Unknown Attachments

When the present moment isn’t needed to be a certain way, that’s when you can truly be in harmony with life. If there’s unknown attachments that need the moment different, suffering follows…

When there’s a discussion about what it means to be free, one needs to be aware of the unknown attachments that are held onto by the mind. There’s little awareness of these so even though a person may have many attachments which their own mind creates, the same mind will tell you there are none. If the mind tells you there are no attachments who can say there are? But regardless if there’s awareness of them, ignorance isn’t bliss. Attachment is the number one deterrent to freedom, and freedom can only be had if it’s known which ones are blindly attached to.

This isn’t to condone if someone has unknowing attachments that harm others, but if this isn’t known there’s no way the person can be any different; one is as free as the awareness to what their known attachments are. It’s the unknown attachments that cause one to behave in ways that aren’t conducive to love; attachments block innate goodness from arising. Attach to nothing and nothing will be blocked. This is when true harmony with existence will be; this is where nothing is needed, wanted or desired. It’s where life just is with an awareness that nothing added or attached to will make it any different. When life’s moments aren’t needed to be a certain way, this is the point that one will truly be in harmony with life because the unknown attachments fall away…

Spiritual Perspective

Formed concepts keep you in a conditioned prison. This blocks out seeing in the stillness of non-judgement that there’s no lock on your prison cell, there’s only the spiritual perspective that non-judgement reveals…

A spiritual perspective can only be seen when it’s viewed from non-judgement; judgements do nothing to enhance life. Life happens without judgements, actually judgements limit the awareness of your spiritual perspective because it makes life conceptual; in your formed concepts are your limits. This is how it is with most things that exist in life, they don’t need to be judged. In the case of life itself, it gets all it needs from the Universe. It doesn’t think about how it can enhance its own spiritual perspective, this is a natural process. It’s like this with everything, but it’s only seen once conceptual living begins to slow. Judgements don’t enhance anything, there’s usefulness in categorizing things, but this doesn’t enhance whatever’s being judged.

This is why it’s said “In stillness all truth is revealed” because when the mind is free of conceptual judgements there’s an understanding of things that are very difficult to explain with words. It’s the reason my response to people is “It is seen as it is seen” because no matter how much one tries to convince someone to see what they see, it’s almost impossible; almost. Because of the conditioning in place people have a hard time with someone possibly knowing more than them, so they close down and miss the spiritual perspective of what’s really happening. As with all of life you will know truth when it‘s seen there’s existence without needing to judge. Our formed concepts keep us in a conditioned prison cell. This blocks out seeing that in the stillness of non-judgement there’s no lock on the cell, there’s only the spiritual perspective that non-judgement reveals…

Love Aligned Aspirations

When aspirations are aligned with love, this opens the heart to loving all beings. Not because it’s wanted, but because this is the way love rolls when aspirations are aligned with love…

Having love aligned aspirations are worth more than all the books combined on what it means to be spiritual. Why this is so is because your aligned aspirations are yours and the content of any book is someone else’s. Someone else’s idea of you will never be you, no matter if their way is copied exactly. This is why many remain in the struggle because they’re trying to be someone else’s idea of who they should be. You can use books, methods, and whatnot as a tool, but the deep seated aspirations of why you do what you do will need to be reflected upon to see if the results of your efforts are aligned with love. Not the story of love, but the love that arises not from effort, but from one’s inner aspired alignment. This is where effort is meaningless if it’s not aligned with love. Only aligned aspirations with love will result in meaning.

There are as many books as there are people practicing, but everyone who reads a book and practices doesn’t necessarily wake up. This is because the aspirations aren’t of the necessary energy that allows the alignment to a loving heart. True, aspirations need to be seen if there is to be harmony with all beings. This doesn’t mean a person won’t harm you or animals and insects won’t bite you, but it’s less likely you will put yourself in that type of situations with having the aspirations of a loving heart. In the space of stillness one learns to see their true aspirations and in the process have them aligned with love. When this occurs one will love all beings, not because it’s wanted, but because this is the way love rolls when one’s aspirations are aligned with love…

Created Tug-of-War

Life is a happening not a doing. If it’s made into something to do, there will always be the agitation of an inner tug-of-war. In the space of not doing there’s peace because the inner tug-of-war is nonexistent…

It may seem as though life creates a tug-of-war so lessons are learned, but the tug-of-war is inner. Life doesn’t create a tug-of-war, that’s not its nature, life is just life. Things happen because of certain laws and conditions producing certain result. This is life just being life, it’s never personal. There’s inner space in every person that you can anchor in when it seems like life creates a tug-of-war, but this isn’t life, its just the agitated story the Conditioned Mind creates; a story of an inner tug-of-war.

When you can stay anchored you‘ll stop creating your own tug-of-war. This is regardless of what happens in life, unless you make it about life doing something to you. Life does nothing to no one. It’s each individual alone from the way they‘re conditioned that makes life seem as though there’s an inner tug-of-war. This occurs because without an anchor everything that happens in life is made into a burden of something to do. But understand, whatever goes on between your ears about what you think you have to do, that is an inner tug-of-war; it’s something you create from within yourself. Don’t blame life for the inability of not staying anchored and being left unprotected. Find your anchor space so you are planted and stay there as much as possible. The more you stay anchored the fewer stories there will be in your life, and the less it will seem like there’s an inner tug-of-war…

Disguised Lack

The Conditioned Mind creates a lie disguised as lack; this lie is disguised as a lack of love. This lack will constantly need to be fed even though it doesn’t truly exist…

For many years I had a disguised lack in me that was created from what I thought was a lack of love. That’s why I constantly reached for things to fill it; I have since come to understand this. This disguised lack isn’t a true lack at all, it’s emptiness; this emptiness is the essence of love. It’s where life truly happens when one is busy making other plans. By not understanding this, I spent most of my life trying to fill a disguised lack with whatever I could get my hands on. This is an endless list as to what can be used, so each individual has to investigate for themselves what that is. It’s ironic though because now much of my life is spent in the space that for so long was disguised as a lack; the truth of this has been revealed to me.

This disguised lack is the reason why someone reaches for anything and wants life to be different. If this was understood for what it truly was, humanity would be much different because contentment would be the way of the world. The lack is a disguised lie of the Conditioned Mind and it keeps one constantly needing the present moment to be different so it keeps you reaching to fill it. This will need to be understood if the lack induced reaching is to ever end. When it is understood, the disguised lack transforms to love because the present moment doesn’t need to be different. When the present moment doesn’t need to be different, life reveals its true essence which doesn’t ever need to be filled with anything because the disguised lack is seen for the lie that it truly is…

An Instinctive Reality

An instinctive 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 instinctive 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 instinctive 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 instinctive reality.

This learning curve isn’t to be held to strict adherence, it’s more so used to stay open minded to the expanding instinctive 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 instinctive reality. This is much easier said than done, but by practicing quietness it gets easier to decipher what the right instinctive 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 instinctively, 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 instinctive reality instead of reacting to it from a self-serving reality; the more this is done the less your realty will be mundane…

Marvel of Each Moment

The marvel of life is in the newness of each moment. This marvel isn’t observed by most because of the view developed by the Conditioned Mind, but this doesn’t mean the marvel of each moment isn’t there…

Our delusions come in many forms and they’re all used to reinforce the delusion of “I”. The way the mind has been conditioned makes us perceive life as if we’re on a merry-go-round; you can’t get off it until it’s realized you‘re on it. Think about it, look and see how time is used and how fast it goes by. The days of the week are used like this, along with the work week. There are so many things used that keep us on the merry-go-round ; look and see what it is that keeps you on the merry-go-round of the Conditioned Mind.

Our life becomes one task after another and we basically do the same things over and over. Our delusion is this is the way it has to be, but this isn’t so, it doesn’t have to be this way. Every moments marvel of everyday is different unto itself. You may make it the same because of the Conditioned Mind, but it’s impossible for any moment to be duplicated. Once it’s in the past it can never be repeated. 

The marvel of each moment can only be understood by a mind that is quiet enough to be aware of it. The burdened delusions are a result of conditioned thinking. To get off this merry-go-round you must be free of conditioned thinking, and to be free of conditioned thinking, the marvel of each moment must be understood. Nothing done yesterday or even one second ago has anything to do with right now unless it’s made so. Enjoy the marvel of life by living each moment unto itself. Or not and carry around the burden of past moments and stay on the merry-go-round; you can get off anytime you want, but that is up to you…

Truth Awareness

What occurs when one awakens is there’s awareness where blindness gives way to truth; this is truth awareness. With this awareness you no longer have a blind view, it’s now based in truth…

People think they change when they learn something new, but the essence of what is truly happening is there’s awareness of the truth that has always been there. It’s not really a change that occurs, it’s awareness of delusional blindness, with an understanding of truth. You cannot know truth if you don’t know your blindness and you cannot know your blindness if you don’t know have awareness of truth. The reason why it’s so difficult for this truth awareness to occur is because the mind will not settle down to see it. Your mind will tell you what you’re looking at is truth, but that’s a blinded lie…

Self investigation isn’t easy especially when it’s first started, that’s why so many are hesitant to do it. It’s much easier to live in blindness and not investigate it, but there are only benefits when a truthful and honest self appraisal are done. A step into the unfamiliar will need to be taken so you can develop awareness of your blindness. 

The mind defaults naturally to the conditioned blindness because it’s what’s been taught, but a truthful self appraisal allows for awareness of truth to rise to the surface; this is how awareness of truth becomes known. When awareness of truth is taught, what happens is the veil of blindness is removed so where you were once blind you now see. It’s not a change, it’s awareness of truth that has always been there and is now seen…

Love is the Difference

Anyone can be a difference maker, but only if it’s known love is the difference. A true difference maker knows in their heart that love is the life energy that makes a difference…

Everyone possesses the inner resolve to look at their life and change it, but it will not change on its own. If you’re waiting for some deity to change it, it will probably not happen. I look at my life today and see what I can do to be in cooperation with love so it puts me in harmony with the energy that makes a difference. When this is done the direction of life is love based and the decisions made aren’t self-serving.

Love is the energy that makes a difference so with practice life will be more love-centered. Being love centered is so much more beneficial than being self-centered. I want to stress that this is not a magical path for a select few, it’s open to anyone; it just takes practice and discipline not to be controlled by the Conditioned Mind. We all have our own journey in life and we will find the path we think is best. How about this, what if you choose a path that makes a difference that’s best for others, wouldn’t that be different; this is the difference that needs to occur if our world is to be different…

An Applied Description

Life doesn’t apply a description to itself, we apply what we think is the appropriate description to what occurs. Without a description life would still occur, but not as it’s described…

A true understanding of your own mind is the only way that you’ll ever understand life. It’s the only way to truly see the beauty of a sunrise, or feel the breeze of a crisp fall day. What do you see when there are ducks swimming in a pond or a star filled sky? If you just see what’s on the surface there’s a great sadness because what’s seen beyond that cannot truly be put into words. It can be described, but that’s not what is truly seen. Does the sunrise describe itself? Does the breeze know it’s blowing? How about the ducks, are they aware of what they’re doing in the pond and the stars, so many stars, do they know what their function is in all of this?

Without one single description everything would still be. Without the described conditioned mind life still is; it doesn’t need a description to be. If you died right now, life as YOU know it would be over, but understand life would go on. Dying is simply a part of life, it’s just the way it is; dying is as natural as birth so in death life just continues as if you never were; death doesn’t affect life one bit. Life doesn’t describe you, you describe life. Understand yourself so you can understand life, but as stated earlier not in the form of a description, but by allowing life to do what it does and seeing what is truly going on beyond the description process of the Conditioned Mind. To be or not to be? That’s your question, life doesn’t care either way…

Light of Letting Go

Our inner light shines to the degree of letting go that allows loving energy to be our guide. The more one lets go the brighter the light, and the brighter the light, the more it will be seen…

I know for many years I wandered aimlessly through life controlled by a Conditioned Mind that led me around like a puppet on a string. My entire existence was based in a self-serving mind and until this changed nothing was going to change. Our society is out of control because of this self-serving mind.

Until a person understands how conditioned and controlled they are, and that it’s their own mind that makes this happen, nothing will change regardless of what is done to try and help a person. I am not sure if anything can be done to instill this change in a person, but we must try. Although it has to come from within the individual, we must plant the seeds or there won’t even be the chance for someone to change.

I can love the person by understanding their conditioning is not them. This may not change them, but at least I won’t be pulled into their conditioned energy; I could write another book on this pull alone. Watch very closely how subtle the Conditioned Mind is. I know for me it’s not my responsibility to change anyone, but I do have an obligation because of the insight that has been bestowed upon me, but I do know I can only change myself. When I change, that is how others change by allowing loving energy to be my guide. All I can do is be willing to keep looking within to expand the light of letting go…

Clear Mind State

When a person awakens, a clear mind state is provided which allows a truthful view of your actions. With this clear mind state you become aware if your actions are truly beneficial…

Having a clear mind state allows for the ability to decipher the immediate effects of your actions and your current view. A clear mind state doesn’t allow a delusional mind state to arise. In seeing delusion for what it is and its controlling characteristics, you just may be able to pause for a millisecond. If this isn’t seen, these characteristics will continue their delusional mind control.

Observe the mind state of delusion and its polar opposites, truth, generosity, love, and wisdom; these are mind states most people fluctuate between. With a clear mind state you see how your actions and the associated consequences are linked. What happens first is you can decipher the mind state associated with the action, and second it’s seen if the associated action is beneficial. It’s very easy to see rage and its association with the mind state of anger. It doesn’t take much intelligence to see how this action isn’t beneficial to anyone. Without awareness of this, one remains trapped in the mind state of rage and hence the associated actions. Intelligence has no bearing on this whatsoever.

It also works this way with the action of giving. Giving with no attached expectation is an action associated with the mind state of generosity. You can definitely see how this action benefits everyone; to me this is what an awakening is. One isn’t rendered white as snow because of becoming awake. No one among us can cast the first stone, but by the mind settling your view becomes clear and you become aware of your actions and the associated mind state of those actions. It can then be seen that your clear actions are based in truth and are a benefit not only to yourself, but to all beings…

Comfort Zone Existence

Look down at your feet. Regardless of where they’re planted this is your comfort zone. If it isn’t it’s because the need to reach is in place and it’s blocking you from finding your comfort zone within…

When all of a sudden you’re not at peace, what is it that takes you from it? When my mind gets squirrelly and the thought arises to look down at my feet, it reminds to return to my comfort zone within. For years I was constantly searching for my comfort zone outside myself and expect for a few brief moments, my comfort zone eluded me for most of my life. Why this was so was because my comfort zone was always contingent on something on the outside and whatever its form, it was always comfort based in what I thought was needed to provide it. There’s no need to list what these comfort zones relied on because there are so many; they are the things reached for. These comfort zones come in many forms and unless you truly take a step back to see this, the reaching will always be there, but finding your comfort zone will never happen.

The lies of the Conditioned Mind will dictate what is needed to reach your comfort zone. Until the conditioning to reach is changed, your comfort zone will continue to be sought and never be found. The only way this will change is by going inward to discover why there’s a need to reach for a comfort zone that’s within. Once this is revealed, therein lies your comfort zone. Your comfort zone isn’t from the thought realm, it comes from the still small voice within that tells you it doesn’t matter where you are or what’s happening, all you have to do is look down at your feet and regardless of where they’re planted this is your comfort zone. If you need something else it’s because the need to reach is still in place and it’s blocking you from finding the comfort zone within…

Love Based Existence

Love flows as behavior and can be measured in the way people are treated. It’s difficult, maybe even impossible to act selfishly or self-serving when you have a love based existence…

Although there was love all around me growing up I never understood it. I didn’t know how to love myself or others. I would always behave in ways that was destructive to me and to those around me. Some of this was learned and some of it just seemed like it was from within myself. The problem with this is if I didn’t act it ways that showed love to myself there wasn’t any way I was going to show love to others. Unfortunately without love as the base of life, it makes it very difficult to live a life that’s meaningful.

It’s often said that love is the true nature of life, but that doesn’t mean it will be the base of every life. Look at what some people are doing today. Ask the victims family if love is their true nature. Most people have a certain degree of selfishness in them, but only a few have it to the degree that it manifest as evil. I was very selfish which caused most of the decisions I made to satisfy myself. But it’s not this way today because I learned the valuable lesson of what it means to not only love myself, but to love my neighbor as well; I truly don’t want to hurt anyone today. Love flows as behavior and it can be measured by the way people are treated. It’s hard to act selfishly or self-serving if love is the base of your existence…

The Need For More

When there’s a need for more to attain satisfaction, it has to be addressed or you‘ll remain in the grip of needing more and you will always have to satisfy the inner need for more…

What’s missed by most people is the understanding that the need for more is the same regardless of what’s needed. The needing itself is all the same and make no mistake when you need more you’re in prison. There are so many prisons, cannabis, ayahuasca, alcohol, a Hersey chocolate kiss, tv, love, politics, God, or whatever; the need for more is what should be focused on. Nobody just needs more of something, a need arises so let’s go and get more of whatever. This is where the misunderstanding occurs because one thinks needing ayahuasca is different than the need for alcohol. The true nature of the need for more isn’t identified so you remain the same even though the things being used are different. It’s easier to justify when there’s a need to help others than the need for more alcohol, but it’s still to fill a need for more. It was revealed to me that the need for more was the cause of all my problems because self-centeredness is the need for more supportive energy.

You may think it’s crazy how the need for more God or ayahuasca is the same as the need for more love, but it is because it all arises from the inability to truly be present. If there’s a need for more, it will be reinforced daily; if this isn’t understood you’ll remain in a need for more prison. Understanding this is difficult and it’s why I don’t push to develop a program or I won’t become a life coach; to me it’s all associated with the need for more nonsense. I will point anyone to look within to find their own inner beauty; the only thing needed is to learn to live with what’s here now. This is what should be pointed to, but because the need for more isn’t understood you remain its prisoner…