No Fact Beliefs

When you can only see and attach to no fact beliefs, therein lies the root to suffering. It’s in letting go of these beliefs that you will see there are many parts to the whole, this reveals the factual emptiness of all things…

When you stay attached to no fact beliefs, life becomes stagnant. Although life is still experienced, it’s seen this way by everyone except those who don’t see life through a belief; this is the state of emptiness which needs no belief. Everything is a part of the whole so nothing is truly what a no fact belief makes it out to be. When you look at a flower and apply the belief the flower is its parts, the stem, roots, and petals, the true nature of the flower is lost. If you can see this with the flower, you can see it with everything, including yourself. Without a belief of you, where is the you? Most don’t even think about the parts that make up this you.

There is much freedom in seeing this because it allows for the factual emptiness of all things to be revealed, and when you see there’s nothing to believe in no matter what, you are free. Another example is you give a form that keeps track of time and call it a watch. There are so many parts to it, which part is truly the watch? No fact beliefs will keep you in ignorance because they will block out seeing the true nature of factual emptiness in all things. With no fact beliefs you can only see and attach to form and therein lies the root to all suffering. It’s in letting go of your no fact beliefs in all forms that you will see there are just parts which reveals the emptiness of all things…

Conditioned Attachments

All attachments are conditioned driven. It matters little to life or the Universe whether those conditioned attachments are fulfilled or not. You can make up a story fulfilling your attachments matter, but that’s only an attachment…

You can have an attachment for things to be a certain way, but to life this doesn’t really matter. Life isn’t a respecter of attachments, it allows things for its betterment. If you’re one of the instruments which are being used in this capacity you’re truly blessed because you’re probably assisting others in a unique way. This doesn’t make you special, but it does allow you to be free of the self-centered attachments that hold most of the world in captivity. Attachments are conditioned driven, it matters little to life or the Universe whether they’re fulfilled or not. You can make up a story fulfilling your attachments matter, but that’s your story not life’s. Fulfill every attachment in your life, at the end of it you will have exactly what you would’ve had if no attachment had been fulfilled.

It always amusing watching a game and a player does something good, it’s always followed up by pointing upward as if something is watching and cares more about that person as opposed to the opposition. What happens when the other team loses, which is inevitable? I’m waiting for the day when a team loses and points downward. All these attachments mean nothing to the Universe, regardless if they seem to work out or not, they are just attachments. Who’s suppose to answer them anyway, God, good luck with that. Things will always work out the way they work out; the Universe (life) doesn’t really care if they do or don’t. Attachments are only held onto because they’re thought to be needed. Because life isn’t a respecter of attachments, suffering occurs because that’s what you’ve been conditioned to attach to…

Peaceful Mind View

When there’s awareness of a peaceful mind and you don’t engage in what comes from a noisy mind, it makes for a view of life few people will ever experience…

A view from a noisy mind is very different than a peaceful one; the noisy mind has a much different agenda than being peaceful. Every conflict known to mankind has been because of a noisy mind. You cannot have a conflict when a mind is peaceful. Although a peaceful view aches at times, it’s where all compassion comes from. This is the understanding from a peaceful view, the noisy (conditioned) view can’t grasp. Mind seeing is strictly from the way one is conditioned. A peaceful view arises from the space of Now. I can tell right away when someone comes from a noisy mind view because there’s attachment with what’s being said. Usually the sentences starts with I, me or it will be said, I see what you’re saying, but.

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

Thoughts of Division

Most people don’t have any idea how much division the Conditioned Mind causes. Until this is realized it’s better to be quiet; when seeing things from quiet there are no thoughts of division…

Watch how thoughts divide as they’re mostly in the context of you, me, them, they, those and of course “I”. It’s not limited to just these, but these are some of the main culprits in the division from each other. The other day I posted an article and someone posted a response saying what was written was incorrect. Although I didn’t appreciate it, there’s a fine line in being with what’s there or allowing there to be division. There’s division on one end which goes without saying, but by me being the one who knows better I have to do what’s necessary to minimize the division; not for the other person, but for myself and humanity as a whole. This may sound grandiose, but it’s not because as energy goes so does the world around you go.

We went round and round with it until it got to a point where lies were being posted so it was better for me to just move on. It’s wasn’t that the person annoyed me, it was more so to stop the division energy that was being put out. Energy makes the world different and it also keeps the world the same. The point of this article is to show how easy it is to attach to something and cause division, and thus suffering. Maybe it’s not so easy to turn the other cheek, but by not attacking back you are the one who remains connected; remember you can’t have a riot with one person. It’s always about the conditioning, never about the person. In this way of viewing things, the energy put out may not seem loving, but at least there’s quiet so it can become loving. Most people don’t have any idea how much division the Conditioned Mind causes. Until this is realized it’s better to be quiet; when seeing things from a place of quiet there are no thoughts of division…

A Fixated Mind

Beyond a fixated mind there’s nothing but space. Why there’s difficulty with this is because life isn’t about what you think it is. In fact it’s about everything you think it isn’t, but it’s not seen because of trying to figure it out with a fixated mind…

Round and round the mind goes and where it stops nobody knows; this is a perfect example of the fixated mind in place for most people. One thought after another, no space, no quietness, just the noise manifesting as fixations. If you could just sit back in the space where the noise subsides, there’s a chance to truly see what Jesus and Buddha spoke of. If you think you have an idea of what life is about I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that’s just a fixation. There are no answers to what life is about, but the more mind based you make your existence, the more you’ll think you have it all figured out. I’m not saying I know what life is about, but I do know what it isn’t about and it has nothing to do with what is seen by the fixated mind. The more fixated you’re by the mind, the less life is experienced. Beyond the mind fixations is the only place where life is truly experienced. You can travel all around the world and make up the story of all the beauty around you, but it’s only a story to provide pleasure and store it as a pleasurable fixation. Beyond the mind fixations no story is needed, no pleasure is needed.

Think about it, your entire life is fixated until one day you no longer exist in your current form. Every fixated experience is taken with you as if they never occurred. They were thought to be needed so you could make sense of your life, but really they mean absolutely nothing because they’re all created from the fixated mind of the senses. Buddha talked about delusion, Jesus spoke of not being of this world, what do you think they were talking about? If you remain trapped to your fixated mind, you’ll remain trapped in your suffering. Even those who think they understand this don’t because it’s not something to understand. Beyond the fixated mind there’s nothing but space and the possibility of truly seeing what life is about. Why there’s difficulty with this is because life isn’t about what you think it is, it’s about everything you think it isn’t, but this isn’t seen because of trying to figure it out with a fixated mind…

Abyss of Loneliness

When the mind settles the need to reach for something lessens. In the process the abyss of loneliness disappears simply because an “I” story of loneliness isn’t being created…

The abyss of loneliness seems to get wider as one ages, but it doesn’t really. What happens is there are just less distractions so “I” takes more of a hold. The natural process of life seems to be to stay busy trying to figure things out. Regardless of what exactly the figuring out is, it certainly creates a lot of distractions. There are periods in between the busyness where a person has some idle time and probably feels the abyss of loneliness, but it doesn’t usually last very long because the busyness of trying to figure out life returns. This busyness last for most of life, but there does come a time that the natural process of being busy lessens. At this stage many people experience a loneliness that hasn’t been noticed before so it will either be addressed by looking inward or one will get busy again trying to figure out how to fill the abyss.

Eventually the busyness will end for whatever reason, but unfortunately for most people without the busyness the abyss of loneliness rears its ugly head. Many elderly people struggle to fill this abyss because there just isn’t a lot going on. Kids are grown, retirement, house paid off, more time behind you than what’s in front, and the list goes on using distraction after distraction. For me, there were very brief periods of not needing to reach, but these periods were far and few in between. That is until sixteen years ago when the abyss engulfed me. I began sitting and looking inward which allowed me to see the distractions of my “I” needing to attach to a story. As I sat, the mind settled and thus needing to reach for something lessened. In the process the abyss of loneliness disappeared and it was simply because an “I” story of loneliness wasn’t created…

Operating Energy

Operating energy determines how you live. If your operating energy is constantly towards yourself, you will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t free from self, you’ll remain operating from a self created prison…

Being free from the prison of self requires an operating energy away from self-serving thoughts. When the mind is operating away from these thoughts, there’s a freedom that allows the mind to become unstuck. What makes it get stuck is operating energy that’s mostly on satisfying self in some way. Focus on the sensation of mind, body, and mental formations helps to alleviate the self-serving prison. This is a direct path to how one becomes free from suffering. You can only be free when the operating energy is on what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because to master this takes constant vigilance. It will be your directed operating energy that determines the extent of freedom and that will be the determining factor how your life is lived.

Freedom from suffering is not pain free, it’s learning to be with the pain that arises. You cannot hide from what’s happening, but you can operate from something that anchors you in the Now. To no longer have your operating energy on self is the path to liberation. How this is done is by simply not focusing on self and operating from what will set you free. The self is there and it has been given a name. It has so many other different labels attached to it, but it’s a prison because of the mere fact of the operating energy of attachment. Freedom occurs when there’s an understanding of the lies of self; not in creating concepts or beliefs. Where your energy is operating from determines how you live. If that energy is constantly focused towards self, you will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from self, you’ll remain stuck in the operating energy of a self created prison…

Attached Thinking

Attached thinking keeps you imprisoned in a world where there’s very little freedom because there’s no room for truth. If you want freedom, the attached thinking will have to go…

The more thinking there is about something, the more you’re attached to that thinking. It’s difficult to experience the openness of something if you’ve already decided how it is. To remain open one needs to limit the attachment to their thinking. This is essential if there is be alignment with the Universe and be free from the thinking that you‘re attached to. Being attached to the thinking that has a hold on you will need to be let go of if there’s to be freedom; this hold is very subtle. Even thinking on whether you like this post or not will keep you attached in the same place. This post can resonate with you without attachment, but thinking seems to make the world go round. That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, but that’s just what I think.

I lived an attached existence that was full of non-beneficial thinking for most of my life, this caused much conflict with people who weren’t attached to the same thinking; wars are started over being attached to different thinking. If you’re really honest with yourself you’ll see that every disagreement you ever had with someone was caused by being attached to a different thinking about something. I’m not saying you shouldn’t stand up for truth, but truly knowing about something and thinking about it is totally different.

There’s a place of no thinking. If it’s not understood, you’ll never become unattached to your thinking and you’ll remain in a merry-go- round existence. When this is the place lived from there’s very little freedom. When you can just be with life as it unfolds and not think it as this or that, you’ll be on the verge of truly experiencing life, thinking free. When you’re not attached thinking, there’s freedom to be with life as it is without the need for a attached thinking that keeps you from knowing the truth…

Loving Experiences

Our human form is the what’s used to experience life so our human form should never be denied. Non attachment to it though is key if one is to live life from loving experiences…

When life begins there aren’t any blocks developed to prevent loving experiences. Slowly though as we grow, blocks are developed by attaching to our human form; this is how we experience life so we should never deny our human form. Non attachment to it is key to living life from loving experiences. The more thought that’s applied to our human form, the less we experience our true essence of love.

It would be easy to say “that’s just the way I am” but no one is just the way they are. We become the way we are by influences and conditioning. It’s very nice to say things like our true essence is to love, but with all the tragic behavior that goes on, it’s probably more accurate to say our true essence is insane.

Everyone goes around forcing their will on whomever they come in contact with and it’s labeled as love; a loving heart never forces anything, it doesn’t need to. This conditioning goes very deep and why this is so is because it’s the foundation of most people’s experience. This is the reason why people reach outside themselves for fulfillment; all to satisfy their human form. Attachment to human form is the only block that prevents loving experiences. Until there’s awareness of this, you will never truly embrace love through your human form. I’m not saying people don’t love, but there’s a lot of selfish attachment in the way most people experience love. Until the mind settles so one embraces their human form and experiences love, the Conditioned Mind will remain in control and living from loving experiences will be fleeting at best. So sit and be still and you just may experience how it’s only in this moment that you can embrace your human form and thus live life from loving experiences…

Divine Guidance

Divine guidance puts you in harmony with life. Understand though it’s not that life does anything to you, but if you’re not guided by the divine it will certainly seem like it does…

Divine guidance is in place to put you in harmony with life and it’s also in place to offer protection against certain behavior. When you’re guided by the divine, its boundaries allow for life to be lived to the fullest. But the mind has to be open and free flowing for guidance from the divine to take place. The heart aligns with the divine, but it’s often missed because the mind comes into play which blocks the awareness of it. The more you’re guided by selfish behaviors, the less chance there is to be guided by the divine. When things are used and abused to satisfy self, this blocks life from being divine. The animal realm is guided naturally, that’s why there’s perfect balance. Unfortunately the human conditioning relies too much on the intellect and not enough on the divine.

Life is guided in one of two ways, either the guidance allows alignment with the divine or not. A quiet mind can see this to a degree and slowly stops doing the things that block the divine from being your guide. As long as you’re alive life will be lived, but in what way determines your actions and consequences. Cheat on your spouse and regardless if you get caught or not you’ll be out of harmony with the divine. So take heed and understand life never does anything to you, but if you‘re not guided by the divine, it will certainly seem like it does…

Everything Passes

Life is dynamic, but sometimes it’s made into a burden as if it’s always going to be this way. This makes life a delusion that what’s happening will never pass, but everything passes…

Making something that’s occurring in the moment as if it’s going to be this way forever is why one gets swept away by a made up burdens. They’re not truly burdens, they just take on the energy they’re given as if what’s occurring right now is always going to be this way. Once the energy of it’s always going to be this way is seen, the tool of “Everything Passes” can be applied. When one is struggling with something the greatest understanding you can have is that it’s your own mind that creates every obstacle to your inner peace regardless of how life unfolds; if this isn’t understood inner peace will never be had.

Everything passes even if what occurs is made permanent by your mind. This goes for everything including life itself so no matter what it is one day it will not be so. Here is one of my favorite examples of this: If you visit a doctor because you’re not feeling well and are told you have a year to live, do you want to die 365 times or once? A mind that‘s settled can see the truth of this and hence the freedom and value of only dying once. Or not and die everyday until the time comes when conditions that support living in this form are no longer met. We are only visitors here regardless of what happens in life and no matter how tight the hold is on something, everything passes…

Inner Unrest

All unrest arises from within yourself; it’s from your own internal mind. Without discipline, the mind will never settle nor will the inner unrest of needing to reach for something externally…

The world is in a state of unrest, but not with each other as you may think, it’s with ourselves. The lack of understanding of your own mind is the cause of all inner unrest; most people haven’t a clue this is the cause of all internal unrest. We lash out at people, have road rage, try to change people, constantly seek to alter the way that we feel because we were never taught how to just be with life as it is, and be with who we are as we are. There would never be a need to have anything or anyone different if you had the ability to just be with life. If you don’t have a certain contentment with the way things are, what makes you think that if things were different there would be contentment; you would still have inner unrest that makes you reach for things externally.

There’s external reaching because you want to alter how you feel. My mind was always in a state of unrest, and because there wasn’t an understanding of the Conditioned Mind, my unrest wasn’t understood. It didn’t matter what happened, by not having the ability to just be, the mind becomes disturbed and inner unrest arises. Nothing causes unrest unless it’s allowed. If something bothers you and it can be changed by all means change it, but it needs to be looked at why there’s unrest to begin with. Even if the thing is changed, without an understanding of your own mind, you will just move onto the next thing which will cause a state of inner unrest to arise once again…

Belief Anchored Mind

When there’s awareness aware of awareness and you don’t give in to what comes from a belief anchored mind, it makes for a view of the heart instead of the head…

A belief anchored mind is very different than what is seen from awareness; the belief centered mind has a different focus than awareness. Everything going on today is because of a belief anchored mind. You cannot have hate when the space of awareness. Although awareness will give in to the world at times, it’s how lessons are learned. This is an understanding from awareness that the conditioned belief anchored mind can’t grasp. The mind sees what it’s conditioned to see. Awareness arises from the space of the present moment.

Awareness doesn’t mean you are better than anyone, what it means is a clear path has been revealed to you. Awareness aware of awareness is difficult to see because of all the distractions in place. These distractions keeps you anchored to the belief that something is needed outside of you. Need, need, need, awareness doesn’t need, it realizes its divinity as it is. When you’re aware of awareness, you become the seer instead of the reactor. I had a belief anchored mind for forty nine years and even today the old beliefs resurface, but because of awareness there’s less attachment to the belief anchored mind; this naturally allows awareness to arise. When you live from awareness it makes for a much different life than living from an anchored belief…

Developed Discipline

Understanding and developing discipline allows for those who were once lost to possibly be found, and those who were once blind to possibly see, but only if there’s developed discipline in place…

If there isn’t some kind of developed discipline in place so your can understand your behavior, it will be difficult to proceed in a direction where there will be any expansion of truth. The first thing to understand is if you even have a practice that develops discipline. I don’t mean the practice of copying another’s way, although there’s nothing wrong with that, but if it’s in place to just keep you busy, it’s not really a practice to develop discipline. Although it is a practice, the discipline for the mind to quiet is what one needs to understand for the continuous expansion of truth. I’m sharing this because this is what has allowed me to be as I am today. There’s no magic to this, developing discipline has to be understood if one is to experience truth results, this is as simple as two plus two equaling four.

Understand your behavior, reactions, attachments, annoyances, and whatnot that it’s the lack of discipline that’s the driving force behind them. This lack of discipline is the driving force that blocks you from expanding beyond the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind. Without discipline in place that allows this to be understood, you might as well not practice at all because it’s just a waste of time and energy. Either do it so it develops discipline or don’t do it at all. You can only be free by understanding what it takes to be free, and only the discipline that puts you in harmony with life allows harmony with life; to me this makes sense. I practiced wrongly (no discipline) for many years and it produced results that weren’t beneficial, but I understand this now and learned from it. Because of this understanding, where I was once lost I’m now found, and where I was once blind I now see, but only because of having a practice that developed discipline…

Focused Energy

The time you’re alive in this form will be occupied by focused energy, what the focus of that energy is determines how your life unfolds and what the output of life will be…

This is very important to see, but then again it’s not so important to see because this isn’t to be made into a story of how you are to live. The focused energy you live by will either be from the heart and one sees this or they don’t; most don’t. When this is the focus, living from the heart naturally becomes the way one lives. Focused energy builds on itself regardless of what it is. To me, this a basic understanding of the “Law of Attraction” I’m not saying this is the way it is, it’s just the understanding that’s been revealed to me. When my energy is focused on stillness what becomes my life’s building blocks are all derived from stillness. This isn’t a doing of mine, it’s a transformation occurring from stillness itself.

What is unfortunate about this is that the opposite is also true, at least this has been my experience. For years my focused energy was based to self-serve and although I mostly got what I wanted, it wasn’t what I was looking for. This is worth repeating: For years my energy was based to self serve and although I mostly got what I wanted, it wasn’t what I was looking for. This self-serving energy also built on itself and it doesn’t take a genius to see why my life was the way it was; my building blocks to self-serve manifested in the only way they could. What focused energy is in place will be what manifests, sorry about this, but there’s no way around it; you can only be what the focus of your energy is.

Sit with this and investigate what the focus of your energy is and see how it builds on itself. Life doesn’t make it what it is, the energy of one’s focus makes life what it is. To a large degree we are all the creators of our own reality and that reality will be what the focus of our energy is; there are exceptions to this, but for the most part this is true. Positive, negative, noisy, quiet, which one of these will build the kind of life you want to live? It’s not up to the outside circumstances that determines this. It’s the focused energy the outside circumstance are given that determines how they are dealt with, how they are built on, and the way future circumstances will be dealt with. You can only build upon the energy that you are focused on and you can only be that energy. The life you build is up to you, you alone are the creator of your reality, for the most part…