Present Moment Focus

Everything arises from silence, but not everything is heard from present moment focus. Freedom from the known can happen, but only when it’s learned how to truly listen from present moment focus…

It matters little what you hear, but how you listen does matter in the sense if it comes from present moment focus. There’s all kinds of noise around us most of the time, but what’s mostly heard is labeled from our impulses and opinions. Freedom from the known can happen, but only when it’s learned how to truly listen, and you can only listen from when you’re present moment focused; this is when you truly hear. Present moment focus arises from silence, there’s nothing to think about in this state. A dog barking, a car beeping its horn, a helicopter, a waterfall, a plane, all sounds can be heard and as with any sound they can annoy you or the can anchor you in the present moment. There’s so much noise that goes on in the head, but it has nothing to do with the surrounding sounds.

Everything arises from silence, but not everything is heard from present moment focus. As I was sitting in my backyard the other day listening to birds chirping, the neighbor preceded to play music very loud to where my opinionated serenity was disturbed. I immediately took a deep breath and realized that although I was enjoying listening to the chirping birds, I wasn’t in present moment focus. If I was when the sound changed to what arose from the silence, in this case my neighbors music, I wouldn’t have been disturbed. One deep breath showed me this and it allowed the present moment focus of the sounds that were happening at that moment instead of the mind agitations of my impulses and opinions…

Trapped in Belief

When there’s a need for a belief that something outside of you will provide peace, you’re trapped in this thought. Until this is seen you’ll remain trapped in the belief that peace is outside of you…

There will never be peace in life if you’re trapped in the belief you can find peace. Peace is something that’s already within everyone, but because of the way our minds are conditioned, we get trapped in the belief that peace is something on the outside. Unfortunately beliefs are what makes the very thing you’re seeking elusive. Our beliefs are the reason there’s constant reaching for something from the outside and until these beliefs are no more, you’ll remain trapped in the thought that peace is in the next thing reached for.

The thought of being at peace isn’t peace. What has to happen if you’re to ever be at peace is there has to be an innerstanding of what’s blocking your peace. The reason why there isn peace is because of the inability to just be. When the need to reach for something arises, the entrapment to belief begins. This is a conditioned cycle that’s very difficult to break. Peace isn’t something that can be grabbed so it’s in doing less that peace arises. Many get lost in trying to find peace, but since it’s something that’s already within, the belief associated with finding it needs to be discarded so you can see it. This isn’t easy to see so I assist in any way that I can, but this isn’t done to help you find peace, it’s done so you can uncover the reason why you’re trapped in the belief you’re not at peace…

One View Limit

No view is wrong, but if you only have one it limits life and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from that one view…

Changing views is what makes life different, but it doesn’t make what happens in life different, it only makes the view of what happens different. If you’re locked into a certain view this only allows one way of seeing things. The more that view is based in the intellect, the harder it will be for there to be a shift to see things from another view. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the intellect, it just doesn’t allow for much openness. When one sees things from a view of only one way, it limits life to that one view. Most times this view isn’t even one’s own, it’s formed from someone else’s opinion, teaching, book, video, or discussion.

To be fixated on one view keeps you entrapped to the results of only that view; think about how limiting that is. No possibility of another view, always going down the same path, never allowing any new. This is so limiting, but with only seeing things through one view how limiting this is will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the minds grip lessens can assist in possibly altering a one view mind set, but there has to an inkling there’s another way to see things. It’s not that your way is wrong, it’s just that having only one view limits life and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from the one view…

Hiding From Yourself

It’s a great relief to accept yourself as you are because the only real misery is wanting you to be in some other way. When it’s realized you have been hiding from yourself there is peace…

When one awakens the great secrets of the Universe aren’t revealed, although in a way they are, what really happens when one awakens is you stop hiding from yourself. That’s the main attribute of waking up from the sleep of unconsciousness, it’s not knowing what life is all about, it’s more so not being concerned with what life is all about. The hiding, searching, reaching, need to do ceases and it’s realized what you have been running from is yourself. It’s a great relief to accept yourself as you are because the only real misery is wanting you to be in some other way. When this is seen the need to be right, and also the need for things to be different especially yourself subsides. When you stop hiding from yourself you stop searching, this occurs naturally. I hid for forty nine years and it nearly cost me my physical existence, I didn’t have a mental existence because of how the Conditioned Mind controlled me.

Basically this was my awakening, to see that I was always hiding from myself. It was revealed to me that I could stop hiding and I was going to be okay. This is a beautiful space to be in, it’s the space where the peace that passes all understanding arises. It’s not a magical place for a select few, it’s a place where everyone’s heart dwells, one just has to stop hiding to experience it. The possibilities when you stop hiding from yourself are endless, there are no blocks here so creativity arises. No one knows what might arise, but I can tell you this, when you stop hiding from yourself reaching for things stops and life is lived in the peaceful state of accepting yourself as you are because nothing more is needed…

Loving Kindness Awareness

When there’s awareness of your self centered behavior, that’s when the blocks to your own innate loving kindness starts to fall away and you begin to see life differently…

The awareness of loving kindness was alway missing in my daily activities and it caused all my problems. This is where the Conditioned Mind comes into play and causes havoc. It affects every aspect of your life in a non loving way. I can’t say there wasn’t love in my life, but by not understanding what I know today, I can see how fleeting it was because the desire to self serve was overpowering.

To me everyone has loving kindness in their heart, but it gets pushed so far down that stories of love are made instead of being in touch with it naturally. When this occurs loving kindness becomes a doing when it’s naturally something that just is. Loving kindness isn’t something that can be manufactured, it either is or it isn’t. It doesn’t pick and choose, it can’t, love just loves; unconditionally. The thing with love is most think it’s a wishy washy state of mind, but it’s not really anything, it’s just love. An applied label doesn’t enhance it, only the awareness of it allows its natural state to be. Love affects everything as does the lack of it, when there’s awareness of this the heart opens and one loves unconditionally because that’s how love naturally rolls…

Possessive Thoughts

Life happens, but it’s our own thought process that makes it what it is. Our mind creates our entire world through the possessiveness of thought…

There are things we would rather not happen in life, but they do happen and they have to be accepted or there will never be peace. At least to the extent where one can be with what’s happening instead of getting bogged down in wanting it different. Although the small stuff can seem difficult, the life altering things can seem devastating if there isn’t an awareness of how it’s the Conditioned Mind that makes this so. Loss of loved ones, rejection, homes destroyed; along with all our possessions and memories, accidents, illnesses, these are just some of the occurrences that can alter our state if they’re not accepted for what they are; and what they are is nothing but a thought.

Life occurs and through thought it appears as the mind makes it appear. There is nothing to life except what the Conditioned Mind makes it out to be. Our own mind uses thought to create an entire existence that’s only a relative reality. The more life is lived in this manner, the more difficult it is to accept what happens. This lack of acceptance is only because of a lack of innerstanding of your thought process. It’s your own thoughts that create the appearance that life has difficulties and this happens because one is trapped to the thought that everything is as it appears, but innerstand it’s only because you’ve been conditioned to do so…

What’s There Perfection

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

On a scale of how life is measured if you think it’s less than perfect it will be, but if you only give it lip service and say it’s perfect, it still won’t be. I equate this to whistling in the dark to keep away the bogeyman, as long as you're whistling the distraction will keep it in check, but the moment you stop, it will return. The key is to identify why you think life isn’t perfect and be with it as it is. People say be positive, but being positive to me doesn't change the facts of why I am labeling life as less than perfect instead of perfect. Not so pleasant stuff does happen in life and if it's just masked over it becomes engrained as an energy pattern in the subconscious that never goes away. This is how life becomes a mundane instead of perfect. Life itself is always a perfect, it's people who are conditioned to make it something else, this is another lie of the Conditioned Mind.

Most people will say life is perfect if everything is going their way, it can be a perfect regardless of the circumstances, but not because the circumstances are being ignored. It will be perfect when life is seen in the light of how all things are impermanent including life itself. Believe me I get it, being ill, losing a loved one, and many others things that occur in life suck, but what makes one think it sucks is the attachment to them. Labeling it that it sucks doesn't change what's occurring, it only changes where life is put on a measured scale. When the true essence of life (impermanence) is understood, it puts it at the scale of perfection regardless of what's going on because it’s seen that one day life in this form will not be so…

Bridging the Gap

Silence is where love bridges the gap of our humanness. This bridging comes from life itself, it’s not a doing or it would already be so. Silence is the bridge to the true essence of life…

In silence is where life truly occurs. Silence is where love bridges the gap with our humanness. Be with what is no matter what it is because it‘s what's there or it wouldn't be so. What's there cannot be changed until its not there; accept life as it is. Don't suppress it, let it flow. Any change needed will come from life itself, it’s not a doing or it would already be so. Sit in quiet, see who is sitting, who wants life different. When this self is no more that’s when life becomes different, with the difference being no longer will your humanness matter because love bridges it and takes over.

Sitting allows the mind to settle because it allows the noise in the head to subside. It will settle on its own when there’s alignment with what is. Don't think about who you are, be who you are. Your I Am needs nothing added to it to be, it’s our true essence; anything added is a story created. The more one lives by this added story the less silence there is and the less love bridges our humanness. When our humanness becomes life based, love is swallowed up under its created stories.

Just be with whatever life offers. No second thoughts of why this or that is done, just be with it, don't suppress it, let it flow. Sit often, don't attach and the mind will settle, or not and it won't. Either way life occurs, it’s just that in the silence of what's there, love bridges your humanness…

Conditioned Ignorance

As long as there's conditioning in place there will be ignorance energy in your life. This energy arises as what's seen through the eyes of the Conditioned Mind and doesn't reveal what's truly going on…

Often how things appear to the Conditioned Mind isn't actually how it is. If you truly want to see what's going on, going beyond your conditioning will have to happen. If two people are looking at same thing there’s usually two different opinions of what is seen, and than there's what's beyond the conditioning of the formed opinion, this is the truth. It's the old adage, there's two sides to every story, there's my side, your side and than there's the truth. To see what's beyond the conditioning you only need to stop labeling what is seen. Stopping the labeling process allows the mind to slow to a point where heart space opens up. It's imperative for this to happen if the conditioning that's been formed over the years is to lessen its grip.

The Conditioned Mind is so misunderstood and how this is known is because of the behavior that's in place. I look to my own reactions to know this and in the process I can see it in others; this isn't a judgement, it's factual. Know your own conditioning and you will know the conditioning of others. This is because we are all of the same energy, but not the same conditioning. Who among us is from somewhere else? Creation is creation anyway it's sliced. When the conditioning is seen for what it is, its energy begins to transform in a direction that reveals truth. As long as there‘s ignorance of this, the conditioned energy remains as the operating energy of life. This conditioned energy arises as what's seen with surface eyes and takes on many forms, but the bottom line is it's the conditioning in place and it doesn't reveal what's truly going on…

Need to Know Mind

With all the constant labeling of the “need to know” mind being put in place, this creates story after story of a life that is made up instead of living from a place where life arises without labels…

The labeling process of the mind isn’t needed to live life, but by the way the mind is conditioned it makes you believe it is. This is a major deterrent in living truly living life because with preconceived notions it puts a limit on everything. This could be called the “need to know” mind. This mind state blocks out the ability to live intuitively because it needs answers regardless if they are true or not. The Conditioned Mind creates labels just so it can l have issues, even if they aren’t beneficial.

The Conditioned Mind labels and creates issues where there aren’t any just so it has something to do. Does it not? Examples would be the weather, other peoples behavior, politics, sports, traffic, and so on. This is a dilemma because these things are used as distractions that keeps you from experiencing life beyond the noise. The Conditioned Mind creates these issues which creates a self that latches on to the labels because they‘re thought to be needed. This then creates story after story of a life that is made up instead of living from a place where life arises without labels.

The “need to know” mind does this all the time until it becomes known that this is being done. When you can look in the mirror and not see a created self, it will be the beginning of the end of created issues because although the mind may still try to create them, there won’t be a self who says “I need to know”. The mind will then settle and life will be lived from a place where there isn’t a need to know and without the “need to know” mind being in control, the labeling process will no longer be needed to live life…

Learning Presence

If you’re ever going to truly be at peace, learning how to be in a constant state of Presence so not to allow your mind agitations to take control is what needs to be learned…

Until you learn the discipline that allows the mind to settle in Presence, what’s used to quiet the cravings of your mind agitations determines your state of being. There are many many things used to satisfy these agitations; your conditioning determines this. Whether it’s sex, drugs, alcohol, food, false pride, trying to control life and others, talking about others in a slanderous way, or whatever it is that’s being used to satisfy these agitation, it will be craved until the agitation is satisfied and subsides. Something is needed to quiet the agitation until it’s learned not to allow it to arise.

When this mind agitation arises if the necessary discipline to allow Presence has been developed your reactions will be based in love. If not what arises will probably be of a self serving nature and manifest in some form that’s probably not conducive to your well being. That’s why it’s best to develop Presence that allows the mind to settle because it doesn’t allow it to become agitated.

If Presence isn’t developed the arisen agitation will constantly have to be satisfied, and they will be satisfied I guarantee you that. We are all conditioned and controlled by our mind agitations. That’s why it’s so important to practice disciplining your mind because it‘s the only way that I know to stop the mind agitations. So learn to sit and be still in Presence because the choice is to be agitated and allow your mind to control you like you‘re a puppet on a string. This choice is always yours…

God Energy

God energy is enough because in this energy we are one and since God energy is love we are love. Nothing needs to be added to be enough because we are already all that we can become…

A benefit that you’ll acquire by innerstanding what the practice of quieting the squirrel cage mind does is instead of striving to become, you’ll be guided by the Creative Intelligence of the Universe (God energy) and be in harmony with life. You will realize you are complete just as you are and nothing added can make you more complete. This is priceless because when this is experienced there’s innerstanding the difference between being and doing, and you will stop doing for the sole purpose of being. Right now, even though it may not be known, you are already all that you can be.

At the base of this understanding is God energy or Universal Love because that is who you are, nothing more can be added that would make you be something more. Even if you found the cure for cancer, it wouldn’t be enough unless it was derived from Universal Love, but it wouldn’t be the cure that would be enough, it would be the love behind finding the cure. Love is enough, only the self-serving mind needs something more in the form of an object, but it’s not really needed it’s only the ego that makes life into a belief something is needed. A belief isn’t real, it’s only a story made up by an self-serving mind that needs to become something. There aren’t any facts to a belief, but what is factual is Love; a belief or a story isn’t.

Simple realize you are who you are, it’s who you have always been and who you will always be. This is not a belief or a story, this is a fact. You cannot be anything but who you are, if you want to believe you’re a story that is who you will make yourself out to be, but it’s not who you are, it’s only your story. When this is innerstood there is peace because you stop striving to become something different. This is when the striving to become ceases and love is enough, it’s because you realize love is who you are. God energy is enough because in this energy we are one and since God energy is love we are love. Nothing needs to be added to be enough because we are already all that we can become…

Thoughts of Love

The thoughts you think can be cultivated to be based in love, but it’ll take much practice to develop the necessary discipline to notice the nonsense of your unguarded thoughts…

There are as many different views of life as there are people. Not any one is entirely right or wrong. We each have our unique way of perceiving and interpreting life, but that’s not where our differences manifest from. The base of what’s perceived and our interpretations are where our differences start to create separation in unity and that’s when there’s conflicts; this conflict is with yourself. If we all viewed life from the base of love, love would be the base of existence.

Life is Universally base in love, but then comes each individual perception and interpretation; this is where the break down occurs. Because the mind isn’t taught discipline as we are growing up, it runs rampart trying to satisfy pleasures and desires that are created by an undisciplined mind. Our unguarded thoughts are our greatest misgiving; to ourselves and to all beings. That’s why we’re our own worst enemy.

If all we had were thoughts of love conflict within ourselves would be non existent, and if we have no conflict with ourselves we wouldn’t have any conflict with others. No one can do the harm to us that we do to ourselves, but when the mind gets quiet and this becomes known we can start becoming aware of our unguarded thoughts and stop being our own worst enemy. We can then start loving ourselves the way the Universe intended, and in the process love all beings…

No True Void

There is never a void that isn’t created so there is never a true need to rely on anything from the outside of yourself; until this is seen the void will remain in place…

Think of this, every time someone goes to a program designed for a specific issue because they believe they are this or that, or a person goes to a therapist, or they reach for another self help book, or if any other type of outside help is sought, because of the applied label of having a void to fill, all you’re doing is reinforcing the attachment to that label and hence you’re keeping yourself in bondage to the void that exist only because you have created it. Read this very carefully because why this label is being applied will be the difference in breaking free from your void or remaining entrapped to it. It’s not that some of the above things mentioned don’t have value if needed at certain times in life, but if they’re being held onto as an end to a means, they lose their value as the needing morphs into a void.

Not many will see exactly what I’m talking about here, but I’m writing it because it’s what was experienced after many many years of trying to fix an internal void which was self created, with things from the outside. The very things that were used to fill this void is what kept it in place; this was regardless of what was reached for. Why this void is created is what one needs to find out because it doesn’t truly exist; since it doesn’t exist why is it there. To me if something from the outside is needed to live life something internal isn’t right. If you can’t just be with yourself without the reliance on something from the outside you have to ask yourself why this is so. There is never a void that isn’t created so there’s never a true need to rely on anything from the outside of yourself: until this is seen the void will remain in place…

Puzzle Solving

Through the way we become conditioned, we see life as if it’s a puzzle to solve so it fits into certain spots, and because of this we are constantly working on solving a puzzle…

The issue with having to constantly arrange life as if it were a puzzle is it’s made up, and even if your story is the puzzle is solved, the mind begins a new puzzle almost immediately. Life is continuous, it’s broken up into segments (puzzle pieces) by a mind that’s in a constant state of agitation. If this wasn’t true, you would see the puzzle was already solved so you wouldn’t constantly need to solve it. It isn’t because of anything right or wrong that makes you see things in this way, it’s because the mind has been programmed to do instead of be so it can only do what it’s programmed to do.

The Conditioned Mind sees puzzles all over the place. The shortest line in the supermarket, traffic, diets, to do list, and so on, all this manipulating is strictly done to put another piece of the puzzle in place; which one thinks will make life perfect. Let’s say everyday is a new puzzle, that would mean in sixty years roughly 21,000 puzzles were solved, all for the sole purpose to constantly have life the way you think it should be. After all nobody purposely gets in the longest line at the supermarket, but if you did nothing would really change except for maybe not having to constantly solve a puzzle to make life complete…