Thought Control

It’s imperative to learn to be aware of your thoughts because if what you do comes from a labeled place, this label produces the bondage of a blind thought which controls you like a puppet on a string…

If there isn’t awareness of your own thoughts to decipher which ones are truly beneficial, hold on because you’ll be taken on the ride called life. Not that life does anything directly to anyone, but thoughts arise and they determine what kind of ride you will be on. Being aware of your thoughts is essential if you’re not to be controlled by them. Thoughts are a natural part of life, they will arise. As far as I know there’s no way of controlling what thought arises. I have found that being aware of them allows for a split second hesitation that can be used to decipher whether or not the thought is beneficial. And remember, attachment to any thought causes suffering no matter how it’s labeled.

The Conditioned Mind is diabolical and unless there’s some awareness of how controlling your thoughts actually are, they will control you as if you were a puppet on a string. So subtle is this control that even if you are doing things that are labeled as loving, the label will eventually control you. And remember bondage is bondage regardless of what label is applied to the thought. This is why the Conditioned Mind is diabolical because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to remain in control. This is also why it’s imperative to learn to be aware of your thoughts because if what you do comes from a labeled place, this label produces the bondage of a blind thought which controls you like a puppet on a string…

Truth Within

When one awakens there’s a shift that opens your heart which allows the truth within to surface. When this occurs where you were once blind you now see…

People think they change when they learn something new, but the essence of what is truly happening is there’s a discovery of what has always been there. It’s not really a change that occurs, it’s a shift from delusional thinking, with the shift being an understanding of the true nature of life starting with your own mind. You cannot know truth if you don’t know yourself, and you cannot know yourself if you don’t know your own mind. This reason why it’s so difficult for the heart to open so you can live differently is because the mind will not settle down without a struggle. It will tell you to do just enough to get by in life as long as it’s pleasurable or it will tell you not to do anything because you’re okay as you are.

Self investigation is not pleasurable especially when it’s first started, that’s why many are hesitant to do it. It’s much easier and pleasurable not to investigate and do what’s familiar, but there are only benefits when an honest self appraisal is done. A step into the unfamiliar will need to be taken so you can get to know the truth of who you are.

The mind defaults naturally to what’s familiar because it’s the conditioning in place. An honest self appraisal allows for truth to be revealed and rise to the surface; this is how truth becomes what‘s familiar. When truth is what’s on the surface what happens is the veil of ignorance is removed and where you were once blind you now see. It’s not a change, it’s a shift that allows truth to be revealed, but you’re only seeing what has always been there…

Blurry Eye View

Although what occurs now happens now, when it’s seen through blurry eyes it’s not seen as it actually happens. You can’t be present for the present until your blurry eyes clear up…

Living from blurry eyed past energy isn’t something that jumps out at you; the view lingers in place waiting for its opportunity. It doesn’t have to be glaring, nor do the blurry eyed energy patterns always manifest as totally destructive action. It’s destructive because it doesn’t allow you to be with what’s occurring right now. It takes you away from truly living your life. You end up living the same life over and over, doing the same thing, getting the same results. Basically it’s as if you’re stuck in a rut which only gets deeper each time the blurry eyed view is grabbed and brought into the present. You can’t be present for the present when the blurry eye energy is being used to live now. Much quietness will be needed to see how the blurry eye view is in control.

The blurry eyed energy patterns are very subtle and are deeply ingrained. Noticing this is the first step in one’s liberation from this energy. This energy is so controlling because it’s brought into the present and blocks the ability to truly see. Not many actually see the moment of what’s actually occurring. Although what occurs now happens now, it’s mostly seen through blurry eyes so one isn’t with what is actually happening now. There’s so much blurry energy and only in awareness of this can the blurry eyes even begin to clear up. Watch the mind and how it constantly uses the blurry eye energy. How you can tell something is blurry is by the label being applied to the present moment because when it’s all said and done, the present moment needs clear eyes to see…

Attached Relations

The attached relation reaching for God is no different than the attached relation reaching for Heroin. Although this reaching will produce different results, the attached relation is the same…

Attached relations to what’s occurring determines the energy you will live by. This is because the attached relations are tied into your emotions, which is what gives them life. It’s never truly about what’s occurring, it’s always the attached relation to it that determines what one will do next. Using the example of food shows how prevalent this is. Food is needed to live, but how about dessert? See how the attached relation to dessert makes the emotion of delight arise. Nothing inherently has any substance to it. If we didn’t have tastebuds our eating habits would be very different and this would be because the attached relation to pleasure wouldn’t arise and manifest in the need to be satisfied. Without tastebuds we would eat when we were hungry, not to say that we don’t now, but I know in my case food and especially dessert is mostly used for the fulfillment of pleasure. I don’t eat food that I don’t like and I definitely only eat dessert for pleasure. The attached relation we have to things determines how strong the grip is.

Look at some of the most glaring labeled addictions in our society and see why many don’t break free from their hold. The attached relation to anything being used as a coping mechanism runs deep. But what’s not understood are the less glaring ones have the same attached relations as the one’s that wreck havoc and even kill. One uses programs to break free from the attached relation to something, only to substitute it for another attached relation in the form of a program. And although the outer results are different, the same bondage to an attached relation remains in place. An attached relation to God is no different than a attached relation to Heroin. Again different outer results, but the same inner bondage exist. Until this is understood the attached relation to whatever thing the Conditioned Mind uses will keep you in bondage to whatever is being used…

Humanly Stuck

Not only is it human to err, but it’s also strictly from being humanly stuck that one attaches to wanting things different which causes one’s own suffering…

If you really want to know what the basic flaw seems to be that keeps one stuck to their own suffering, it’s attaching to our humanness to a fault. It’s not that we aren’t human or that we’ll be able to transcend our humanness, it’s more so to find a way to embrace it, but not be stuck in it. It will always be succumbing to our human side in some way that causes our suffering. It doesn’t have to be attached to, but it will take discipline so the mind settles to see this. It’s always human to want things different and it’s always attaching to the story of being human that causes suffering. This is true regardless of the circumstances.

It’s always the human side that wants something different and it’s the charade of being human that pulls one into suffering. I ordered something a shirt on line and when it was were delivered I tried it on and it didn’t fit. By my first reaction you would have thought I was going to have to go shirtless, but that wasn’t the case. I attached to it and didn’t accept the fact that the shirt didn’t fit. This is what attaching to being human does and when I saw how childish this was, the wanting things different fell away and I was able to simply send the shirt back. You can substitute the shirt with anything and you’ll get the same childish results of suffering. This is all because not only is it human to err, but it’s also strictly from being human that one attaches to wanting things different which in turn causes you to be humanly stuck to your own suffering…

Restricted Choices

Going through life without an understanding of how the mind works makes this existence much more difficult because it restricts the options. Restricting the options, restricts the choices…

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

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

Determined Reactions

Most reactions that occur in life are predetermined and put in place by your own conditioning. So if your life isn’t lived to its fullest potential it’s your own predetermined conditioning that’s blocking it from being so…

Although things appear to be a certain way its not always as it seems. Its difficult to see beyond your own mind when predetermined conditioning is brought into play. So much of what the mind holds in storage is used at particular times and this blocks life from being truly lived. We already have in place the way things are going to be handled. Reactions are formed in this way.

Advertisement is a billion dollar industry because of this. Our presidents have people write speeches using certain words that they know are going to sway people in a certain way. Supermarkets know exactly where to place products. It’s all based on putting things in a certain place so ypur predetermined conditioning makes them more attractive.

This goes on and on because the Conditioned Mind determines it. If you had no previous conditioning none of the above methods would work. But this is not the case so one of the keys to not living a predetermined life is to a develop some way to be in the present moment. The more you’re in the present moment the more you’re with what life has to offers. When this occurs there’s a peace that passes all understanding because the predetermined conditioning that have been put in place are no longer making it appear that things are different than what they are…

Supportive Actions

Reaching is the issue not the thing reached for. Not everything one thinks is healthy and supportive is truly beneficial. It will take a very settled mind to see if what you think is supportive truly is…

Doing what’s supportive for your well being needs to be investigated to see if what you’re doing truly is supportive and not just a story of what you think is supportive. Many people play the lottery to become rich so to become rich becomes your supportive energy. Sex is often used as being supportive as is the spiritual path. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, and also their counter parts (their programs) are used as supportive energy, but as the results of these supportive energies may be different, the prison they keep you in is the same. Working out and healthy eating habits are very supportive, but many attach a story to them and negate their true support. I know many people are vegans and I have no opinion either way, but no where have I ever read that Jesus or the Buddha used this as a supportive part of their practice. All I’m saying is what I’ve found to be truly supportive needs no story nor attachment to certain results.

I can only share my experience and I’ve found reaching for anything in whatever form it takes on, is not true support. The reaching is the issue, not the thing being reached for. To me in the space of just being with what arises in the present moment is true support. Not everything you think is healthy is supportive and truly benefits your life. It will take a very settled mind to see the subtleness of the attachment to things that are deemed heathy and supportive. I say if you are reaching for something, regardless of what it is, it’s not supportive to your well being and this is because the reaching itself is the issue and it’s what keeps you in a mental prison…

Courage Needed

Looking at yourself takes the amount of courage that most people will never possess. But only because the conditioning in place won’t allow it and until life isn’t about you, your conditioning will remain…

Everyday I’m amazed at the things people are ok holding onto with the emphasis totally on satisfying themselves. This is without much consideration for anyone else and it’s strictly from an “I got to get mine” attitude. I know it’s because they know not what they do, but the suffering this causes and how it cements the conditioning in place can be truly disheartening. Notice I said can be disheartening because if you’re truly awake, there’s the understanding that the way things are is the way things are and wanting them different also cements the conditioning in place. I’m writing about this because it’s heart breaking, when you have answers and not many are willing to hear. It’s like having a cure for cancer, but nobody will listen. Without going into specifics, the conditioned unconsciousness runs so deep that people will justify doing all kinds of self destructive behavior without blinking an eye; drugs, alcohol, gambling, porn, rioting, protesting, total defiance for any authority, murder, rape, assault, and robbery and this is only the tip of the Conditioned Mind iceberg. Here is why this is, at least from my experience, it’s much easier because of the way one is conditioned to justify self destructive behavior than to look at yourself. Truly Looking at yourself takes the amount of courage that most people will never possess. But only because the conditioning in place won’t allow it and until life isn’t about you, your conditioning will remain.

I offer to talk to people to possibly assist them in waking up, but all kinds of excuses are made not to connect. I get it, but it doesn’t make it any easier to watch people suffering when there’s a way out. So this means people would rather remain in their suffering instead of going beyond it; that’s the part that’s heart breaking. I don’t say this because I’m a know it all, but I have been released from the grip of my Conditioned Mind to a degree and was provided answers to strictly share my experience with others. And how it is known that I’ve truly broken free from the Conditioned Mind, it’s because life isn’t all about me anymore…

United Mind and Body

The mind and body are the instruments we’re given to use in this mystery called life. If the mind and body aren’t in unity with each other it will make life much more difficult…

If a car is driven without the proper care and maintenance, eventually it will not work properly. It’s the same with if the mind and body aren’t taken care of, they also will eventually not work properly. Whether it’s eating, sleeping, working out, recreational activity and so on, there’s a certain way of doing things that allows both to be in harmony with life. And when there’s harmony with life there’s unity with oneself. This maximizes our ability to reach our natural potential. Nature never lies so the more things are done that are connected to nature the more natural life is. This involves all aspects of our life, garbage in equals garbage out, as love in equals love out. So if the mind and body are taken care of one will naturally be taken care of. At least to the extent that our potential can be maximized however that may be.

Life takes on an entirely different meaning when this occurs because life isn’t being lived from the mode of individuality. It can’t be because love embraces unity, it’s just the way love rolls. There’s no such thing as separation where there’s love. This doesn’t mean the entire world will love you, but the ones who have love in their heart will because they’re connected to the Universal mind and body. A person has no control how others feel about them or acts so don’t take it upon yourself that what others say is true. When there’s unity with your own mind and body, there’s a connection with the Universe because it’s from whence one came. When one is in unity from whence they came, there’s unity with the mind and body that love springs forth from because that’s the way love unites…

Being Aware

There’s so much reaching in our society because there’s so much distracted energy. You can only be the energy that’s in place so just be aware because the distracted self is never free…

There’s seeing and there’s the one who sees. With the one who sees there’s attachment to self. In the seeing alone is where there’s liberation. Even if one says there’s no one who sees, it comes from the self. I don’t profess to understand what life is all about, mostly because it doesn’t matter, but I do have a reasonable understanding of why and what happens to me. It’s mostly because the distractions that distract me from my distractions aren’t prevalent in my life; this allows openness. My manifestation is no different than anyone else’s, the mind distractions in place are. This is the difference in being the one who sees, or just seeing. The one who sees always has the attachment of seer associated with it and this is the cause behind why one suffers. There’s no attachment to just seeing because nothing is needed to see so there’s no association to the one who sees (self) so there’s no suffering; there can’t be because there’s no one there to suffer.

I know it may seem like a play on words, but it isn’t. If there’s awareness of the differences between who sees and just seeing, an understanding that can’t really be explained will arise. It happens on its own. It can’t be forced or attained from a book, although if one is ready “Bam” it will happen. I mentioned the distractions and to me that’s how one becomes ready. I don’t make anything happen to me directly, but without the daily distractions of the world it opens free flowing energy. This is where insight and wisdom come from. Intelligence isn’t wisdom, anyone can read a book and memorize what some one else writes. Wisdom arises from stillness and when there’s distractions in place, it leaves little room for anything but the energy of the distractions. Hence this is why there’s so much reaching in our society because you can only be the energy that’s in place. Awareness aware of awareness, that’s it…

A Lie is Always a Lie

A lie is always a lie. Until the root of the lie is revealed, truth will remain hidden beneath the justification caused by the ignorance of the lie…

A statement is often made “know the truth and it will set you free” but I say knowing the lie will set you free. This is my guide whenever something holds me captive. The fact that there’s some form of captivity confirms something is a lie; if it’s a lie, it can’t be truth. The lie may be justified as it often is because of one’s conditioning. If there’s an attached story to what arises and it’s being held onto, freedom is lost and the lie takes over. Simply put, if there’s no freedom it’s because there’s no truth. Whether this is a method being used, a program, objects, ideas, concepts, beliefs, religions, sex, or whatnot, the moment it becomes a dependency it pretty much guarantees it’s a lie and not truth. Truth just is, it doesn’t need a label, and because it’s never binding, that’s how you will recognize it.

If you want to understand truth, look at the lies that hold you in captivity. Truth is liberation from the lies. Many just substitute one lie with another and remain living the lie; although it is thought to be truth. Whatever holds you captive is a lie so if something has you in its grip and all you do is to exchange one lie (dependency) for another, you are still held captive. Programs do this, I know this to be factual. If you need a program to live your life, your dependent on it as if it was the very thing you have been trying to free yourself from. Dependency is a lie no matter what label it’s given. The lies of the Conditioned Mind are so subtle, truth is dismissed before it’s even investigated. A lie is always a lie. Until the root of the lie is revealed, truth will remain hidden beneath the justification caused by the ignorance of the lie…

It's Never Personal

There are different ways to handle things as they arise in life, but the key to not being controlled by them is to understand it’s not personal…

As life happens, the way those happenings are handled depends on how you relate them to yourself. The most usual way life is handled is by making it so personal that it’s attached to as if what’s happening is directly happening to you. This is very restrictive and creates much suffering because it’s made as if there’s a fault as to why it’s happening. This is also when the would’ve, should’ve, could’ve mind takes over. That there’s a you who things happen to is the conventional way of viewing life. Things do happen, but nothing truly happens to you. Nothing directly happens to you unless there’s a you who makes it personal. I’m not saying ignore what happens, but without the attachment to “I” the things that happen are allowed to be as they are without the mind creating suffering. This is not how most people handle things. The conventional thought is there has to be an emotional tie to what happens, but what’s not understood is you don’t have to suffer. This isn’t seen because of the attachment to a self that only exist in the mind.

The last few years have allowed me to go deeper within to see how suffering is created by holding onto a self that’s been programmed by the conditioning of what is considered normal. If you can’t change what occurred don’t replay it over and over. Replaying it doesn’t change it, but it does cause it to create a Conditioned Mind Pattern that doesn’t allow you to see there really isn’t a you to hold on to. If you don’t think this is true, where is this self that is so adamantly held onto? I will just say this, each day I learn a little more because without the attachment to self what happens happens, it simply doesn’t happen to me. And so to me nothing is personal, but it’s not because it’s being ignore, it’s because there’s no attachment to a self to make it all about me…

Inevitable Change

When you can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom. Today can be the day that change doesn’t hold you back…

Although most change is resisted, the reason why is because it’s not understood that it’s inevitable. If you like cake you wouldn’t want to eat it every single day at every meal. Change is inevitable, but the resistance to it doesn’t have to be. Make this the day that change doesn’t hold you back. See it as the opening of a door that gets you unstuck from the complacency of what’s familiar. Let’s face it nobody really changes unless they’re forced to. The mind loves the familiar, even if the familiar isn’t the most beneficial to your life. I see it all the time in the responses to my articles. All my articles do is provide another way to look at things, but many times they’re just discounted for the view a person has in place. I lived a conditioned existence for many years so I know what I’m talking about. Not many people truly understand their conditioning so when something new is presented, the resistance to it rears its ugly head; as it’s discounted you remain locked in your conditioning.

Change is an inevitable occurrence of life, it happens constantly; consciously and unconsciously. But what’s not grasped is although the mind is conditioned to hold onto the familiar, change is needed to grow. For years I was stuck in familiar mind patterns that didn’t allow change to take place. Even when it looked as though change did happen, it was only on the surface level. Surface change is a society measurement and it’s mostly a facade. Inner change is a transformation and can’t be measured. When one can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom…

What's Seen Ignorance

As long as there’s ignorance in place, this will be the operating energy of your life. This operating energy arises as what’s seen and it doesn’t allow you to see beyond it…

Often how things appear as it’s seen isn’t actually how it is. If you truly want to see what’s going on, getting beneath what is seen will have to happen. If two people are looking at same thing there are usually two different views of what’s seen, but truth is what’s beneath what’s seen. It’s the old adage, there’s two sides to everything and than there’s the truth. To stop attaching to what’s seen you need to stop labeling what is seen. Stopping the labeling process allows the mind to slow to a point where a different view 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 conditioning 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 mind and you will know the mind of others. This is because we are all of the same energy. Creation is the same for everything regardless of how it’s looked at. When the conditioning is seen for what it is, its energy begins to transform in a direction that allows liberation. As long as there is ignorance of this, the energy of ignorance remains as the operating energy of your life. This operating energy arises as what’s seen and takes on many forms. But the bottom line is it’s ignorant conditioning in place and it doesn’t allow you to see beyond it…