nonsense. I will point anyone to look within to find their own inner beauty; the only thing needed is to learn to live with what’s here now. This is what should be pointed to, but because the need to reach isn’t understood there’s reaching for the next fix so you remain its prisoner…

Unconscious Mind Activity

Beneath the unconscious mind activity there’s nothing but space. This is difficult to see because life isn’t about what you think it is. In fact it isn’t about anything you think it is, but it’s not seen because of trying to figure it out through unconscious mind activity…

Round and round the mind goes and where it stops nobody knows. This is a perfect example of unconscious mind activity that’s in place for most people. One thought after another, no space, no quietness, just the noise of thought manifesting itself. If you could just sit back in a space where the noise subsides, there’s a chance to truly see what many mystic’s spoke of. If you think you have an idea of what life is about, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that’s just noise. There are no answers to what life is about and the more solid the existence, the more you will think you have life figured out. I’m not saying I know what life is about, but I do know what it isn’t about and it has nothing to do with what is seen through the eyes. The more you’re controlled by the senses the less life is truly experienced. Below the unconscious mind activity of the senses is the only place where life is truly experienced. You can travel all around the world and make up the story of all the beauty around you, but it’s only a story conjured up to provide sense pleasure and store it as a memory to be used later. Beneath the surface no story is needed, no pleasure is needed, in fact nothing is needed because this is where true life exist.

Think about it, your entire life is a story until one day your story ends. Every experience is taken with you as if they never occurred. They were thought to be needed so you could make sense of your life, but really they mean absolutely nothing because they’re all created from the unconscious mind activity of the senses. Buddha talked about of delusion, Jesus spoke of not being of this world, to me this is what they were talking about? If you remain trapped in unconscious mind activity, you will remain in your suffering. Even those who think they understand this don’t because it’s not something to understand. Beneath the unconscious mind activity there’s nothing but space, this is where the possibility arises of truly seeing what life is about. Why there’s difficulty in seeing this is because life isn’t about anything that you think it is. In fact it’s about everything you think it isn’t and this is because of the trying to figure it out on through unconscious mind activity…

Beyond Mind

If you’re stuck in a mind based existence, you're being held captive by a mind based world. This is a prison you will only be released from by going beyond your mind into the space of Now…

You cannot have a problem in your life that isn't created by your own mind. This doesn't mean things that occur are always beneficial, but regardless of what happens it's your mind that makes something a problem, and it comes from within yourself. Lots of things happen throughout the day and each time there's a choice to make it a problem or not. Everyone has this choice, it just takes a certain amount of discipline for this to be seen. What discipline does is it slows down the thought process that runs continuously. This slowing down is the beginning of truth arising; without the slowing the necessary quietness that allows this will not happen.

If the mind is the base of your existence noise will be the base of your decisions. This will not allow you to watch the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind and if this nonsense isn't seen, the mind will never slow down and there won't be any Now space created. When life is mind based (unconsciousness) it’s as though life is a struggle. When the mind slows down you can see how it's the Conditioned Mind that takes everything that happens and makes it either problematic or pleasurable. This revelation will assist in breaking free of the hold your mind has over you and you’ll be able to see that you're not the mind, you're beyond the mind (consciousness). This doesn't mean unpleasant things won't happen, on the contrary life will still happen, you just won't allow yourself to make it a problem. When this occurs and you have no created problems with life the next step in the process of going beyond a mind existence into the space of Now will be realized…

Creating a Need

The Conditioned Mind creates the lie of a need, the heart sees fulfillment beyond the need. Until this is realized you will have to constantly reach for something to try and fill a need that doesn’t exist…

For many years I would say I had this need in me that was created from a lack of love and that’s why I constantly reached outside myself to fill it; I have since come to understand this differently. This need isn’t a need at all, it’s a lie that blocks fulfillment which is the essence of life. It’s where life happens when one is busy making other plans. By not understanding this fulfillment I spent most of my life chasing it with whatever I could get my hands on. This is an endless list as to what was used, each individual has to investigate for themselves what’s on their list. It’s ironic though because now most of my life is spent in the fulfillment that for so long I considered a need; this is the truth that has been revealed to me.

To fill this misunderstood lie is the reason why anyone reaches for anything or wants life to be different. If this space was understood for what it truly is, humanity would be much different because fulfillment would be the way of the world. The need is a lie the Conditioned Mind creates. By constantly needing the present moment different it keeps you reaching as the need is seemingly always in place. This will have to be understood if the reaching is ever going to stop. When it is understood the need transforms to fulfillment because the present moment doesn’t have to be different. And when the present moment doesn’t have to be different, life reveals its true essence as fulfillment which doesn’t have to be reached for because it’s not needed…

Desire Energy

When you’re not looking to derive pleasure from an arisen desire the desire loses its tantalizing lure, so without being controlled by desire you’re able to be with what’s actually in front of you…

There’s nothing inherently wrong with desire in the sense that it’s good or bad, but because of desires nature, the mind gets pulled into whatever arises and you lose touch with what’s in front of you. Desiring can be draining because of the energy it needs. It’s one of the reasons why after certain desires run their course, there’s some guilt and remorse that follows. Giving into desires takes a lot of energy, it’s an energy that can’t sustain itself, it needs constant reinforcement because the self that desires is never fulfilled. Love on the other hand is just the opposite, it needs nothing to sustain itself. It’s neither draining nor does it need reinforcement because it arises from stillness, as everything does. Think about it, everything arises from the energy of stillness and eventually that’s where it returns.

Fulfilling a desire is very satisfying or it wouldn’t be so enticing, but because of the nature of it being fulfilled doesn’t last and more energy needs to be spent when more desiring arises. These desires usually occur one right after the other, some are glaring and some are subtle so it’s difficult to really notice all of them. The glaring ones seem to have more of an affect on life than the subtle ones, but make no mistake, desire energy is all the same and it’s only there so “I” can be satisfied. I have found not attaching to results really helps in not being overcome by desire, as is the case with my writings. I write and that’s the end of it, it’s what’s in front of me so it’s what I do. When I’m not looking to derive pleasure from an arisen desire it loses its control and without being controlled by it, I’m able to actually simply be with what’s in front of me…

An Impermanent View

Most people will say life is good if everything is going their way. It can always be good regardless of what happens, but only if it's seen how all things are impermanent including life itself...

Life being considered good or not is from your thinking. It won’t be even if you say it is if that’s what you truly believe; I equate this to whistling in the dark to keep away the bogeyman. As long as you're whistling the distraction will keep the fear in check, but the moment you stop it will return. The key is to identify why you think life isn’t good and be with it as it is. People say be positive, but being positive to me doesn't change the facts of why life is labeled as not good. Some not so pleasant things do happen in life and if it's just masked over and ignored it becomes ingrained as an energy pattern in the subconscious that never goes away. This is how life becomes not good. Life itself is always good, it's people who are conditioned to make it something else; this is another lie of the Conditioned Mind.

Life will be good when it’s seen in the light of how all things are impermanent including life itself. Believe me I get it, being ill, losing a loved one, living in poverty, being abused, and many others things that occur in life are not good, but what makes it so is the attachment to them. Labeling it not good doesn't change what's occurring, it only changes where life is put as being good or not. When the true essence of life (impermanence) is understood, it puts life at the top of being good scale regardless of what's going on because it’s seen that one day life in this form will neither be good or not good, it simply will not be...

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Now Prayer

To attach to “I” is to struggle with life. To be in the Now Prayer of I Am is to be free of the struggle. Because of our conditioning the struggle will only cease when we learn the Now Prayer is the moment of I Am…

To me prayer is not something to use to get out of jams or use when you want situations to be a certain way. What I have come to understand as prayer is something that can be used to stop the incessant mind from trying to arrange every situation to be the way it thinks it should be and to put one in the reality of what’s happening Now.

In order to do this and allow prayer to be a vital tool in life, Now needs to become the foundation for the way you live. In other words life is to be a living prayer. A constant state of prayer is a constant state of knowing who you truly are, and to know the lie of “I” only has the power that it’s given. This is vital to understand because of the energy of I Am and how it allows you to align with life.

To practice of being in a constant state of prayer isn’t related to anything that happens in life. It’s to be in a constant state of having an open heart no matter what happens. Only in the state of Now can you be with what’s actually happening instead of constantly being controlled by a mind that wants everything to be to its liking. When this occurs one’s I Am is in alignment with Now; as the heart remains open there is simply I Am. In this state life is lived the way it was intended, in the Now as a light and prayer to all beings…

Hearing Life

If you don’t do things that put you in cooperation with life it will be impossible for you to hear what life has to say. If this is to change it's imperative to learn about your own mind which will go a long way in hearing what life is saying...

Just observe how the mind justifies all that it does. It has never been disciplined to be still so it creates most of its problems just so it has something to do. It says to do something and turns around and questions why it was done. It should be treated as a separate entity as if it's an enemy because upon further review it will be seen that it is, but it's not the mind that's the enemy, it's the way it has been conditioned, that's the enemy.

This conditioning blocks the true nature of the mind from arising. It's only conditioned to be this way because of all the surrounding influences, but it is we ourselves (unconsciously) who attach to these conditioned mind patterns. Learning about your own mind is a way to undo what has been done. This learning about your own mind is not about the great secrets of the Universe becoming known, it's more so about getting an understanding of why the things that are done don't allow cooperation to hear what life has to say. When this is understood, why you respond to things a certain things will be known. After all if you don’t do the things in your life that allow cooperation with it, you will never hear what life has to say...

Unconsciously Controlled

Without the recognition of unconsciousness you’ll blindly be controlled by it. It says jump and the only thing you can do is obey and jump; if you’re really unconscious you’ll also ask how high…

If you want to understand the unconscious mind you will need to sit down and observe it. Whatever you think and ponder upon that’s what becomes the inclination of the mind and hence that’s what becomes your unconscious actions. If there is no sitting, there’s very little chance for the mind to settle so it can be observed. As unconsciousness is formed it becomes second nature, there’s very little observation in this mind activated action. These unconscious actions are different for everyone, but they are common at their root. They all arise in some way from the unconscious to seek pleasure. It matters little what’s used to fulfill this pleasure seeking and because there’s very little awareness of this it’s in control of you. There needs to be an understanding that our actions are unconscious and are conditioned by what is attached to. This is what determines whether our actions are wholesome (loving) or unwholesome (selfish). Simply put loving actions should be cultivated so they become consciously ingrained.

If there isn’t any sitting to allow the mind to settle, an understanding of the mind will be difficult and so observing the unconscious conditioned patterns will not be recognized. Without recognition of these they are blindly in control. They say jump and the only thing you can do is jump, and depending how attached you are you may even ask how high; this is why we do things that aren’t in our best interest without hesitation. Without the awareness to observe the thoughts that arise, one is like a puppet on a string. Sitting allows the mind to settle so there can be an observation of this and one by one the puppet strings can be cut. If nothing is in place to allow this settling, without hesitation the Conditioned Mind puppeteer will continue its control and you’ll unconsciously do things that aren’t beneficial to yourself or others…

Wanting Addiction

Until it’s understood there’s never a true need to change how you feel, addiction will remain at the level of epidemic proportion because wanting the present moment different will be all you think about…

There are many things used that are labeled what addiction is, but what’s not understood about this is none of them have anything to do with addiction. Not many people see this and until they do addiction will remain at the level of epidemic proportion. I say this because what’s not addressed by the so called addiction experts is why a person wants to change how they feel. That’s what’s at the root of addiction; the desire to reach for something to fulfill a feeling of want; that’s the true addiction, not the thing being reached for. If the feeling of wanting to change your current mind state was understood you could choose not to do it, but since it’s not understood the reaching must commence once the feeling of wanting to change your current mind state arises. The true addiction is in the thought of wanting the present moment different. If wanting the present moment different was not the case, reaching for something would never occur. I know they are two parts to this, mental and physical, the physical is only a secondary reaction to the mental. Before anything is reached for and actually used physically the mental has to take a firm position that the thing is wanted.

Nobody abuses drugs, takes a drink of alcohol, gambles, or gives into any wanting without there being a need to fill it. Without having the thought of want one would be free of any addiction. You see it’s our thoughts that cause the actual problem; the fixated attention on a substance is secondary. If the addiction epidemic is ever going to stop, there will have to be a change of focus on to why there’s an epidemic in the first place. It’s because there’s a thinking epidemic in the world and it’s why the world is in such disarray. So much that’s done in our society reinforces this conditioned thinking that it keeps one reaching outside themselves to change how they feel. Until there’s an understanding that there’s never a true need to change how you feel, addiction will remain at the level of epidemic proportion because the need to want the present moment different will be all you think about…

Law of Love

The Law of Love is natural and puts you in harmony with life. Take heed, it’s not life that does anything to you, it’s you who breaks the law and since it’s unnatural it will certainly seem like life is doing something to you...

The Law of Love are in place to put you in harmony with life and they're also in place to offer protection against certain behavior. When the Law of Love is adhered to it allows life to be lived to the fullest, but the mind has to be opened and free flowing for the adherence to this law to take place. There are also man made laws that align to the Law of Love, but many of them are broken which blocks the law from being as beneficial as it could be. The more one adheres to selfish behaviors, the less chance there is to be in harmony with the Law of Love. When things are used and abused to satisfy self, this blocks life from being natural. The animal realm adheres to natural laws and because of this there's perfect balance. Unfortunately the human conditioning relies on the intellect and not enough on what naturally occurs.

Life will mostly be lived in one of two ways, acting in ways that allows alignment to the Law of Love or not. A quiet mind can see this and slowly stops doing the things that block the Law of Love from being adhered to. As long as one is alive life will be lived, but in what way determines its actions and consequences. Go forty mph in a twenty five mph zone and regardless if you get a speeding ticket or not, you will be out of sorts with the law in place. Take heed, it’s not life that does anything to you, it’s you who breaks the law and since it’s unnatural it will certainly seem like life is doing something to you...

Realm of Silence

The realm of silence is where our true nature manifest. It's where one connects to all of life and basks in the warmth and sunlight of love; it’s our true home…

An awakening is a process of developing awareness of what blocks the heart from love. The heart will only open and expand in silence by developing daily mindfulness and a sitting practice. No longer does the world revolve around my "I" it more so revolves around the "I" of others. Each day is started with the vision of how I can be a benefit to others; I write and post a daily article to assist in making this a reality. This has been done everyday for roughly the past six years. I bring the realm of silence into my day to day existence and although some times it's two steps forward and one step back because the conditioned mind is relentless, the process is a continuation into the expansion of the heart. And with the expansion of the heart comes the expansion of love into my day to day life and the life of others.

This expansion doesn't take thought, it takes a settled mind. The subtitle of my book "You Are Not Your Thoughts" was chosen for this reason. All created stories are only attached thoughts, when I started understanding this "I" was understood and it was the beginning of the end of life as it was once known. This brought me to the realm of silence and this realm is not something that can be manufactured by thought; thought will only hinder this. This realm of silence is where our true nature manifest, it’s where one connects to all of life and basks in the warmth and sunlight of love. It’s our true home, our place of peace that passes all understanding, it’s the truth of existence, but it doesn't need any of what is written here to be because it exist without one single thought…