Form Attachments

Attachment to form creates a prison that blocks love from being the guiding energy of daily living. And although you may be alive, to be without love is to be without life…

As attachments are formed so is a self created prison formed. How controlling this is determines the degree that your attachments have a hold on you; make no mistake, attachment is attachment regardless of what it is. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences; no matter what’s attached to it keeps you in prison. Something much more subtle than some substance or object is the attachment to your own mind; this is the real prison.

A substance or object can hold you in captivity, but it’s the mind that makes you attach to something. Without the mind telling you something is needed, attachment would be non existent. The subtleness of attachment is literally mind boggling. Take an alarm clock as an example, as soon as the alarm rings, if the snooze button is hit instantly the mind wants the moment to be in some other way. If this mind set isn’t altered to bring about awareness of this, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a mind that’s attached to satisfying form.

This takes on many forms: talking about others, eating habits, pouting or sulking, social status, being miserly (cheap), trying to control situations and people, judging, lust, greed, envy, self righteousness, false pride, and the list goes on, but what all these have in common is they are all external solutions of the Conditioned Mind to fix an internal problem of lack. Until something is done to allow the mind to settle, this will probably go on til the day you die. If this happens you‘ll see how most of your life was never truly experienced in the way that it could have been. This may not seem as devastating as say using alcohol or drugs, but it is because either way life is experienced from a formed attachment and is never truly lived…

False Thoughts

When truth is revealed no longer do you listen to your false thoughts because you understand there’s no reason to believe anything without the facts…

Don’t believe everything you think because your thoughts tell you things that are false. Your false thoughts will tell you the past is real, yet the only place it exists is in the mind. Your false thoughts will tell you to fear, yet the only thing you have to fear is fear itself. False thoughts tell you to hold onto the belief of a self that’s a solid entity, but the form that’s being occupied needs no such attachment to exist as it’s always changing in a constant state of flux. False thoughts will tell you I think therefore I am, but thinking has nothing to do with I am. False thoughts make up a belief that everything desired on the outside is needed, but if none of those desires comes to pass, nothing happens. Even if the desires do get fulfilled, the satisfaction is fleeting at best. Then there’s the false thoughts of the so called ego, this is like the bogeyman under the bed, it’s real until one looks under the bed.

There’s the image in the mirror with a name given for identification purposes. If the name is different we think we are someone else, but that’s only a false thought because the form remains the same. There will be many false thoughts held onto that just aren’t true. Unfortunately, the more they are attached to, the more real they seem. To be free, your false thoughts will have to be exposed. This doesn’t you don’t exist, you just don’t exist in the way your false thoughts tell you. When this truth is revealed, no longer do you listen to your false thoughts because it’s understood, you shouldn’t believe everything you think because most of it is false…

Memory Anomaly

Understanding the anomaly of memory is very important if the chains of suffering are to be broken because it's the attachment to “I“ that wants to remember only what's pleasurable...

The anomaly of how we remember things and constantly use them to change the present is simply that, an anomaly. Although this happens without it being realized, when it is realized it changes the way existence is viewed. The memory of how things truly are gets distorted in a way because they are viewed through the conditioning in place; conditioning that mostly manifests in constantly seeking pleasure. Think of this, when someone dies no one gets up and says the person was mean, what's usually said borders on making the individual a saint; this is the memory anomaly in place. Until this is realized, life is spent constantly seeking making up pleasurable memories; the mind doesn't like unpleasant memories. This is part of the survival instinct engrained in us. Those who remember painful events also use them to find something pleasurable, even if to just push them away; hence this is why one reaches outside themselves for comfort.

Nobody reaches for anything for any reason except to provide comfort, in this comfort seeking there’s so much unconscious suffering. Desiring pleasure and suffering go hand in hand, until this is understood desiring pleasure will continue to cause unconscious suffering. Understanding the anomaly of memory is very important in breaking the chains of bondage because it's the attachment to “I“ that makes one only remember what's pleasurable. Even to the points of its own destruction “I” seeks pleasure, just look in any rehab or detox. Every drug or drink of alcohol taken had the lure of pleasure associated with it or it wouldn't have be taken. Understanding this isn't limited to just those things, this goes for anything that's reached for. The mind defaults to what's familiar and it uses pleasure as its lure. Until this is realized you will continue to use memory to desire pleasure, even to the point of your own destruction…

Directed by Principles

 Just as there are physical principles that direct the universe, there are spiritual principles that direct our lives; make no mistake, there are consequences for not following them...

We are our own judge, we’re not condemned by others as much as we condemn ourselves. By not following certain principles, the price paid is in not being in harmony with life. When we aren't doing things that cultivate love most likely we’re cultivating selfishness; this is a consequence. Selfish is selfish as love is love, there is very little middle ground. This is why when a person is unconscious, there’s much discord and very little harmony because the nature of unconsciousness is selfishness.

When loving principles are followed the flow of life happens without resistance. When the base of life is love life is free flowing; non restricted. Our relation to love is seen through our relationship with life manifesting as the base of our behavior. This is reflected in our relationships with others and the decisions we make. Our life is measured by the principles or lack of what is followed, and our behavior reflects this. If the behavior is self seeking, there aren't many universal or spiritual principles being followed. If the behavior is to love, we’re in harmony with life and with others. This is reflected in the energy that’s given out in the daily choices that are made because universal and spiritual principles are being followed. Do what you may in life, but do not blame anyone for what happens to you and what is happening in the world because it’s each individuals choice what principles are being followed...

Your Own Guidance

We're all products of someone’s guidance so no belief, idea, concept, or view can truly be called your own. These are all derived from some outer guidance so someone else's life is mostly lived…

The view that’s developed over the course of time makes life what it is, but this isn't to say one view is right and another is wrong or that one is better than the other. I'm just stating a fact that we’re mostly a product of someone’s guidance and what view we have in place is only there because of that guidance in our life. Not one single moment that's in the past can be changed so there's no reason to ever give that view a second thought. Giving it a second thought is just a waste of our limited precious time, and unfortunately that's the base of the guidance most people have. The past will always be the past and nothing will ever change it, but we don't have to be guided by it.

There comes a time in every life when you know the only place to find what you've been looking for is within yourself. When there’s awareness of this, what's usually revealed is what's been sought has always been there. This is the inner view that needs to be cultivated if you’re to ever be free of the guidance that was put in place by others. There’s so much that molds and shapes our entire existence and until there’s awareness of this, the view in place will be someone else's. Truly look at this, mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, teachers, friends, tv, radio, and so on, everyone of them had some guidance on our current view; no belief, idea, concept and view can truly be called your own.

The importance of awareness is it allows the breaking free of this conditioned guidance. How you do this is by sitting and allowing a settled mind to become your guidance. This won't happen overnight, but with perseverance the guidance of others will slowly lose its grip and the guidance of the heart (love) will become your new direction. This just so happens to be who you truly are without the guidance of anyone else, and this is the view where you can begin to truly live your own life…

Inner Voice

If you seek what you think is needed to wake up, you’ll probably remain asleep. An awakening is from the Universe, but this will not be known if you’re listening to head noise instead of your inner voice…

We are all a product of the Universe, we are not a product of ourselves. We didn’t call for our creation nor do we call for the time when it ends. Our existence is a product of the Universe and the energy transformed to awaken is from the Universe. This is why we can’t really do anything to transform ourselves. We can only do the necessary practice that allows the heart to open so the Universe can do its thing. This is not our doing, this is a calling from the Universe; we practice because we’re listening to our inner voice from Universe. The reason some practice and some don’t is because the noise in the head doesn’t allow you to listen to the inner voice within. Even though it seems an awakening is from the outside, it can only be heard from the inner voice within.

Through our Conditioned Mind we become trapped in a very self-centered direction. This is also from the Universe, but it doesn’t produce love. Energy always is, it’s just a matter of listening so you can go where you’re directed. We seek because the Universe nudges us, but we’ll only hear when the veil of a Conditioned Mind is removed and our energy is guided by the heart. Spirituality is not magical for a select few who think they‘re special, it’s available to anyone who listens to the inner voice within. The Universe is always calling, but are you listening? If you think you’re listening, are you hearing the true message or are you making up your own message to fulfill some self-centered desire? It takes much quietness to hear the Universe’s call, but the alternative is to listen and follow a made up call which is scary. Why may you ask is it scary? Because people are trapped in fulfilling self-centered desires that prevent listening to their inner voice call…

Closed Mind Energy

As long as there’s closed mind energy in place, it will be the operating energy controlling your life. This operating energy arises as unconsciousness and it doesn’t allow you to see what’s truly going on…

Unless you have an open mind, how things appear isn’t how they actually are. If you truly want to see what’s going on, getting beyond your closed mind will have to happen. If two people are looking at same thing there are usually two different opinions of what is seen. There’s two sides to every story. There’s the view of a closed mind and there’s the view of consciousness; this is the truth. To stop seeing from closed mind energy, you will have to stop labeling what is seen. Stopping the labeling process allows the mind to slow to a point when consciousness takes over. It’s imperative for this to happen if the closed mind energy that’s been formed over the years lessens its grip.

A closed mind is so misunderstood and how this is known is because of the behavior that’s exhibited. 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 creation anyway it’s looked at. When closed mind energy is seen for what it is, it begins to transform in a direction that allows consciousness. As long as there’s a closed mind of this, its energy will remain as the operating energy of your life. This operating energy arises from a closed mind and takes on many forms, but the bottom line is a closed mind doesn’t allow you to see what’s truly going on…

Commitment to Change

People don’t change because the commitment to investigate why you do what you do isn’t given 100%: 50% commitment doesn’t get it done…

The idea of doing what puts you in alignment with love is much different than actually putting it into action. It’s not because it isn’t how you truly want to be, there’s just so much conditioning against you that without a 100% commitment, it‘s difficult to sustain a connection to love for a substantial amount of time. We all have times when it’s easier, but we also have our times when we say screw it and self-seek. Don’t be to hard on yourself, a lifetime of living one way will not change with a few sittings. The key is to remain committed on a practice that allows the self seeking behavior to become less and less and for love to be more reflected in your actions.

Although love is natural, a commitment is needed so there’s alignment with it. Sometimes it will seem like” what’s the use” but understand this is all part of the conditioning, the noise, the story, the unconsciousness, whatever you want to call it. Being constantly committed is a necessity if there’s to be change because the old behavior is so deeply ingrained to let go of its control on its own. Why people don’t change is because the commitment o investigate why you do what you do isn’t given 100%. It‘s impossible to get more out of life than what you commit to putting into it. If you commit 50% that’s what you’ll get and change will be minimum at best…

A Settled View

When there’s awareness of a settled view and you don’t engage in what comes from the unsettled mind, it makes for a view of life most people will never experience…

A view from an unsettled mind is very different than a settled one; the unsettled mind has a much different agenda than being settled. Every conflict known to mankind has been because of the unsettled mind. You cannot have a conflict when a mind is settled. Although a settled view aches at times, it’s where all compassion comes from. This is an understanding from a settled view that the conditioned view can’t grasp. Mind seeing is strictly from the way one is conditioned. A settled view arises from the space of Now. I can tell right away when someone comes from stirring mind view 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.

A settled view doesn’t make you smarter than anyone, all it means is you’ve been granted the vision to see clearly. A settled view is difficult to see from because of all the distractions in place. These distractions keeps you trapped to the reaching of a view from the mind. Reach, reach, reach, a settled view needs no such reaching, it realizes its completeness as it is. When your view is settled you become more of an observer than a reactor, at least that’s been my experience. I had an unsettled based view existence for many years. Even today the old conditioning resurfaces, but because of the awareness there’s less engagement with what comes from the mind. This naturally allows a settled view to arise. When you live from here it makes for a view of life much different than most people will ever experience…

Enticement to Reach

The most important thing to understand about the enticement to reach is the less attachment to “I” there is the less you will be enticed to reach for something you think is needed for satisfaction…

The enticement to reach is so powerful because what’s reached for is actually satisfying; this is why the enticement is so addicting. The only issue with this is because of the impermanent nature of being satisfied. Satisfaction simply will not last, it has no staying power so something will always be needed following the attainment of whatever is reached for. Think about it, with all the things you have been entice to reach for throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the satisfaction now that it brought at that time. Most times, even if the same exact thing is physically repeated it’s usually not as satisfying as the first experience. I used so many things as I was enticed by my reaching conditioning, but it never lasted; the next reach always arose. This went on all the time, reaching for one thing after another and never staying satisfied.

I’ve come to understand this enticement to reach as the main reason people start using and become addicted to things. If needing satisfaction wasn’t sought, nothing would be reached for so there would never be an addiction. Unfortunately, the enticement to reach has its way with people. It’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place since the beginning of human form. I know this enticement to reach is what controlled me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with “I”. Without “I” no one is there to be enticed. Even with this understanding, the enticement to reach doesn’t just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me, the most important thing to understand about this is, the less attachment there is to “I” the less you will be enticed to reach because without “I” there’s no one who needs the next satisfaction…

Holding On Lie

Holding on to anything is a prison, but the thing being held is only the sentence, the prison is the lie the Conditioned Mind creates that tells you holding on is needed to make life different…

The reality of life is impermanence and because of this when there is holding on to anything, there has to be suffering. So suffering is directly related to what one holds on to and how tight the hold is. Impermanence is a natural phenomenon of life and since the nature of it can’t really be changed, the only way for the suffering not to occur is to learn how not to hold on to things. You can still enjoy all that life has to offer, but if true liberation is to be experienced, holding on will have to fall away. I say fall away because many hold on to not holding on and thus stay glued to their suffering. Letting go isn’t really a doing, it’s why many remain trapped to the bondage of self. If true liberation is to be experienced, there will have to be awareness of the conditioned mind holds that are in control. Few have this willingness because the conditioning in place to doesn’t allow it, hence the need to hold on to things constantly rears its ugly head; this causes suffering.

There’s holding on because the conditioning in place is based in a lie. When this lie is let go of that’s when truth is revealed. It’s not a truth that can be explained. The moment it’s explained there’s holding on because it becomes an idea, concept, or belief. This is why in stillness truth is revealed. All I know today and it’s not much, has been revealed to me. To truly stop holding on to the lie, it has to be seen that all holding on is a lie. If this isn’t seen, holding on continues along with its associated suffering. This moment needs no idea, concept, or belief to be. If you can see this, holding on is naturally lessened because right now exists free of its lie, and without the holding on lie there’s simply no reason to make life different…

Deceit

Issues based in deceit can’t be fixed with the same deceit. It’s not that truth has to be known to change this, but the deceit will have to become known if its to cease being in control…

It’s very difficult to explain truth because there’s so many different definitions of it. Instead of trying to prove what truth is, let’s explore where the deceit is. Deceit is something that has no real facts to it. Perceptions aren’t factual, they are usually made up by the perceiver to suit some sort of deceitful belief. I’m often asked if I believe in God, I answer that I believe in what I know which is based in the facts of what I’ve experienced. That’s why I share only what has been experienced. I don’t see the benefit of making up a deceitful story about something to suit a mind made need. In my case I know love is more beneficial than hate so I learn what the deceit is to living my (factual) life so it’s of maximum benefit to myself and to all beings. Truth will be known when deceit is understood.

The biggest deceit in place is that stuff will satisfy you, this is reinforced everyday. It’s a deceit which is at the core of our entire misaligned society. It creates all our issues as a society. Everyone claims to know what truth is, no facts, just their truth. Politicians try to fix problems based in deceit with deceitful solutions. The entire entertainment and sports industry create the deceit of the haves and have nots, which creates separation in our society not unity. There’s also the deceit of social and career status. Deceit after deceit, and what happens to a society when this is its base, it becomes a society of deceitfulness. Not because we want to, and not because we can’t know the truth, but simple because we don’t understand the deceit in place…

Instinctual Reality

An instinctual reality only occurs in the present, self-serving desires disrupt this from being seen. Only a mind that’s settled in the present can understand an instinctual reality…

Sometimes it’s difficult to know what the right thing to do is. I’m not talking about clearly recognizable things, sometimes it isn’t so clear as to what should be done. It’s especially difficult when it involves other people. For myself letting go allows for me to have a more instinctual reality with some of my responses to people. This is all part of the learning curve of letting go. It matters little what the intentions are if what comes out of the mouth isn’t from an instinctual reality.

This learning curve isn’t to be held to strict adherence, it’s more so used to stay open minded to the expanding instinctual reality and not get caught up in a self-serving reality. Instincts have to be at the forefront when others are involved. It’s not always easy to understand where others are coming from so it’s better not to judge and to try and deal with situations from an instinctual reality. This is much easier said than done, but by practicing quietness it gets easier to decipher what the right instinctual action is. We shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves because of the Conditioned Mind, the slow process of awakening has to be accepted if there is to be peace. On the other hand our conditioning is not to be ignored because we won’t learn from it and the same reactions will be repeated over and over again.

Although life may seem mundane at times, it’s only a self-serving reality that makes it so; life can never be mundane. Each moment is new unto itself, and when it’s lived instinctually, it’ll be realized what a gift life truly is. It’ll be understood that what your learning curve affords you is not the mundane life of living in the past or future, but the ability to live in the present, and respond to life from an instinctual reality instead of reacting to it from a self-serving reality; the more this is done the less your reality will be mundane…

Lost in our Story

When there’s a story you need something to provide peace, you’re lost in this story. Until this is understood you’ll remain lost in the story that peace is outside of you…

There will never be peace in your life as long as you’re lost in the story that peace is outside of you. Peace is something that’s already within everyone, but because of the way our minds are conditioned we get lost in the story that peace is something to find. Unfortunately stories are what makes the very thing you’re seeking elusive. Stories are the reason one is constantly reaching for something outside and until these stories are no more, you’ll remain lost in the story that peace is in the next thing reached for. This can’t be stressed enough as these stories have to be seen if you’re to ever experience true peace.

The story of being at peace isn’t peace. What has to happen if peace is to ever be experienced is there has to be an understanding of how stories block your peace. The reason why peace is elusive is because of the inability to just be. When the need to reach for something arises, becoming lost in a story begins; this is a conditioned cycle that’s very difficult to break. Peace isn’t something that can be manufactured so it’s in doing less that peace arises. Many get lost in the story of trying to find peace, but since it’s already within the story associated with finding it needs to be discarded so you can uncover the reason why you’re lost in the story you’re not at peace…

Divided Within

Existence is continuous until one day it’s not. It becomes divided within because of the attachment to self. Without this attachment, the beauty of life unfolds as the divisions within fall away…

The real cause of any issue with life is not with what actually happens, but how we attach a self to rc. Life occurs regardless of the self, butn what attachment does is it makes it divided within by isolating it and making it personal. Life is neutral until it’s attached to, then it becomes an event that’s all about the self. Without self, division within doesn’t happen, life just occurs. I’m not insinuating a self exist or not, all I’m saying is the attachment to self is at the root of all division within, and if you want to be free of this division within, you‘ll have to be free of the attachment to self…