Guiding Light

The brightness of your inner light will shine to the degree of your surrender that allows God’s loving energy to be your guide. The brighter the light the more it will be seen…

I know for many years I wandered aimlessly through life controlled by a Conditioned Mind that led me around like I was a puppet on a string. My entire existence was based from a self-serving mind and until this changed nothing was going to change; society is out of control because of this self-serving mind. Until there’s awareness of how conditioned and controlled and that it’s your own mind makes this happen, nothing will change regardless of what is done. I am not sure if anything can be done to instill this change in a person, but we must try. Although it has to come from within the individual seeds must be planted or there won’t even be the chance for someone to change.

I can love the person by understanding the conditioning is not them. This may not change them, but at least I will not be pulled into their conditioned world; I could write another book on this pull alone. Watch very closely how subtle the Conditioned Mind is. I know for me it is not my responsibility to change anyone. I have an obligation because of the insight that has been bestowed upon me, but I know I can only change myself. When I change that‘s how others change, not because of me, but because of the degree of surrender that allows Gods loving energy to be my guide. All I can do is be willing to keep looking within to expand this surrender. When we quiet the Conditioned Mind, the love that is in our heart will be our guiding light and thus we will be healed, and when we are healed we can be the guiding light to help heal others…

Natural Truth

Truth isn’t a created story nor is it something that can be manufactured. There‘s only awareness of it when your lies are exposed so expose your lies and natural truth will arise without creating it…

To me it’s clear what truth is and here’s why, fourteen years ago I started to look in a different way to live my life and at the core of this looking was the revealing of my lies. I didn’t know much about anything at the time (still don’t) but I do know I needed a different way to view life. I understood one thing, my own mind was the cause as to why there were lies so I set out to find out why this was and if it was possible to change it. As this process of self inquiry proceeded, my lies were slowly being revealed; as this happened my life become less and less about the lies. It didn’t become about anything else, it just wasn’t all about the lie of needing to fulfill my wants and desires; when this happens awakened qualities (truth) arise. This doesn’t mean everything goes your way, it doesn’t matter how it goes because there aren’t the created lies of wanting or needing things a certain way; without a created story truth is revealed.

Truth is difficult to describe in words because people create versions of it, but I have found truth is in the space of what is without labeling it; although what is has many labels it’s only dependent on what’s occurring at this time. It can be horrible, beautiful, or neutral, the label doesn’t change the truth of what’s actually occurring. Being in the space of what’s occurring now changes it and that’s because without a label there’s aren’t lies, there’s only space. In this space there’s no creating a lie and without a lie is when truth is revealed. It’s not a created version of truth, it’s the truth of just being in the space of what’s here right now and not needing to add a lie to it. In this space is where you’ll become aware of truth, but it has nothing to do with you creating it; it’s a natural truth that arises when your lies are revealed…

Process Awareness

Nothing arises randomly so if there isn’t awareness of the processes in place that determine your view of life, you will blindly live your life as if you were a puppet on a string…

Awareness of your processes in place is what allows you to be aware of what’s truly going on in your life. It’s very difficult to decipher what’s real and what isn’t, but it’s not all that difficult to innerstand the processes that make you view life as you do. Most people are led around blindly without any awareness of why and this is the reason most never break free from their Conditioned Mind; as the same energy patterns remain in place. If something has you in its grip and you don’t have awareness of the process in place that causes this, you will not have the tools to break free from it; it will mostly fluctuate throughout your life. This unawareness of what’s truly going on makes you pursue things that are not truly beneficial to your own well being, and as stated before this is strictly because the process in place isn’t allowing it.

None of our behavior is random, it manifest in the way that it does because it’s what’s in place, you can’t get oranges from an apple tree. Certain Universal Laws are in affect throughout life and regardless if the behavior associated with them is wanted or not, it will arise depending on the process that’s in control. If the process in place makes you see things from any place other than love, this will cause problems. The world is exactly the way it is because the processes in place make people act as they do. Until the processes change that make it this way people will continue to get apples from the apple tree even though oranges just may be better suited…

Delusional Attachments

Understanding the nature of delusion is an attribute of waking up, but it’s not the delusion of the world that you get entrapped to, it’s the delusion that runs your own life…

Most people are unaware of the delusion that runs their life; this delusion manifest as one attaches to their thoughts. The first thought about something is inconsequential, it’s the attachment to the second thought that forms the delusion. To understand delusion there must be awareness of attachments, desires, confusions, and the way your mind works, without this the puppet on string pattern prevails. Certain practices turn you inward to see this, if what you’re doing doesn’t turn you inward you’ll remain entrapped to your delusional state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the delusion. A broken mind can’t fix itself and as long as it’s reaching for something on the outside it remains trying to fix itself and thus it remains broken. Until this truth is seen things have to stay as they are because nothing is being done to change it.

We can only know what we know if there’s awareness of it. What this means is you have to develop mindfulness of what you’re doing as it’s being done so there’s awareness of what is being done. If you know what you’re doing as you’re doing it, it leaves little room for delusion to arise. Mindfulness is probably the most important discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment that what is being done occurs. Delusion only occurs when you live in the story that there’s a past or future. These mind made constructs keep the delusion alive. The present moment can be seen without making a story, even though it passes as quickly as it arises, but the past and future can never truly be seen without a story. Because most people lack the discipline to be present, most lives are lived in a delusional state of existence…

Spiritual Nonsense

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 see all the spiritual nonsense holding you captive…

With the emergence of the internet there’s so much information available on spirituality that it really needs to be investigated before you consider using any of it to assist in your development. Here is the definition of Nonsense: Words or signs having no intelligible meaning. Absurd behavior and or subject matter, language that’s foolish. To see if the information you’re using to develop is authentic and truly beneficial, there can’t be anything associated with it that forms attachment. Methods, programs, guru’s, life coaches, teachers, or any other form of propaganda that is used to keep you attached, just keeps you entrapped to the very thing you are trying to break free of. Just as there’s a lot of “fake news” out there today, there’s also a lot of fake information on spirituality. Being held captive is not something that’s truly understood by many people and because most of the information out there is nonsense it holds you in captivity in some way. Those telling you to buy their book, pay for retreats run by paid speakers, or follow a program (instant captivity) are clever to a fault, with the fault being keeping you in captivity.

The only thing you need to do is look within yourself 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 be created; it takes nothing but awareness to create this space. The nonsense out there that a program, book, method or whatever has your answer, will keep you held captive to the very thing you 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 captivity 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 spiritual nonsense holding you captive…

Know Your Mind

Learning to be still is how you get to know your own mind. This is something that first occurs while you begin sitting, and as this is innerstood its knowing slowly expands into your daily living…

The most important thing you can learn in life is the innerstanding of your own mind. This priceless knowledge reveals truths that all the money in the world can’t buy. One of these truths are it’s your own mind that creates its own agitations by wanting what is occurring right now or what has occurred in the past to be in some other way; hence the created agitation. And this is done so many times throughout the day that it literally seems the mind is in a constant state of agitation.

Red lights, favorite teams not winning, traffic, spouse, Facebook post, money, job, boss, coworker or workers, children, government, waiting in any line, weather, people in general, someone who’s religion is different than yours, the next right thing, wishing for this or that (this has a list all its own), opinions not agreed with, and so on. Although it may seem constant, no agitation is. Some last longer and some have more affect on what’s going on, but the bottom line is a mind agitation usually occurs because one doesn’t know their own mind. It’s difficult to stop something that isn’t known its happening and one way you can make the truth about your own mind become known is by sitting in quiet and just observing your thoughts. Don’t judge them or attach to them, don’t make up a story about the sitting, just sit and observe the thoughts; seeing how they come in, drop off and repeat the cycle. Through this process, slowly you’ll get to innerstand your mind and how it operates. This is something that first has to be known while you’re sitting and as it does become known it will slowly expand into your daily living…

Autopilot Reactions

Most reactions that occur in life are automatic and are put in place by your own conditioning. If your life isn’t lived to its fullest potential of love it’s your own autopilot ideas that are blocking it from being so…

Although things appear to be a certain way it’s not always as it seems. It’s difficult to see beyond your own mind when autopilot ideas are brought into play. So much of what the mind holds onto becomes automatic and is put in storage to be used at particular times; this is how most lives are lived. It’s as though we already have in place the way things are going to be handled; automatic reactions are formed in this way.

Advertisement is a billion dollar industry because of this. Politicians have people write speeches using certain words which they know are going to sway people in certain ways. Supermarkets know exactly where to place products. It’s all based on putting things in a certain place so automatic reactions are triggered .

This goes on constantly because the Conditioned Mind makes it so. If you had no previous conditioning none of the above methods would work, but this is not the case. One of the keys to not living an autopilot life is to a develop some way to be anchored in the present as much as you can because the more you’re present the more you’re with what life has to offer. When this occurs there’s peace because the autopilot ideas put in place by the Conditioned Mind are no longer making it appear that things are different than what they are…

Now Reality

Many get stuck seeking because the lie of “I” is never innerstood and life becomes about the story that’s made up as the reality of Now is missed…

The definition of emptiness is a lack of inherent existence. When it comes to the mind this is its true state, 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 also 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 “I” ideas, concepts, memories, feelings, emotions, judgement, likes, dislikes, opinions, experiences, 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 Now .

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 innerstood. Life becomes about whatever story is made up, but the reality of what’s here Now is missed. “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 Now…

A Viewing Heart

When there’s awareness of the heart view instead of the mind view and you don’t engage in what comes from the mind, it makes for a view of life that is much different than the view of most people…

A view from the mind is very different than a heart view; the mind has a much different agenda than the heart. Every conflict known to mankind has been because of the mind. Even when Jesus trashed the market place, it was from the mind; the proof of this was that he didn’t like what was going on; you cannot have a conflict from the heart. The heart aches at times and all compassion comes from the heart, but there’s an understanding from the heart that the mind just can’t grasp. Mind seeing is strictly from the way one is conditioned. Heart seeing arises from the space of stillness. I can tell right away when someone comes from their head because there’s attachment with what’s being said. Usually the sentences starts with my, I, me or it will be said, I see what you’re saying, but.

Seeing from the heart doesn’t make you smarter than anyone, all it means is you’ve been granted the ability to see from the heart. It’s difficult to see from the heart because of all the mind based distractions in place. These distractions keeps you entrapped to the reaching of a view from the mind. Reach, reach, reach, the heart needs no such reaching, it realizes it’s completeness as it is. When your view is from the heart you become more of an observer than a reactor, at least that’s been my experience. I’ve lived a mind based existence for many years, and even today the old conditioning tries to resurface, but because of the awareness of the different mind views there’s no engagement with what comes from the mind and this naturally allows a view from the heart to arise; when you live from the heart it makes for a view of life that’s much different than the view of most people see…

Inner Space

It’s the outer view of satisfying “I” that keeps you from the inner space of seeing your own innate beauty. This space will only occur when your view comes from the inside out…

Although no one is more special than another in this existence, there are some who do see things from inner space instead of the outside view. What makes this happen for some and not for others? I wouldn’t label some as chosen, but I would say some are more inclined to not attach to a outside view which allows for much more inner space than if you‘re in the grip of a Conditioned Mind based view. I have lived two existences, one which had an outside direction where there was much self created suffering and the other that I’m living today which is in the direction of inner space. The differences in the two views is the outside view created suffering and was done in ignorance and the inner space one allows awareness of the ignorance. Today my view is as it is because the outer distractions don’t control me as they once did. I’m still in the world, but I’m not as controlled by it.

The inner space that occurs is a by product of awareness as the outer view is let go of. This allows wisdom, insights, and space to occur. This is directly linked to the letting go of “I”; it’s “I” that attaches and causes all suffering. Ever so slowing when you begin to look inward the outer distractions of “I” fall away. To me this is what was revealed to the great mystic’s; they were considered special, but all they did was look to their inner space. This inner space is available to all, but you’ll have to overcome the outer view of “I” to not be distracted from it. It’s the outer view that keeps you from the awareness of your own innate beauty and it will only be seen when you’re aware there’s inner space…

Truth Revealed

If you’re to have the truth revealed of who you are, you’re going to have to study the Conditioned Mind and have the willingness to sit so the process of revealing the layers of your conditioning can begin…

Nothing will ever change as long you continue to blame others and look outside yourself for answers. If you don’t become aware of all the conditioning in place, having the truth of existence revealed, which requires nothing but being in its space, will be just about impossible; this is only because the Conditioned Mind doesn’t allow it. Using the onion analogy substitute the onion with humans and the core is truth. Every onion has layers, but unless the onions layers are peeled, its core will never be exposed. It will always be there as it’s a natural part of every onion, but without actually peeling the onion the core will remain hidden. The natural process of an onion is to cover its core; humans have evolved the same. The Conditioned Mind provides the layers that need to be peeled so the truth can be revealed; truth is revealed for very few people.

Underneath all the conditioning is the truth of existence; there’s no looking for answers anywhere but within this space. When the conditioning lies are peeled away one layer at a time, truth gets revealed more and more and your true nature takes hold, but if there isn’t awareness of this truth will never be revealed because it can’t. It’s like a force field is around the truth; without awareness it’s as though it’s impenetrable. But take heed because it’s not impenetrable, it’s just going to take studying the Conditioned Mind and having the willingness to begin the process of peeling away the so called onion (lies) of your conditioning so you can get to the truth of who you are…

The Elusive Now

The body is an anchor for the Now, when this alignment occurs there’s harmony, but if the body isn’t used as an anchor, the mind will continue to reach for objects and the Now will remain elusive…

Although life only happens Now, Now is probably the most elusive place for one to not only remain in, but also to get to. To me the reason for this elusiveness is because of trying to get there with the mind and most minds aren’t disciplined enough to get there, let alone stay there. Because of the way we have evolved as a species most minds are in a state of constant flux trying to figure out how to make life more pleasurable; although pleasure is attained at times it never last for long. This is how the mind views Now, it knows it’s where life happens intellectually and there’s much pleasure here, but it doesn’t fully grasp what this means so it never settles. It’s one of the reasons objects are used and until there’s a shift that allows Now to be seen through the body, the Now which allows peace remains elusive.

The body becomes the source of light for the awareness of Now when this shift happens. There’s nothing more to do with this shift except to practice becoming more aware of the source of light of the body. There are many objects the mind uses to keep Now elusive, but the body regardless of the object the mind reaches for is always in the Now. When a thief cases out a place to rob it’s happening Now, but he’s in the mind. The body is what anchors you in the Now; when this alignment occurs there’s harmony. This is as natural as life itself, but if the body isn’t used as an anchor for Now, the mind will continue its reaching for objects and Now will remain elusive…

Thinking Addiction

If there’s awareness of how much you think about yourself you just may be able to settle in a place where your emotions aren’t in control and hopefully you’ll come to realize life isn’t really about you, you just think it is…

As long as you’re alive life happens, actually life happens even if you’re not alive there just isn’t awareness of it. Life isn’t really about what happens as much as it’s about how much you relates your thinking about what happens. This is where the conditioning steps in and determines the relation to what happens next. It can be of love, it can be of hate, but for most it teeters between the two. Very few go to the extreme of either one of these emotions so the results for most humans are balanced. When these emotions do hit an extreme level the results are very noticeable and this is all contingent how much you’re conditioned to think about yourself; this thinking is what manifest as emotions. If you had love as the main influence in your life, obviously you will love more than a person who had hate as their influence. This all arises from inside the individual so if you truly notice the base of your actions you may be able to alter those actions, besides relying on divine intervention which will probably not occur, it will take some practice to allow the mind to settle so this is noticed.

The true addictions in society is thinking and when you’re the main subject of that thinking, it makes your existence very irrational. Now multiply this by billions of people and hence you have the world we live in; billions of people constantly thinking about themselves strictly for personal gain. There’s no one to blame for this because it arises from within each of us. From the mass murderer to the person who is a people pleaser, it’s the thinking mind that causes extreme emotions and everything else in between. So sit often with the intention of developing the ability to notice how much you think about yourself and you just may be able to settle in a place where your emotions aren’t in control and hopefully you’ll come to realize life isn’t really about you, you just think it is…

Unconsciously Stuck

If you’re stuck in a thought based world, most likely you’ll be stuck in an unconsciously based existence. This is a prison that you will only become unstuck from by going beyond your unconscious thoughts…

It’s impossible to be unconsciously stuck in your life unless your own mind allows it to occur. When there’s awareness of this it doesn’t mean things won’t occur that you don’t like, it just means that regardless of what happens it’s your mind that creates the unconsciousness about it and it comes from within yourself. Lots of things happen throughout the day and each time there’s a choice to hold onto it or not. Everyone has the ability within to cease creating their own unconsciousness, it just takes a certain amount of discipline for this to occur. What discipline does is it slows down the thought process that runs continuously. This slowing down is the beginning of truth being revealed. Without it the necessary quietness that allows less unconscious attachment will not happen.

If there’s continuous thought and no quiet all there will be is thought and this will not afford you the ability to watch your unconscious thoughts unfold. If this isn’t seen your mind will never slow down and there won’t be any space created between your thoughts. Life will simply be thought based and you’ll remain stuck unconsciously. When life slows down you’ll see how it’s your own mind that takes something that happens and puts it into a unconscious category. When there’s awareness of this you can break free of the hold your mind has over you and you’ll innerstand you’re not the mind, you’re beyond the thought base of being unconsciously stuck….

Created Space

In the space between your thoughts there is oneness with yourself, life, and all of creation. The more space that’s created the more love infiltrates not only your life, but the lives of all those encountered…

In each moment there’s a decision to be made and that’s to either create a story about what’s going on in the Conditioned Mind or to create space between your thoughts. These places of existence are vastly different on an individual and collective level. If the decision is to constantly create a story, your mind will never settle and your true essence of love will not be allowed to infiltrate your life or the lives of others. Love isn’t the decision of most because of the ignorance of their own conditioning. It’s what we’ve been taught so it’s what’s in place. There’s nothing right or wrong in this, it’s simply what’s in place. It will take much quietness to make a different decision, with the quietness affording the opportunity to wake up and become aware of your own conditioning.

When the decision is made to create space between your thoughts, it’s so different because it involves no conditioning at all. It’s your place of oneness with yourself and others. This is the result of what’s needed if our individual and collective state is to change. When there’s oneness with yourself you will cease fighting anything or anybody. You will not regret anything we have done in our past, you will be at peace. You will help others through the compassion of your awakened heart; self seeking will become non existent. The space between your thoughts is where it becomes known that your struggles are just what’s created by a Conditioned Mind that has been in control for far to long. So when the decision is made to create space between your thoughts, what’s discovered is love for yourself, others, life, and all creation…