Understanding Stillness

Doing never gets it done, everything arises from stillness. A flower doesn’t make itself grow, in the Spring it arises from stillness and in the fall it returns; this occurs from its own stillness…


When the stillness of a flower is seen as life itself and not as the flower, that’s when the flower is truly seen; from here is how you will learn to understand yourself. When you see the stillness of yourself as life itself and not as a person, that’s when you will truly see yourself. When that happens you will begin to understand your life and it will be in understanding your stillness that you will understand the stillness of the flower.


Enjoy your life, but the enjoyment is not in the things of life that is experience, joy is from stillness. Conditioning produces noise, stillness produces joy. That which you seek to enjoy is noise, joy cannot be attained because it’s already there and you cannot attain that which you already possess, but you will only know this in stillness.


Find a place to sit where it’s quiet. Sit and be mindful of each breath, not you breathing in and out, but how each breath occurs on its own; sit with this mindfulness. Watch how many breaths you can count before the mind wanders. I get to about forty five sometimes fifty and no matter how hard I concentrate it wanders. When I started doing this I could count to six. This is one way of developing the discipline to discover your inner stillness. When you understand the noise you will understand the stillness. Just watch the flower, don’t label it, just watch it. The flower never labels itself, through stillness it simply arises. It never consciously does anything, out of the stillness it appears. In stillness is where all of life arise from, because stillness itself is life; just ask the flower…

Here and Now Truth

When you live in the quietness of the Here and Now, it will be realized that even if the so called mystery of life was solved it really wouldn’t change much of what happens…


The mystery of life will always be; answers are looked for that can’t truly be answered. You can make up answers that fit nicely in your conditioned world, but this doesn’t make life any less of a mystery. You may feel better when you do this, but this is only a by product of your Conditioned Mind. I don’t know if it’s possible to ever solve the mystery of life and truthfully I don’t think it matters. It really doesn’t make a difference if it’s known how we evolved or if it’s known what happens when we die; it doesn’t prevent anything from happening. To me it’s more of a benefit to learn how to solve the mystery of living in the Here and Now; only when the mind is quiet will this be done.


In the presence of a quiet mind it’s not that the mystery of life that’s solved, it’s more so the concern of the mystery falls away. In quietness there is no mystery because there is simply quietness. There are so many things in life that will never be understood, but that’s not to say you can’t know truth. Knowing truth sets you free, it doesn’t solve any of life’s mysteries. Truth doesn’t allow you to understand the mystery of life, but what it will allow is for you stop trying to constantly solve it. Once this occurs, you realize that whether the mystery is solved or not it doesn’t really change all that much as far as the truth of the Here and Now is concerned…

Trustung Life

Happiness is a by product of love. It is not something that can be forced to happen, it will only happen when you trust life to produce it as opposed to trying to force it…

You can try and force things to happen in your life, or you can simply trust life. Trusting life produces a much different living arrangement than trying to force things. Instead of the constant tugging, there is a certain ease and peace when you trust. The tugging is produced directly from trying to force things. Trusting produces the opposite, both are within your grasp, it’s a matter of what you truly want in your life; things your way or peace.

You will know what you want by what it is you pay attention to. The things that you pay attention become the base of life. If you always pay attention to wanting the pleasures of life than self serving energy will be your base. If you always pay attention to how can you bring more love into the lives of all beings than that energy will be your base. To be free of the self serving mind is to stop trying to force happiness and trust life to produce it. To cultivate a mind that looks how it can love more produces a life that’s based in trust and when you stop trying to force your happiness, it is than that we will truly be happy because it’s a by product of love not of want…

Focused Attention

Your focused attention determines your existence. If it’s on thoughts of self, you will be selfish. What do you gain if you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from your selfish attention…


The key to mindfulness is turning your focus away from what you are greedy or lusting for and also for what you are distressed about. When your mind gets stuck it needs to become unstuck; what makes it get stuck is your focused attention. This attention is mostly focused in satisfying the self in some way. Pay attention to the sensations of the body, of feeling, mind states, and mental formations. These are a direct path to what is real and what will liberate you from suffering. Liberation from suffering is not pain free, it’s learning to be with the pain when it arises. You cannot hide from reality. You can divert your attention away from it, but then it becomes your master. To no longer have your focus centered on satisfying the self is where the path of being mindful leads to. Break free of the grip that the self has on you.


How you do this is by stopping the focused attention on the self and start turning your attention on what will liberate you from its grip. The self is there, it has been given an identity, it has a name, and so many different roles attached to it, but it creates bondage because of the mere fact of the attachment it has to itself. Liberation is understanding truth of existence, it isn’t in creating a concept of truth or anything else. You can only be free when you are paying attention to what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because of the mastery of the self. Constant vigilance is needed for an understanding of liberation from your self. You are alive so you exist, but it will be your focused attention that determines the extent of the liberation you will experience and that will be the determining factor in your freedom from yourself…

Tools of Peace

If the tools available which allow you access to your own inner peace aren’t used correctly, you will live a life that generates noise and there will be very little real peace in your life…


As a species we think to much and when we think we generate noise. The more you think, the more noise is generated and the less peace there is in your life. The less peace there is in your life, the less peace you will generate to others. True life occurs in the stillness that we generate, yet we live in the exact opposite way. There are many tools out there to change this, but most go unused. You cannot generate peace if don’t know how to. The noise created is the “I” mind not wanting to live in the the present moment. Peace will never be generated creating a concept or belief nor will it occur living in the past or future energy. Peace can only be generated in the Now, and only if the tools that are available are used and used correctly. It’s not magical, it takes much discipline to truly understand yourself and what blocks you from your own peace.


Each individual has the right to be at peace, but very few are because of the Conditioned Mind. Here’s the kicker, if you don’t think this applies to you, this is all part of your conditioned noise. Once you think, you are under the spell of your Conditioned Mind. Live a life that generates noise and noise is what your life will consist of. Use the tools that allow the understanding of what generates noise and practice using them as if your life depends on them and you will become the peace that passes all understanding. It’s not a peace generated by thinking or by making up concepts and beliefs about it, it’s a peace generated by stillness. You can only be still when the tools available are utilized to allow it. Do nothing and nothing will be different or use the tools that are available and see what happens…

At Ease With Yourself

Your actions are the indicator of your true state of being. Beliefs produce actions that come from your head. Your natural state of at ease produces actions that are from your heart…

A spirit led life isn’t based on a belief system, it’s based on what aligns you with Universal Love. Your point of view is not a spiritual principle. A construct or an idea of God isn’t God. Spirituality isn’t something made up. The stilling of all mind formations is the key to a spirit guided life, not a made up belief. Learn to breathe in easy and relaxed and find what is the cause when you lose that ease. This is the only true spiritual principle that’s needed. When you learn this that’s when you will notice what is guiding your life.

If there’s a noise in you car, turning up the radio will not fix it. It needs to be investigated as to what the cause of the noise is. With the identification of the cause of the noise, the car can be repaired and made to run smoothly because it is realigned with its original specs. Find what causes your noise and you will realign with your original specs which is Universal Love.

There isn’t some spot that you will leap into that will bring you to some mystical or magical state. It will take concentration and discipline to get you to a state of ease. Remember when you were learning how to drive a car how nervous you were, but now you don’t even think about it, you get in the car and just drive away. It’s this way with our mind activity. In the beginning because of our conditioning and not living a life conducive to Universal Love, it’s difficult to remain in our place of ease, but the more you align with Universal Love, the more it becomes your natural place to be, but it will take some time and effort for this to occur.

It isn’t your belief system that needs to be revamped, it’s looking at your constructs and revamping the attachment to them so your mind activity which controls your actions, is aligned with Universal Love. This is your choice every moment of everyday. Kowing what takes you from your place of ease and making sure you do what’s necessary to keep you there is the difference in living a life of suffering or living a peaceful life. A peace that isn’t dependent on a made up belief system, but it is contingent on being aligned with the natural state of Universal Love…

Silence Teaches

Only with a silent mind will you understand how to love yourself. Silence is waiting to embrace you, but it is you who has to make the decision that will allow it to teach you…

I share for one reason and that is to show the possibilities that are afforded a person when silence becomes your number one priority. What has transpired over the last few years in my life is a direct result from the silence of Universe Love. Silence is our teacher if we allow it to teach. It will teach us so much more then the limited noisy mind can conjure up.

This is important to understand because anything is possible for anyone who allows the silence of the Universe to become your guiding light; blessing are bestowed upon the silence not the person. Silence is the recipient of the blessings. It is through silence that the love for life can be returned. That is the difference in being guided by Universal Love or being guided by your Conditioned Mind. We are all of love, but the more you truly love yourself the more in harmony you are with the Universe. An emptying of the mind is needed if you are to be guided.

It’s a wonderful experience being a part of life. I’m blessed with being a part of a special day when I shifted, but in reality everyday is special. It’s just a matter of understanding that it isn’t circumstances that makes life special, it’s silence that allows you to see just how special each and everyday is. Live life as it is and allow silence to teach you so you can see just how special it is. If you don’t do this your life will be a result of the noise in your head. It’s heart breaking because this is the base of how the majority of people live their life. Let the silence teach you and you will understand life as few do. Be guided by the love in your heart and that love will take you over, but only if you are silent enough to allow it to happen. Silence is waiting, but it is you who has to be willing to allow it to teach you…

Centered on Love

When love is at the center of what you do with your life, whatever you do will be of love. The ability to love is derived from the same place as hate, what you make your center determines your energy…

You will be tied to the things that you center on in your life and the more centered you make something the more it will be your life’s energy; how you live your life depends on what you center on. Your life is in your hands, its not dependent on some deity in the sky. It’s not dependent on money, social status, job, sexual preference, marital status, or any other status. The only thing that determines how you live your life is what you center on. It’s not so much the importance that is put on the task, but why the tasks is being done. Visualize what you think is important to you, now sit with it as not being so, you will see that regardless of what it is life will go on without it, no matter what it is or how important you think it is.

We all are tied to the things that we think are soooo important. You can do the same task as someone, but the reason why it’s being done makes the same task different, regardless of the task. If the task is from the base of love and that’s what you center on, you will be in alignment with life. If the same task is done, but with the aim of it being centered to satisfy some inner desire, even if the task is successful it will not put you in alignment with life, and soon a new task will be needed to center on. When you center on things that put you in alignment with Universal Love, you will never have the need to recenter because you will already have a center of love as your number one priority. When your life is lived and centered with Universal Love, it’s the most important thing you can do for yourself and more importantly for all beings. When love becomes your center and it becomes the most important thing that you do with your life, whatever you do with your life will be of love and with a center of love nothing else really matters…

Two Realms

You can only be guided by your light when you stop trying to be guided by it and allow it to show itself. It’s not something to possess or attain, it is only revealed when you stop trying to get it…


The so called spiritual realm is the exact opposite of the material realm. In the material realm the more you accomplish as an individual the more successful you’re considered to be by others and the more you possess the more material success becomes the guide of your life. In the spiritual realm individual accomplishments don’t assist in being more spiritual; you can’t possess spirituality. Unlike a material existence, the spiritual existence is not a doing. The more you think you need to do something to be spiritual the less spiritual you are. Spirituality is not something to possess, it can never be attained. In the material realm the more you have, the more you are held in esteem. In the spiritual world the less you have, the more you are held in esteem. Not because of you, but because of the light of Universal Love that you emit to others. You are held in esteem because of the light within, not because of anything possessed.


Those conditioned by the material realm are attracted to possessions. Spiritual people are attracted to light. The light of Universal Love is the only possession in the spiritual realm, but it’s not attained it’s given freely by doing less and becoming a channel to emit the light to others. It isn’t a doing, actually the more you try to do to possess the light, the less it shines. It’s in stillness that the light shines and becomes what your life is guided by. The quieter you become the brighter the light shines and the more attracted others will be to it, but you can only be guided by the light when you stop trying to do and you learn to Just Be…

Clinging Mind

The only way to be free of a clinging mind is to not label things. The labeling process of our mind produces clinging, the letting go process through stillness produces freedom…


Let go and be free or hold on and suffer, those are the choices. Expect things a certain way and when they aren’t in that way, the next step is the reaction to the different results of what is expected. Peace or suffering; it’s one or the other. If we cling to the results that are different than expected, it will create suffering and we ourselves are creating it because we are the ones clinging to the expected results. Disappointment is only unpleasant because of clinging.


When we expect, we label and when label, we cling. We develop a clinging mind. The more we label the more we expect, which is attachment, and the more we will cling. Even if the expectations work out the way we want, we are still clinging, but we don’t notice it as a problem because it’s as wanted. Our clinging mind attaches to everything that is labeled, and it labels everything so we cling to everything, but we don’t notice it because we mostly focus on the things that don’t go our way.


The only way to be free of a clinging mind is to not label things. The labeling process of our mind produces clinging, the letting go process through stillness produces freedom. Non labeling is a choice that needs to be cultivated so the moment to moment expectations don’t cause suffering. Life is one continuous expectation, but because it’s only in the disappointing ones that we think we cling, we are unaware of this moment by moment labeling. When the mind quiets enough to understand this, the labeling process lessens and so does our expectations. The result will be a mind that is free of a clinging and without this clinging affect it is impossible to suffer. This is our choice, just understand the suffering is optional…

Created Nonsense

Your mind creates your nonsense because it has been conditioned to think it’s needed for you to be at peace, but the created nonsense is the precise reason you are not at peace…

What nonsense are you going to create today and associate it with you. You are the creator of it and it can be any nonsense that you want; it’s all created by you. Just understand this one valuable truth, if you don’t create nonsense, you will not shrivel up and disappear, you will just be at peace. Lets say someone brings in cake to work. from there the nonsense you create about cake is nothing more than that, nonsense. Maybe you create nonsense that you love cake and especially chocolate cake. Well after all is said and done, if you don’t create nonsense about cake, it will still exist, it just wont have any control over you because there isn’t created nonsense attached to it.

Eat cake, don’t eat cake, the point of this example is to show how the created nonsense becomes the created attachment. Substitute anything you want with cake, it’s all the same. Created nonsense creates attachment, which in turn creates suffering. When you first wake up, it is then that the nonsense begins, but only because you don’t know how not to create it.

Nonsense is the essence of a Conditioned Mind, whether you believe this or not. Although this isn’t something to believe, it is something to become aware of so you can stop creating your nonsense. Here is the real irony, all of the created nonsense are lies that we tell ourselves so life is better suited to the way we think it should be. They are the delusions of life and we alone create them. We are always the main subject in our nonsense. In one way or another they are about us, but when the nonsense stops you will notice the doorway to your freedom and it has no lock on it. The only lock to your self created prison is your nonsense; it’s your own mind that tells you to create it. This nonsense created by your own mind creates your whole world and it is your nonsense that keeps you in bondage to this delusional world. If you think this isn’t so that’s just more nonsense because if you stop creating your nonsense you will not shrivel up and disappear; no all you will do without created nonsense is be at peace. The reason you are creating nonsense to begin with is to be at peace, but you already are at peace, you just don’t know it because of all the nonsense…

Awakened Moments

Everyone has their awakened moments, but is your mind going to be quiet enough to be aware of it, and if not what are you willing to do so you don’t miss the next one…

There are many awakened moments throughout your life, but they go unnoticed because most of the time there is to much noise going on in our head. One awakened moment in particular for me occurred one morning at 4:00am, my neighbors dog was barking away and it woke me up. My first noisy thought at the time was to go shut the dog up, but because I was sitting daily and developing discipline my squirrel cage mind was more settled than ever before, the next thought I had wasn’t as noisy. I said to myself that’s what dogs do, they bark” so I accepted the barking. The next thing I know is I woke up and it was 8:00 am. I can’t tell you if the dog stopped barking or not, but I do know my awakened moment happened when I woke up as I was aware of it. I realized for the first time ever that I had spent my entire life wanting things to be different and that this was the source of many if not all of the discontentment I ever had in my life. This awakened moment changed my view life forever.

My life changed because no longer could I blame anything outside myself for my discontentment. The veil of ignorance was removed. To me this was truly mind boggling. Years of confusion and frustration fell away as this awakened moment was experienced; this was my moment of truth. That is what an awakened moment is, truth and in truth is freedom. The more life is lived in truth the more freedom there is. Freedom from the ignorance that keeps a person locked in the prison of the Conditioned Mind. This is what an awakened moment does, it allows for acceptance of things as they really are instead of wanting them to be in the way of the make believe world of ignorance, instilled by the Conditioned Mind. So it isn’t a question if you are going to have an awakened moment or not, it’s a question of are you going to be aware of it…

A Segmented Self

Life is one continuous occurrence, it’s broken up into segments because of the attachment to self. Without attachment life still occurs, it just wouldn’t be segmented by your self…

The real cause of any issues you have with what happens in life is not in what actually happens, but how we attach a self to make it a segmented event. As long as you exist in your current form every moment of every day is a life occurrence, what makes it become segmented is how it’s labeled and attached to by a self. The transformation from an occurrence to an segmented event happens instantly because of who is it that’s doing the labeling. If your attached self didn’t label life it would still occur, it just wouldn’t be segmented. It would be one occurrence without a self attaching to it and giving it the transforming energy it needs to go from being an occurrence to a segmented event.

Life occurs regardless of an attached self, what the attachment does is make a segmented event by isolating it and making it personal. Life is neutral until it’s attached to, it then becomes an event that is all about the self. Without a segmented self life just occurs. All I am saying is the attachment to self is at the root of all issues and if you want to be free of issues, you will have to be free of self.

You will have to investigate how this is done, it can’t be done for you. Just understand until you know your self and how it’s at the root of making occurrences events, there will never be the freedom of self and you will always have issues because life will always be broken up into segmented events. Life occurs even when an individual existence ends. It’s when you attach labels which are derived from self that you have issues with a life that occurs regardless if you exist or not. Life isn’t partial to individual existence, only the attachment to self is. Every isolated event only happens because of our attachment to self, without it life simply occurs, it’s just not segmented…

Life: Mysteriously Practical

Life is a mystery, but it is also very practical. Part of its mystery is no one truly knows its meaning. We do the best we can with the tools we have, but the reality of life will always be a mystery…

Each life is a sum of our experiences and the view of those experiences are based on the way we are influenced throughout our life and how those influences become the habitual Conditioned Mind Patterns that are at the core of our reactions. Cosmic forces don’t make us do what we do, it’s our conditioning that does this. Granted I understand the energy aspect of life and how it’s our energy directed that controls a lot of what happens, but the energy is mostly directed by the conditioning. Life is mysterious, but in a practical way. It has so much to do with how our life is lived; the more it’s given the energy of living in the past and future, the more it seems like a struggle.

No one can tell another what life is about, each persons experiences are unique. We can’t deny a person the right to their experiences by saying, they are wrong. Nothing will close the heart from the light of the spirit faster than thinking you have the right answers and nobody else does. What makes it a right answer is only because it’s something that works for you. I know my answers are right for me, but I am not so content that I won’t listen to you. We can share our experiences, but we shouldn’t be arrogant to deny a person the right to their experiences. It would behoove us all to listen more and talk less; it’s the reason we have two ears and one mouth. If you have to prove your way is the right way maybe it isn’t.

True freedom is allowing everything to be as it is and not trying to change it to the way you see it. When you allow things to be as they are and you understand each person is unique unto themselves, you will understand what it takes to be free. You can then use your experiences to assist in directing your energy so freedom can occur for others. Mysterious to say the least, but in a very practical way…

Presented Opportunities

Your center of being is in your heart and what’s in your heart is determined by how life’s presented opportunities are used to either fulfill self satisfying desires or being an instrument of goodness…

When an opportunity presents itself to help a person to possibly reduce some of the suffering that a Conditioned Mind produces, there is an obligation to be a benefit to that person, but it’s that person that has to take advantage in what’s presented if something is to awaken within them. If nothing happens nothing is lost, but what if something clicks and their view of life changes; their gain is the worlds gain.

Understand though you can not give away what you haven’t got, so get it and give it so this world becomes a better place. As long as people are kept in the dark, darkness rules, but with awareness you can be a light. There is no greater reward then to be an instrument for goodness, a light in a world that has the shades drawn. Those shades are what keeps people in their ignorance (darkness). To watch a person change right before your eyes is amazing. I talked to a Doctor the other day talked for twenty minutes, the important thing is she was inquisitive with what has transpired in my life and I could see it in her eyes, that what we talked about made her think. She may or may not pursue looking at what happens in life as presented opportunities, but regardless the seed was planted. Whether it’s cultivated to grow will be determined by what is within her. I did my part, and just maybe a little light was shed and the shade of ignorance was lifted just enough to allow a little light in. To be a seed planter of goodness is so rewarding, but you can only give it if it’s in your heart and you will only be in your heart when life becomes your teacher and you see the opportunities to let go of “I” as life presents them…