Conditioning in Place

It would be nice if you were able to pick and choose how you were going to react to situations, but not many people really have this choice because of the conditioning in place…

The conditioning in place is the deciding factor of why people react in a certain manner and do certain things. All the pressure of either acting or not acting in a certain way is self imposed, it's a by product of the Conditioned Mind. If your behavior is thought to be beneficial or non beneficial neither result really matters because if you could act differently you would, but since you can't, you don't.

There isn't an on and off switch to your conditioning. This isn't easy to accept when you’re aware of your behavior, but there are issues because sometimes the awareness isn't strong enough to counter the conditioning, and some unwanted behavior will make its way into daily living. I only say unwanted in the sense that it's not behavior conducive to love and this results in not being much of a benefit to anyone. I don't much care for it when this occurs, but I do accept it because there's not much I can do about it.

Most of the time the awareness occurs after the reactive behavior is done so there's no benefit in regretting it. Why regret something that is beyond your control, it doesn't mean we don't learn from it, but the understanding of the conditioning is essential in remaining a instrument of love. Beating yourself up and carrying around the burden of your conditioning benefits no one. So here is what's needed if you’re to understand the fine line between blaming yourself for your conditioned behavior or accepting that you do what you do because that's what's in place. Learn to sit so your mind settles down and develop an understanding that you’re perfect just the way you, but there’s probably room to let go of some conditioning…

Delusional Awakening

Most people are delusional when it comes to what an awakening is, but for those truly awake they are awakened to the delusion; the mind that tells you to do something is the same mind that questions why it was done…

All delusional views are created by your own mind and until there’s awareness of this, the delusional view remains. To me the most important thing to realize when it comes to breaking free of a delusional view is the mind that tells you to do something is the same mind that questions why it was done. Think about how your mind questions itself, so what you’re basically doing is arguing with yourself. What's crazy about this is it's almost like there are two entity's with different perspectives. This goes on in most lives every single day without any realization of it, but don't be fooled by the questioning because even our judgements that aren't questioned create a delusional view; to be awake is to be aware of this nonsense.

An awakening isn't magical, it’s simply becoming aware of the thoughts that hold you in captivity, that's it. It's in this awareness that you’ll naturally stop attaching to these captivating thoughts. Being awake doesn't stop them from arising, but with the awareness they're there, the nonsense of when happens when there's attachment to them is seen. Until this is realized the mind that tells you do something will continue to question why it was done, and there will continue to be judgements of others as your created delusional view holds you in captivity…

A Moment Arising

Life hinges on a single attached thought; the next moments arising is from here. Learning to skillfully see this so your attachments are at a minimum determines how the next moment arises…

The thoughts you attach to make up your belief system. This is done 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’ll remain in place. The more you think your created belief system is the right one, the harder it will be to see beyond it. Attaching to each moment through thought is delusional because there’s no solid foundation to a thought and everyone has different ones, that's why everyone sees things differently.

There's only one truth (I don’t know what it is, but I do know what it isn’t) and until this is seen in each moments arising without attachment life will remain delusional. To get to a point where it's not delusional, one has to get beyond the attached thoughts that hold your belief system (conditioning) in place, regardless of what it is. Each moment arises independently, it’s a person's conditioning that determines what happens next and how the next moment will play 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 with it. The truth is you’re never separated from life, but it feels this 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 arising is from here. Learning to skillfully see this so your attachments are at a minimum determines what the next moment will be…

Two Available Options

There are always two options available to choose from, one option is you run away from life, but that follows you everywhere. The other option is to be willing to face life which is the one that brings freedom…

Suffering in some form is pretty much a given because of the Conditioned Mind, but it doesn’t have to be this way. There are many lessons to learn in our life and until it’s realized there are two options, most people are likely to be stuck in the one where suffering follows you everywhere. This is the dog chasing its tail suffering and it never ends because it can’t. It’s controlling energy is immersed in the attachment to “I” and as long as this is in place it will follow you everywhere. “I” attachment keeps one side firmly locked in place, nothing satisfies the unquenchable thirst of “I” so this is why the suffering follows you everywhere; “I” is always thirsty. Even though this is the suffering that’s in place for most, there is another option that’s beneficial to your well being and this is because it brings you to a state where there is freedom.

This freedom is from the attachment to “I” not from suffering, but without “I” there’s no one to suffer. This option leads to freedom because as agitated energy arises and it will, instead of attaching to it you allow it to bring you to new insights and revelations; you are with the pain of what arises instead of pushing it away. There’s no reaching to mask it, there’s no running from it or using something as a distraction. What happens when you make a stand with what arises is the lies of “I” are exposed and if there’s no “I” there’s nothing for the suffering to follow; liberation naturally occurs. Read this very carefully and if the full meaning of this can be grasped, freedom from the suffering that’s been following you around for most of your life will begin to fall away, but understand this will only occur when “I” attachment isn’t the only option…

Attachment Restrictions

Whatever it is that you attach to it becomes your restricting energy. If you don’t stop attaching so there’s some space created that’s needed to see truth, you will be the one who will suffer the most…

The so called choice to attach to things is the gateway to suffering, but there really isn’t a choice here because of the way the Conditioned Mind is in control; suffering is inevitable because of the conditioned attachment that’s in place. If this is to change you will have to create space so the attachment is first replaced by stillness and than love; there’s no way around this. Attach to whatever the flavor of the day, week, month, or year is, just understand there will always be something to attach to which will cause you to suffer. Today it’s politics, a narrative, tomorrow it’s a co worker, the job, traffic, weather, relatives, and so on. This will never change until there’s space for truth. If you attach to something and bemoan it, you don’t truly have the space for truth; this is strong language, but it’s true.

Truth can only be seen without one iota of attachment; this is a truth the Conditioned Mind doesn’t allow most to see. I can say I have love for all humanity, what I don’t love is humanity’s conditioning, but I do understand it and I choose not to attach to conditioned nonsense. To attach to things is to suffer regardless of who or what you are attaching to because it becomes your restricting energy. Until this is understood you become the very energy of your attachment. This is a Universal Law; you cannot be separate from the energy that comes from you because it’s in you. Stop attaching and create space in your heart for truth, if you don’t you’re the one who will suffer the most by remaining with the restricting energy of what it is you’re attaching to…

The Reason Why

Nothing is done or held onto without a reason why and if that reason isn’t understood, you will unconsciously succumb to its consequences as if you were a dog on a leash…

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

As stated before, why it’s so difficult to see this is because what’s being held onto 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 what you think you need to feel good (pleasure) the object becomes your prison. So if the reason why something arises and is held onto isn’t understood, you might as well keep the dog collar on because when your conditioning says it’s time for a walk you’ll have to go because the conditioning in place isn’t understood…

Mind Nonsense

Mind nonsense will never quiet on its own regardless of what your belief system is. Beliefs hinder the quieting because they're just a response to mind nonsense that blocks your inner presence…

If your mind nonsense is in control and running your life, it doesn't matter what's going on, it's going to be difficult to be in a place of peace. It's such a nonsense filled world and what makes it so is most people are looking for an answer outward when the answer is within. What the nonsense actually is and how it's created is by not being aware that you already have your answers. With a mind that's conditioned to want answers you have to constantly look for them, hence the mind nonsense. This is how the nonsense of a Conditioned Mind is formed and how it blocks awareness to your inner presence. It's nonsense created because if you knew you had your answers, the need to look for them would be non existent and so would the mind nonsense.

Everyone has the ability to consciously quiet the mind nonsense, but it’s not something that's just going to happen on its owns. Isn't it beautiful that your peace is in your hands, that it’s totally up to each individual how much peace is brought into your life. A little practice equates to a little peace so it's up to each individual to do what's necessary to stop the mind nonsense. As you practice being in the moment the mind nonsense quiets and you're left with an inner presence. If you’re waiting for anything else you’ll be waiting a very long time and it will probably not happen in this lifetime…

Present Moment Truth

Many get stuck in the past or future as the lie of “I” is never understood and because of this life becomes about whatever story is made up as the truth of the Present Moment is missed…

Emptiness is a lack of inherent existence, when it comes to the mind emptiness is its true nature. The reason I say this is because there is nothing in the mind that is inherently there. In this emptiness arises the conditioned nature of “I” but there is no “I” it exist strictly from the story that the mind makes up; there’s no inherent existence. There’s the body that exist and all it’s labeled components, but if each component was unlabeled, the body would still exist, just not as an “I” form. Look deep within to see if you can truly find “I”. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. It doesn’t mean if the form is reduced it disappears, it means in its reduction is the form itself; these are opposites sides of the same coin. Everything that makes up our “I”, ideas, concepts, memories, feelings, emotions, judgement, likes, dislikes, opinions, experiences, and so on is attached to as the body, hair, limbs, and so on, but if you look for “I” behind all this it doesn’t inherently exist. This is what stillness is truly all about, stripping away the layers of all this false identification. We identify with all the wrong things and ignore the truth of the Present Moment.

The only reason to look within is to expose this lie of “l” there’s no other reason. A reason can be made up, but this is why many remain stuck in the past and future because the lie of “I” is never understood. Life becomes about whatever story is made up, but the truth of what’s here in the Present Moment is missed. This is what “I” is, a story nothing more. It’s seen as real, but the realness of it can never be grasped. Story after story is created with itself always at the core. Investigate this to see if you can find “I” remember though not the story of “I”, but the truth of “I” in the Present Moment.

Inner Agitations

All agitations arise from within your inner questions. Without awareness of this the mind that’s full of questions won’t have any answers provided so you will have constantly need to look for them…

All agitations are ego based because they come from the Conditioned Mind. If you’re agitated with what’s written here, that arises from within you; the words don’t cause it. It doesn’t matter if you agree with this or not, just understand if you’re agitated it comes from within you, not from what’s written. We do love to blame others for our own self created agitations, but the only reason this is done is because of the lack of understanding of our own mind.

Nothing causes an agitation unless it’s allowed. If you can change something by all means change it, but if it’s being changed just because you don’t like it, it needs to be looked at why there’s an agitation to begin with because even if the thing is changed, you will just move on to the next thing that will cause you to become agitated.

Everything I’ve come to understand over the last thirteen years has arisen from within myself. It has been through awareness that real answers have arisen directly from my own inner questions. I can’t have anyone else’s answers because the one who questions is the one who has the answers. I don’t have your answers because I don’t have your questions; everyone has their own questions to answer. Truth is the same for all beings, but how we come to its understanding is from the questions within ourselves. When one sits in stillness, revealed are answers to our questions, this is when agitations with yourself and with the world will be no more…

Wanting Bondage

The senses are directly linked to the bondage of self as is the wanting view. If you really want to understand your life from the spiritual realm you’ll have to get very quiet and become aware of just how subtle the wanting mind is…

Through the senses life is labeled, and those labels are constantly being applied. Everything is judged, even labeling a pen on the desk is a judgment, not a harmful one, but a judgment just the same. When you learn not to label you can become aware of the distractions that keep you from going beyond wanting. With this new awareness your mind finally settles enough to notice the deeper view. This is the initial awareness, but it will require much more quietness to go deeper yet. The deeper you go, the more you will have to let go of wanting which is the sensory world. And the more the material world is let go of, the more you will understand the deeper view and the freer you will be.

The only reason life is viewed wanting (materially) by so many people is because the quietness that’s necessary to view it differently isn’t in place. Wanting isn’t something that’s wrong, it’s just limiting. Without discipline to understand the difference between a wanting view and a deeper view, there will be no difference and the wanting view will be the only view that you have. Not wrong, but limiting, and what’s limited is how the wanting view is never satisfied and is always seeking which blocks out a deeper view…

Sheepishly Controlled

Thoughts arise, but they don’t have to sheepishly control you. If there isn’t awareness of this your thoughts will sheepishly be attached to which will make you blindly follow them...

If there isn’t awareness of your own thoughts, there won’t be anyway of knowing how much you sheepishly follow them. Without this awareness you'll sheepishly be a follower (fearful) instead of a leader (truthful). Life doesn’t do anything directly to anyone, but thoughts arise and they determine what your life will be like. Awareness of your arisen thoughts is essential if you’re to not be sheepishly controlled by them. Thoughts are a natural part of life, they will arise there's no way of controlling the thoughts that arise, but I have found that awareness of them allows for a split second of space that can be used to determine whether or not you become a sheep or a leader; it’s the attachment to a thought that causes being a follower, not the thought itself.

The Conditioned Mind is devious and unless there's some awareness of how controlling it is, it will control you as if you were a sheep in a herd. So subtle is this that even if you are doing things that are labeled as loving, if these thoughts aren't watched they will eventually control you; being controlled is being a follower regardless of what label is applied to the thought. This is why the Conditioned Mind is devious because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to keep you sheepishly controlled. Thoughts will arise, but they don’t have to control you. If there isn’t awareness of this, your thoughts will sheepishly be attached to which will make you blindly follow them...

Present Reality

Many get stuck seeking because the lie of "I" is never understood and life becomes about whatever story is made up as the reality of the Present is missed...

The definition of emptiness is a lack of inherent existence. When it comes to the mind this is its true nature and the reason I say this is because there is nothing in the mind that is inherently there. In this emptiness arises the conditioned nature of "I" but there is no substance to "I". It exist strictly from the story that's made up; there's no inherent existence. There's the body that exist and all it's labeled components, but if each component was unlabeled, the body would still exist, just not as an "I" form. Look deep within to see if you can truly find where "I" is. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. It doesn't mean if the form is reduced it disappears, it means in its reduction is the form itself; these are opposites sides of the same coin. Everything that makes up our “I” ideas, concepts, memories, feelings, emotions, judgement, likes, dislikes, opinions, experiences, and so on is attached to as the body, hair, limbs, ideas, and so on, but if you look for "I" behind all this it’s doesn’t inherently exist. This is what stillness is truly all about, stripping away the layers of all the false identification. We identify with all the wrong things and ignore the reality of the Present.

The only reason to look within is to expose this lie of "l" there's no other reason. A reason can be made up, but this is why many remain stuck seeking because the lie of "I" is never understood. Life becomes about whatever story is made up, but the reality of what’s here in the Present is missed. This is what "I" is, a story nothing more. It's seen as real, but the realness of it can never be grasped. It just creates story after story with itself always at the core. Truly investigate this to see if you can find "I" remember though not the story of “I”, but the reality of the Present...

Surface Bondage

The senses are directly linked to the bondage of self as is the surface view. If you really want to understand your life from the spiritual realm, you’ll have to get very quiet and become aware of how subtle the bondage of self is…

Through the senses life is labeled, and those labels are constantly being applied. Everything is judged, even labeling a pencil on the desk is a judgment. Not a harmful one, but a judgment just the same. When you learn not to label you can become aware of the distractions that keep you from going beyond surface living. With this new awareness your mind finally settles enough to notice the deeper view. This is the initial awareness, but it will require much more practice to go deeper yet. The deeper you go, the more you will have to let go of the material world, which is the sensory world. And the more the material world is let go of, the more you will understand the deeper view and the freer you will be.

The only reason life is viewed on the surface (materially) by so many people is because the quietness that’s necessary to view it differently isn't practiced. This isn't something that is wrong, but it is limiting. Without the discipline to understand the difference between surface living and the deeper view, there will be no difference and the surface view will be the only view that you will have. Not wrong, but limiting, and what is limited is your view…

The Movie of Life

Life is a movie and you’re either playing a role or you’re watching it. The difference in watching it unfold is so much more beneficial than playing an unconscious scripted conditioned role…

Life is a movie and you’re either in the movie or you’re watching it. When you’re in the movie you’re controlled by it. The movie dictates what your role is. The script is your Conditioned Mind, things happen and you react with your conditioned script. The movie needs for each person to play their part or there wouldn’t be one.

When you watch the movie you see what happens instead of being controlled by it. The movie is always playing, your role is determined by how conditioned you are to either watch it or be in it. There is such a difference in the two; watching it is so much more beneficial. Unfortunately most people are in the movie, to watch it you have to be very still. The more this ability is developed to watch the movie instead of being dragged into it and becoming the main star (that’s what the ego wants you to do) the more adept you’ll be with life being lived align with love.

Years ago before life became so complex, there were silent movies; now there are no such movies. This is where the problem lies, the movie isn’t the problem, it’s the noise it produces. You can be part of the movie, but you don’t have to be part of the noise, that’s your choice. As a matter of fact our human manifestation makes us all part of the movie, but that’s not why we’re controlled by it, that occurred because of the way our Conditioned Mind has evolved. Learn to partake in a silent movie and you’ll be more of a active participant in controlling the part you play; which happens to be your life. When you can watch the movie of your life and not be drawn into a role that’s selected for you, it’s than your movie will become so much more enjoyable that you will always want to just watch it. It will be better than you ever imagined it could be. With practice you may even become aware that its the best movie ever made, but understand this, your movie is already the best movie ever made because it’s about your life. Without a settled mind you won’t know this and you’ll continue to be controlled by the noise of a scripted Conditioned Mind that allows circumstances to dictate the role you play. This is the difference between being dragged around by the assigned role or being able to just watch it and enjoy what you see. So sit back relax and enjoy the show, or not, but that’s up to you…

No Need to Know

 When you live in the quietness of the moment, you’ll realize that even if the so called mystery of life was solved it really doesn’t change much of what happens…

The mystery of life will always be. We look for answers that in truth can’t be answered. We can make up answers that fit nicely in our conditioned world, but this doesn’t make life any less of a mystery. We feel better when we answers are made, but this is only a product of our Conditioned Mind; I don’t know if the mystery is ever solved. Truthfully I don’t think it matters because it doesn’t make a difference if we know how we evolved or if we know what happens when we die; it doesn’t prevent anything from happening. It’s more of a benefit to learn how to solve the mystery of living in the moment and only with a quiet mind can this be done.

In the presence of a quiet mind it’s not that the mystery is solved, it’s more so the need to solve the mystery falls away. In quietness there’s no mystery because there’s quietness. There are so many things in life that may never be understood, but that’s not to say you can’t know truth. Knowing truth sets you free, it doesn’t solve the mystery. Truth doesn’t allow you to understand the mystery of life, but what it will allow is for you stop trying to constantly solve it. And once this occurs, you realize that whether the mystery is solved or not it doesn’t really change much…