Blind Tools

There’s an energy that occurs in life that keeps non beneficial tools in place without investigating them. The issue with this is these tools are passed on to others so it’s as though the blind are leading the blind…

If there are non beneficial actions and reactions in your daily decision making process without investigation, there will be many decisions made without knowing if they are truly beneficial. When these tools are passed on to others it equates to the blind leading the blind; very few people truly understand the Conditioned Mind. Without the discipline that provides some stillness, unquestioned energy is followed simply because it’s in place. To the Conditioned Mind there’s no need for questions because it has all the answers. Saying I’m not there yet is just crazy and it’s a created block that hampers the ability to live in a beneficial way. If you’re not there yet wherever there is, what do you think it will take to get there? What amazes me is how people settle for a place just because it’s comfortable and someone else says it’s beneficial.

To me it’s just mind boggling how a person holds onto what they have in place and not even consider there might be another way to see things. What’s mind boggling about this is how this energy keeps you in a self created prison that causes suffering; life doesn’t cause suffering the Conditioned Mind does. Unless you’re willing to sit and allow the mind to settle, the energy of the Conditioned Mind will remain in place and you’ll continue to use broken non beneficial tools that cause suffering. Here’s the real issue with this, these tools are passed on to others and this makes it as though the blind are leading the blind…

Let Go

Learn to let go of what happens so it remains where it arises from. Once something is done it is done, there’s no need to create a burden out of it, that is unless you think who you are needs to attach to it…

Learn to never hold onto the conditioning that arises which makes you act and feel in a non beneficial way. Who you think you are is not who you truly are nor are you who someone else thinks you are. This is a very valuable lesson to learn in this process of life if you’re to truly experience peace. We get so caught up in the non beneficial actions of the Conditioned Mind that instead of being able to remain present and not attach to our conditioning, we actually give it the energy needed for it to remain in place and block out the peace that’s available. Peace is always there, but it’s blocked out by Conditioned Mind energy that we ourselves allow. You may not always act in a beneficial manner that you or anyone else deems appropriate for a given circumstance, but it’s never who you are so there’s reason to hold onto it. Non attachment to who you think you are has to be let go of if there’s to be any semblance of peace.

Non attachment is critical because there’s so much non beneficial reactions due to the conditioning in place; if there’s attachment your thoughts will keep going round and round in a circle. You do something, it’s attached to as being who you are so now it’s labeled accordingly and hence there’s no peace. This is attachment energy and there’s no peace here because this energy creates bondage to who you only think you are; not who you truly are. Learn to let what happens remain where it occurs. Once something is done it is done, there’s no need to create a burden out of it, that is unless who you think you are needs to attach to it…

Automatic Decisions

A mind that’s conditioned makes automatic conditioned decisions. It’s only through a view of love that true decisions are made; decisions guided by the Universe that come from the heart…

Most decisions you make in life are made based on how much the Conditioned Mind controls you. You may think you’re making decisions, but you’re only doing what you’ve been conditioned to do. This is the way a person who is conditioned has to be, there really isn’t a choice. You may think you’re making decisions based on thinking you have free will, but this is just part of the conditioning. Look at the nonsense that goes on between your ears, it’s truly mind boggling how the Conditioned Mind is controlling ever decision made…

If you don’t think this is so, try sitting still for a half hour, if you can’t do it don’t be discouraged, not many people can. If you can’t control your own mind when you’re consciously trying to do it what makes you think you’re in control when you’re not trying. Why it’s so hard to do is because the unconscious mind has a worldly view with eyes based in worldly things.

An awakened mind is an awakened heart and with this comes the view of love. With this view no one controls you but the universe. Unconsciousness is everyone’s misgiving. With a view of love life is always exactly the way it’s suppose to be because it’s the way that it is. When it’s time for it to be different it will be; understand though even when it’s different, it’s still the way that it is.

No one controls what is, but one is controlled by their conditioning until the view of life is through the eyes of love. It’s only through the eyes of love that you can be free of the Conditioned Mind and thus have your automatic decisions be guided by the Universe. If not, there really aren’t decisions being made because there is no choice but to be automatically controlled by the Conditioned Mind. Break free of this conditioning by viewing life through the eyes of love or light, the eyes of the spirit, or the eyes of God if you’d like, or not and remain automatically controlled as if you were a puppet on a string…

Loving Heart

It’s the love of your own heart that provides the opportunities for life lessons to be learned. Judgements don’t provide this, all they do is disconnect you from the love of the heart…

Follow your heart no matter what others say. People judge, it’s what they do, but never give in to their judgements. Even if someone thinks they know you because of similar experiences, it means little because everyone has their own interpretations of the way things are. Following your heart doesn’t mean you will always do what is right, but it does mean what you do is of love and really that’s all that what matters. Even if what you do seems self serving, there will be lessons learned as long as there’s love in your heart.

I have been called a wanna be guru, a know it all, an ego maniac, amongst other things and whether they’re true or not isn’t really a concern of mine because it’s the love of my heart that judges me and provides life lessons to be learned not the judgments of people; as long as the heart is followed the lessons learned will allow for the removal of your blocks to love. By staying true to your heart you’ll stay true to yourself and your life’s base will be of love.

Not everyone will agree with what someone does because not everyone can see the love of another’s heart; unless they have the same love in their heart. Love is the energy of the Universe not of individuality so all hearts of love are connected, but when there’s judgment it breaks the connection. Why can’t people allow others to learn their own lessons, it’s because the love of their own heart is blocked which breaks the connection to each other. This is what judgements do, they disconnect the unity provided by the love of the heart…

Adhering Mind

The Adhering Mind is noticed when things aren’t the way that they’re wanted, but even when the expectations are in your favor, it’s still the Adhering Mind that’s in control…

Let go and be free or hold on and suffer, that is the dilemma. Expect things a certain way and when they aren’t that way, the next step in the process is the reaction to the different results of what is expected. Peace or suffering, that‘s always the choice. If we adhere to the results that are different than expected it will create suffering. You are the one creating it, because you are the one who is adhering to the different results of your expectations. Disappointment is only unpleasant because it’s made so.

When there’s expectations there’s labels and with attached labels there’s clinging. The more we label the more we expect and the more we will cling; this is the Adhering Mind. Even if the expectation works out the way you think they are suppose to be, there’s still clinging, but we don’t notice it as a problem because it’s the way that it’s wanted. So the Adhering Mind clings to everything that is labeled, and it labels everything so we adhere to everything, but we don’t notice it because we mostly focus on things that don’t go our way.

The only way to be free of the Adhering Mind is to not label things. The labeling process of our mind produces clinging, the letting go process through non-judgement produces freedom. It’s a choice that needs to be made so the moment to moment expectations don’t cause suffering. Life is one continuous expectation, but because it’s only in the disappointing labels that we think our Adhering Mind clings, we are unaware of this moment by moment labeling process. When the mind quiets enough to innerstand this, the labeling process of everything as this or that will lessen, and so will the expectations. This results in a mind the is free of clinging and the effects of a Adhering Mind. Without this adhering effect it is impossible to suffer so the dilemma may be ours, but the suffering is optional…

Love Yourself to Love Others

No one harms you as much as you harm yourself and it’s done through your own thoughts. The essence of life is to truly learn to love yourself unconditionally so you can in turn love others…

For forty nine years I did things to myself that I wouldn’t allow anyone to do to me. Not all of these were self destructive actions, some were in the form of very subtle thoughts, but it was harmful nonetheless. If I truly loved myself I would have never done this, but I didn’t know any better so my self destructive behavior was normal to me. I’m not talking about lip service love here, I’m talking about genuine unconditional love where there is absolutely no judgement whatsoever. Love is a word that is given more lip service than actual action. You will never truly love your neighbor if you don’t really understand how to love yourself and this is because you can never be anything different than what you are in any given moment.

Everything that’s done are the results of learned behaviors and are either loving or not. Love yourself to the point where you don’t want to not only cause harm to others, but also you don’t want to harm you. For me although it may seem as though I share to help others, it’s only partially so. I share because it reinforces the love I have for myself. This isn’t an ego thing, it’s about learning how we are our own worse enemy, that is until we aren’t. There was no greater harm done to me by anyone than what I did to myself, but in the space of quietness I have learned to stop doing this. Life really isn’t about being good, moral, honest, or any other story that can be made up, it’s one thing and that’s to truly learn to love yourself unconditionally so you can in turn love others…

Insignificant Thoughts

The simple word “no” can be used to cut off attaching energy to a thought. In this are infinite possibilities, but these possibilities will only occur when a thought is seen for its insignificance…

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

Reflection is a valuable tool in developing the awareness to just see an insignificant thought arise and not give any credence to it. That it arises means nothing, what is done with it after it arises means everything. If a thought arises about something that happened in the past, it doesn’t have to be given attaching energy. It can simply be reflected upon and seen as an insignificant thought, nothing more. The Conditioned Mind is programmed to make a story out of it, but with discipline this can be seen and the simple word “no” can be used to cut off any attaching energy. In the simple word of “no” are infinite possibilities, but only when a thought is seen for its insignificance…

Chasing Lies

Whatever is chased after that you think is needed to be happy will be what becomes your lie. It’s not right or wrong, but the key is to understand if this lie will truly provide what you think it will…

To me, whoever is looked upon for inspiration or whatever, it should be noted that most likely they didn’t always see things as they do now. I’m fortunate to have experienced two totally different ways of viewing life, it’s where my insights arise from and the reason why I share what I do. Having lived a lie for so many years has actually become my greatest asset. When I write about something it’s always from a lie that’s been exposed, it’s never about being smarter or knowing more than anyone else; what’s there is simply what’s there and it’s what’s shared. When I talk about quietness or stillness it’s because I lived the lie which is a life full of noise. When there’s talk of attachment, it’s because attachment was the master lie.

Everyone who is alive experiences life, it’s what’s done with the experience that determines if you chase a lie. An example is if you think you need to have material things to be happy, that will be your lie. It’s not right or wrong, but the key is to understand if the lie will provide what you think it will. Deep down inside having material things doesn’t change you. For me I went through a life of much suffering, always immersed in the lie of what my Conditioned Mind made me believe was happiness; today I see this for the lie that it is. When I write something it’s because I can see the lie I was stuck in; today I have been provided with a view of true liberation. I know I’m very direct in my approach, but I’m not insensitive to anyone else’s view, it’s just that I’ve lived the lie and because of this I can see that far too many are still chasing it…

Amusing Yourself

One who constantly needs to grasp for things to provide amusement is blocked out from what life truly has to offer which is to be with what’s here right now instead of constantly needing to amuse yourself…

The title of this article refers to becoming so fixated at amusing yourself with outside activity that you’re not truly living life. Probably 99% of our time is spent providing ourselves with some form of amusement; to me anything that is reached for gets the label amusement attached to it. From the morning cup of coffee, or giving up caffeine and not having coffee, both are used to provide the amusement that life being a certain way makes it better. If this was true everyone would be the same because it would be known what the best way is, but this isn’t true so we all amuse ourselves that our way is the best. If we didn’t amuse ourselves with this thought we wouldn’t do what we do; we are our own worse enemy. There’s nothing outside that does the harm to you that you do to yourself, the real issue with this is it’s done because we think we’re amusing ourselves to the point where life isn’t truly lived. We are always seeking to be amused in one way or another.

In our leisure time we are constantly amusing ourselves with things that are considered pleasurable. Food is a main source that we use for our amusement, vacation is another. Watching or going to sporting events, watching tv or going to the movies are also used. Then there’s alcohol, drugs, gambling, porn, sex, using tobacco products, golfing obsessively, the spiritual path, and so on. These are just some of the mindless activities that are reached for to amuse ourselves. Look at the past and reflect upon all the things used that provided amusement; they only exist in the mind. One who constantly needs to grasp for things to provide amusement is blocked out from what life truly has to offer which is to be with what’s here right now instead of constantly trying to fill the need to amuse yourself…

Constant Motion

Life is constant motion, it never stops. If the motion of the moment is noticed it will allow much more innerstanding of your life than if you’re blindly controlled by past habitual mind patterns…

If the motion of the moment isn’t seen, that’s when the habitual conditioned patterns from the past take over; it’s just the process in place. You can be in a state where you are happy and out of nowhere arises something that triggers one of your past habitual patterns. Depending on what arises is based in that is what will determine if you are still happy after the moment is attached to. This is how it works, we’re pulled around by patterns and the motion of the moment is unnoticed so it’s controlling energy attaches to what pattern is associated with the moment. This is where everything arises from, feelings, emotions, sensations, and whatnot, hence the puppet on a string syndrome takes hold if the motion of the moment isn’t noticed. Think about this, you can’t have any feeling or emotional swings without attachment to the motion of the moment. Most people don’t really have any inkling of this and because of this very few truly live life. I don’t say this in jest as I’m no different, although I do probably notice this a little more nowadays.

Here’s something to do to possibly innerstand the motion of the moment a little better. Make a commitment to sit for a certain time, say thirty seconds, keep it real. In those thirty second just watch what arises, watch the motion, a thought arising and just notice the motion. Just sitting, looking, acknowledging, noticing, letting it arise and pass; all of this is just the motion of each particular moment. This should help in getting a better grasp on the moments motion. Increasing or decreasing the committed sitting time is up to the individual or don’t sit at all and remain a slave to the motion of the moment as it arises and habitually controls your life. It’s the motion of each moment that makes life what it is and if this goes unnoticed so will most of your life…

Delusional Awakening

Most people are delusional with 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 delusions are created by your own mind; until there’s awareness of this the delusions remain. One of the most important things to realize when it comes to breaking free of your delusions is the mind that tells you to do something is the same mind that questions why it was done. Think about how it’s your own mind questioning 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 ever realizing it, but don’t be fooled by the questioning because even our judgements that aren’t questioned create just as much delusion. To be awake is to be aware of this nonsense.

An awakening isn’t a magical state, it’s becoming aware of the thoughts that hold you in captivity, that’s basically it. It’s in this awareness that you’ll naturally stop attaching to your 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 own created delusions hold you in captivity…

Silence Within

It’s the surface view of satisfying self that keeps you from the inner silence of seeing your own majesty. This silence can only occur when your view comes from the silence within…

Although no one is better than another in this existence, there are some who do see things quite differently than the surface view; not sure what makes this happen for some and not others. I wouldn’t label some as special, but I would say some are more inclined to not attach to a surface view which allows for much more inner silence than if you are in the grip of a mind based surface view. I have lived both, one which was on the surface where there was much self created suffering and the one I’m living now which is a inner view in the direction of silence. The differences in the two views is one created suffering and was done in ignorance and the other is lived in awareness of the ignorance. Today my view is as it is because the surface distractions don’t control me as they once did. I’m still in the world, but I’m not as controlled by it.

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

One Truth

Truth isn’t something to create so life fits nicely into a mind made story of the way you think life should be. Truth is already in place and doesn’t need to be created to make it so…

Although awakening is a process of becoming aware of what blocks the heart from love; it only opens and expands each day by developing a daily mindfulness and sitting practice. For me because of this, no longer does the world revolve around my “I” it more so revolves around the “I” of others. Each day I bring a vision of how I can be a benefit to others by writing and posting a daily article, this has been done everyday for the past six plus years. There is awareness into my day to day existence and although there are some mishaps because the Conditioned Mind is relentless, the process is a continuation into the expansion of truth; with this expansion of truth 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 of truth are only our attached thoughts. When this was understood “I” was understood and it was the beginning of the end of the life of lies I lived. This brought me to the realm of the unknown (truth). This realm is not something that can be brought about by thought; thought blocks truth. Stillness is where the realm of the Spirit and our true nature manifest. It’s where one connects to all of life and feels the warmth and truth of the Sunlight of the Spirit. It’s our home, our place of the peace that passes all understanding; it’s the truth of existence. This needs no story to be, you only need to stop thinking to allow this truth to arise…

Undistracted Oneness

Without the distractions of the Conditioned Mind there’s no separation in what’s being observed so there’s a natural oneness that can only occur without labeling it as so…

Most people think of others as separate from themselves and to the Conditioned Mind it certainly seems that way, but when the mind settles there’s a place where not one word is needed to see this fabrication of separation is a conjured up story. The Conditioned Mind is based in thought and although there’s nothing wrong with thought itself, life doesn’t need thought to be. All that happens in life does so without any attachment to the thoughts that your conditioning puts in place, this is what separates everything and puts it into a conditioned category.

When something is observed through the senses and put into a certain category, it separates because it is seen as being out there. Once something is out there, unity, harmony, cohesiveness, oneness, and on and on is lost. This separation only happens through thought. I was walking in a park yesterday observing all that was going on; there were many pigeons close by. I didn’t make up a story of anything in particular so by just observing without applying a particular label to anything, there wasn’t separation. It’s actually a pretty cool place to be as there’s no resistance in this place of what’s happening so there’s much freedom. For me I’m particularly at peace when I’m walking in the park because there’s a focused mindfulness on the present moment and there aren’t many inner distractions, and without the distraction of the Conditioned Mind, there’s no separation in what’s being observed so there’s a natural oneness that can only occur without distractions…

Revealed Delusions

You can only see things as they’re revealed to you and although it can’t be any other way this doesn’t mean it’s truth that’s seen, it just means it’s the way you have been conditioned to see things…

Unless you truly investigate yourself to the point where you see your delusions, truth will continue to be something made up. Knowing this makes it difficult at times responding to some of the post to my articles as many don’t come from a place of stillness (truth); a lot respond from the noise of the Conditioned Mind. I don’t say this because I know everything, matter of fact I know very little, but what I do know doesn’t seem to be comprehended by some. I know this simply by the responses there are to some of my articles. This isn’t a popularity contest and what people think of me is not a concern; planting seeds of truth is all that matters. I’ve been removed from many groups because my post are misinterpreted as me stating my truth, but I never profess to know what truth is, I only talk about what remains after the delusions are revealed.

The other day someone wrote there are seven billion truths in the world because there are roughly seven billion people, but this is the major issue with humanity, everyone perceives things their way and because of the conditioning it’s thought to be truth; there’s only one truth and no I don’t know what it is. Just because you think it, see it, or someone else writes it and you attach to it and believe it, it means nothing. Truth can’t really be known, but one can see the delusions in place. When this happens creating truth isn’t needed because it naturally arises; no individual story necessary. Whenever I write about emotions, forgiveness, hope, and so on, it always stirs up the conditioning in others because it usually reveals some delusional attachment. I will never waver from what has been revealed to me because I can’t. Popularity is not what I seek, selling books is not what I seek, matter of fact there’s nothing sought because I know there’s only one truth and when seven billion people stop making up their own, just maybe there will be peace on earth…