Narrow and Restricted View

Your own mind keeps your view narrow and restricted so if at some point the mind doesn’t settle, the narrow and restricted view will remain intact and nothing new will arise.

If you only see through the view of your conditioning, a new view will never be allowed; this doesn’t allow the mind to expand beyond its own created conditioned restrictions. It will take much investigation to see beyond the conditioned view because the conditioning itself is what keeps the view narrow and restricted. If this isn’t understood it won’t be seen and if it’s not seen, there’s no way to go beyond your own created restrictions. Faith, hope, and forgiveness are always topics that stir up mind made controversy because their concepts have been so deeply embedded into the subconscious. You become conditioned by these concepts and until your own mind is understood, going beyond not only these conditioned concepts, but any concept for that matter will be virtually impossible.

There is so much being held onto without really looking into if it’s truly beneficial to your life. If you have a thought that is held onto, I guarantee you it’s not truly beneficial. You may wonder how I can say that since I don’t know you, but I don’t have to know you directly because I know me and as long as I know me, I know you. I may not know what specific conditioning has you in its grip, but it doesn’t matter because the nature of all conditioning is the same and that’s what needs to be understood.

You can only respond to what’s in front of you with the conditioning that’s in place. If you want to go beyond it, take a look and see if it unites or separates. Unity puts you in harmony with everything. Separation puts you in conflict with everything. These are two vastly different views, one binds and one frees. Although it may seem obvious which one does what, it will truly have to be investigated if you are to see how exactly each of these manifest in your life. Life is always what’s in front of you and although things may not always be as they’re wanted, until the old view is let go of, a new view will not be allowed…

Stuck in Misery

If you think you are your thoughts, you will always be stuck in a self created misery because your thoughts will tell you there’s something to fix; that is until you realize you are not your thoughts…


I don’t profess to know how the brain works, but I do know this, for years I suffered from a self inflicted misery until I learned it was my own mind that was creating it; I’m simply writing about my own experience here. Every spring I would be overcome by a mindset of misery and the only way I knew to get out of it was to use some form of distraction, but you don’t really get out of it by a using distraction, all that happens is the focus shifts. Because the Conditioned Mind Patterns that are causing your misery aren’t understood, it always return; I was always stuck in the fixing myself syndrome that plagues so many. This just created distractions that kept me from finding out what was truly going on. I no longer get trapped by this because I’ve discovered what was causing it. This is very important to understand if you want to break the conditioning of misery. This may not be what the so called experts say about it, but I’m giving a first hand account of my experience and what was revealed to me. If you want to keep “fixing it” that’s up to you, but just understand you’ll stay anchored in the Conditioned Mind Patterns that are causing your own misery.


Me writing this was in response to something posted about misery. I was always working on trying to escape being miserable so a lot arose inside me because of this which I tried to fix for forty nine years, that is until the day I realized there was nothing to fix because misery was only a thought and thoughts only become real when they are attached to. The thought of misery may arise as many thoughts do, but when they’re not attached to whatever the thought is never takes hold. If you think you are your thoughts you will always have to fix something because that’s what your thoughts will tell you. When you understand thoughts needn’t be given any energy, there’s no attachment and hence there’s nothing to fix and no self created misery. Think about it, but not too much because you are not your thoughts…

Incompleteness Seeking

You can only do what your conditioning in place allows, but unless you wake up to see what this conditioning is, it will remain in place and incompleteness seeking will be your life’s driving force…


Everything reached for is a coping mechanism that you have been conditioned to use, and although using different things will produce different outcomes, the core of all reaching is the same, it arises from the incompleteness you have of yourself. This incompleteness is what causes one to constantly need to seek, but this incompleteness isn’t real. The Conditioned Mind makes you believe it is and so there is the ensuing behavior to fill this need. The Conditioned Mind says, Hey, you are incomplete and you need to reach for something to fill it and according to what conditioning you have in place determines what you reach for; sit and ponder this.


Until this incompleteness is understood and the diabolical Conditioned Mind is seen for what it truly is, suffering will remain because you will always have a need to reach for something to fulfill the arisen desire for completeness. When this seeking is the driving force of your existence, it will keep the mind in a constant state of agitation. This cannot be seen by a mind that’s locked in a state of incompleteness, only a quiet mind state will be aware of this. The reason why anything is reached for is because one thinks there’s a need for the present moment to be different; this is the great lie of the Conditioned Mind. You can only do what your conditioning in place allows and unless you wake up to see what this conditioning is, it will remain in place and incompleteness seeking will be the driving force of your life…

Imprisoned by Form

When you reach for something because of a mind agitation, you become imprisoned by form. Until you see this, you’ll remain imprisoned as you seek to quiet the mind agitation with the next thing reached for…


You will never find the peace you’re seeking if you’re imprisoned by form which is the seeker of peace. Peace is something that’s already within everyone, but because of the way our minds are conditioned, one gets imprisoned by form which makes you think peace is something outside of you. Unfortunately this imprisonment to form makes the very thing you are seeking your prison. This imprisonment is the reason there’s a need to constantly reach for something from the outside and until this is seen, you will remain imprisoned to a form that thinks peace is in the next thing reached for. Alcohol, gambling, drugs, sex, religion, social status, programs, therapy, self help books, politics, and on and on, this reaching is proof that you’re imprisoned by form. I can’t stress this enough as this imprisonment to form has to be seen if you are to experience true peace in your life.


It’s impossible to fully understanding this with the mind because the mind is the reason why you’re imprisoned by form. When the need to reach for something arises, the imprisonment to form begins. This imprisonment to form is a vicious cycle that’s very difficult to break. Breaking free of form and being at peace isn’t something attained or achieved so it’s in doing less (letting go of “I”) that peace is experienced. To many people get lost (imprisoned) in trying to find peace through the attachment to form, but since peace is something already within you, the imprisonment is a vicious cycle because it becomes about finding what’s already there. This is not easy to see, but it’s why I share so the imprisonment to form can be seen for what it is; the cause of why you reach…

Running in Place

As long as there is seeking there will always be seeking and you will remain as if you are running in place, exerting all kinds of energy, but not really getting anywhere…

What keeps a person stuck as if running in place is seeking and trying to manufacture peace, love, kindness, mindfulness, spirituality, and so on, instead of aligning yourself with the present moment which allows these attributes to arise naturally. This is what keeps the running in place energy active; the energy of this seeking is circular (like a dog chasing its tail) so it’s never going to produce anything that’s going to get you anywhere. You may bounce to a seemingly different place because it’s given a different label, but as long as you think you have to do something to manufacture a certain desired result, running in place will continue regardless of what it’s called, and so you will remain stuck in the circular energy of going no where.

This seeking of desired results makes a person use an an array of things, from sweets, drugs, alcohol, gambling, tv, success, sex, programs, another book, retreats, a path, meditation, and many other things. What these all have in common is they keep you attached to the running in place seeking energy which is attached to by the Conditioned Mind. A true transformation of the spirit cannot be manufactured. Repeat: A true transformation of the spirit cannot be manufactured. This is because seeking energy is the exact energy that blocks the alignment which allows energy to transform. Only when you stop running in place can a transformation or shift occur. As long as there is seeking there will always be seeking and you will remain as if you are running in place, exerting all kinds of energy, but not really getting anywhere…

Simply Looking Down

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

When you’re not at peace, it you who takes you from it. The commercial that tells you to “find you beach” always reminds me if I’m not at peace it’s because I am the one who left the beach. For years I was constantly searching for peace and expect for brief moments peace eluded me. This was so because peace was always contingent on something outside of myself and whatever its form it was always a peace based in what I thought was needed for comfort. There’s no need to list what these were because there are so many; they are the things one reaches for. This reaching comes in many many forms and unless you truly take a step back, the reaching will always be there, but finding peace will never happen.

The lies of the Conditioned Mind will dictate what you will use for peace. Until the conditioning to reach is changed, peace 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. Once this is revealed therein lies your peace. This 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; this is regardless of where they are planted. If you need another place for peace it’s because the need to reach is still in place and it’s blocking you from finding the peace that’s already within you…

Fear Based Opinions

When there’s awareness that your made up stories are your fear based opinions, the fear subsides. This allows for a stillness that is always there, but not often experienced because of your fear based opinions…


Without fear based opinions everyone would view life through the eyes of stillness which by the way are the eyes of peace, but because of fear based opinions this view isn’t seen. The view of fear based opinions are made up by the energy of unconsciousness, this makes everything that happens in your life about your fear based opinions, but it isn’t truly ever about what is seen, matter of fact it‘s not about anything in particular except to the one with the fear based opinion that are held onto.


Fear based opinions are what makes the mind attach to thoughts and those attachments are the cause of the fear associated thoughts that control your life. What is really happening is this, life just happens it’s not personal, it’s not about anything you think it is. It’s not about what’s right or wrong, love, hate, good or bad, it‘s mostly about learning to understand your minds true nature of stillness and not being lead around by your fear based opinions; whatever you make them out to be. When there’s awareness of this you will truly be content; a contentment that has always been there in the space of stillness, but it was probably never experienced because of your fear based opinions not allowing you to see…

Truly a Benefit

Are the tools you have in place truly beneficial to allow you to love yourself unconditionally and thus love all beings, with the key word here being all and not just the one’s you pick…


For many years I did things that I considered beneficial to my well being, but after forty nine years of doing this I found myself at such a low point that I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to rise up. There were no I think I can chants, no positive thinking, no meditation, no loving myself. There was much confusion and despair and the insanity of this is my own developed tools brought me to this place. Now I know not many get to this place of total despair so it’s difficult to understand how low I was, but I will say this, I am fortunate and here’s why. When I was twenty eight years old there were ten of us still hanging in a bar in Newark, all of us used alcohol as a beneficial tool. Out of those ten eight are dead, what’s tragic about this is the tools that each of us thought were beneficial to live were the cause of eight deaths. Think about how insane this is and how often this is repeated today; insane indeed.


When I look back at what I thought were beneficial tools I see nothing but this insanity. I alone although not intentional, caused all my own suffering. Now you may not think this applies to you, but every negative thought you ever had comes from within yourself. It may have been put there by some outer influence, but it was attached to by you because you saw it as beneficial; you gave it the energy of life. I’m not a big negative/positive person, my experience has been more in line with quietness as the most beneficial tool to live by, but it wasn’t always this way. To me the question to ask yourself if you can muster the courage to do so is are you willing to truly face yourself to see if the tools you have in place are truly a benefit to allow you to love yourself unconditionally and thus love all beings, with the key word being all not just the beings you pick…

Nothing is Missing

There’s never anything missing that isn’t created so there is never a true need to rely on anything from the outside of yourself. Until this is seen you will continue the suffering of something missing…

Every time someone reaches for something designed for a specific issue it’s because they believe there’s something missing in them. Same when a person goes to see a therapist, or they reach for another self help book, program, or if any other type of outside help is sought, this is because of the applied label of something’s missing. When this is done all you’re doing is reinforcing the attachment to that label and hence you’re keeping yourself attached that there’s something missing; this exist only because you have labeled it. Read this very carefully because why this label is being applied will be the difference in being complete or remaining entrapped to the something is missing label. Some of the things mentioned do have value if they’re used at certain times in the one’s life, but if they’re being held onto as an end to a means, they lose their value as the needing morphs into something missing and hence suffering.

Not many will see exactly what I’m talking about here, but I’m writing it because it’s what I experienced after many years of trying to fill the something is missing void with things from the outside. I have found the very things that I was using to fill what I thought was missing is what kept me in bondage; regardless of what was being used. Why I thought something was missing is what I needed to find out because it didn’t truly exist and since it didn’t truly exist, why was it there. To me if something from the outside is needed to live life, something isn’t right. If I can’t just be with myself without thinking something is missing, I have to ask myself why this is so. There is never anything missing that isn’t created so there is never a true need to rely on anything from the outside, but until this is seen you will continue to think something is missing and thus create your own suffering…

Here and Now Existence

In the here and now suffering doesn’t exist, this isn’t because life is as it’s wanted, suffering doesn’t exist because in the here and now there just isn’t a need for life to be different than what it is…

Suffering isn’t necessary to live, it has nothing to do with what happens in your life, it has to do with attaching “I” to it. There will be many things that occur in life, how they’re processed through “I” is where the suffering arises from. Unfortunately this “I” processing is at our core, without it the creation that there’s a you who doesn’t like what’s happening never arises. Also without the attached “I” process you wouldn’t need for things to be different so there wouldn’t be a need to try and make them so; after all trying to make life different is how the “I” process exist. Always wanting life different is why so many are in a state of suffering, it has nothing to do with what’s going on out there, it has everything to do what’s going on inside. Nothing can cause suffering unless it’s allowed and it’s only allowed because it’s not known how not to allow it.

Because of the conditioning in place most people will just conform with what society says and what the so called experts have to say. Too much is taken as surface truth without looking to see the underlying truth; this is why the world is in a state of suffering. The hate you have for something or someone is the hate you have for yourself, without a settled mind this will not be seen so this suffering energy will continue to be the controlling energy in place. Hate breeds hate always and it leads to suffering, always. To me suffering isn’t necessary, and in the here and now I have found it doesn’t exist, not because things are as wanted, but because things just don’t need to be different…

 

Life Teaches

Many things in life can be your teacher if you are open enough to allow it, but if there’s constant noise in the space between your ears, nothing will be seen as it truly is…


Nature can teach you much if you’re not all caught up in what’s going on between your ears. I passed a large pond the other day and I was amazed to see about a hundred ducks sitting in the water. They were all perfectly still, their heads tucked away. There wasn’t one duck struggling with trying to be still, there was no teacher duck leading a guided meditation, no chants, or mantras being recited. No duck had on headphones listening to meditative music or positive affirmations, they were all just sitting there in the quietness of the moment. I actually pulled over to observe this further to allow my present moment awareness to be a part of theirs. I was experiencing the peace of their stillness and it was a serenity beyond words; the peace that passes all understanding as stated in the Bible is just that. It only happens when there’s stillness to allow it, this is what the tranquility of this blessed moment gave to me.


There was so much silence in this moment. Nothing of the material world has ever blessed me like this, and I’ve had some beautiful things happen to me. I can see why this silence was being experienced, it’s because for the last few weeks I’ve been using the body more and more to be anchored in the present moment and this has allowed my mind to be much more settled. I’ve seen these ducks in the past, but they never affected me like this. Many things in life can be our teachers when you are open enough to allow it, but if there’s constant noise in the space between one’s ears, nature or anything else for that matter will not be seen as it truly is and nor will the lessons that are being laid out before you…

Fear: Not a Necessity

Fear is not a necessity to live your life, unless that is the story you want to make up. When fear is let go of it loses its grip and love naturally becomes the controller of your life…


Fear is created, love is not so anytime a thought of fear is allowed to fester and take control of you, your ability to give and receive love is compromised. In this state there’s no way we can give or receive love, which is our true nature, because your created fear is blocking it. When we let go of the thoughts that create fear your focus naturally returns to love and fear loses its grip because you aren’t giving it anything to stick to.


Fear is not natural, it’s created by a delusional identity to a fictitious self. A self that sees things through a pair of eyes that wants everything to fit nicely into a created world; fear arises when something threatens that world. The fear is you are going to lose something that you make yourself believe makes your world right. You form beliefs that reinforce this fear and you live by them. Your fears are all self created. Make up the story that there are healthy fears which are needed to live by, but like I said they are created to fit nicely into a made up world. Fear is not a necessity needed to live your life, unless that is the story you want to make up. When this is realized and you stop living life through your created fears, love naturally takes it place and it is what becomes the base of your life, not because it’s created, but because it’s natural…

Beyond Thought

If a person is stuck in a thought based world most likely they’ll be controlled by it. This is a prison that you will only be released from by going beyond your thoughts; into the realm of no mind…


It’s impossible to be conditioned by what isn’t created by your own mind. This means that regardless of what happens it’s your mind that creates the conditioning about it and it comes from within yourself. Lots of things happen throughout the day and each time the conditioning either holds onto it or not. Everyone has the ability to cease causing their own conditioning, it just takes a certain amount of awareness for this to occur; awareness slows down the thought process that runs continuously. This slowing down is the beginning of truth being revealed. Without it the necessary quietness that allows less conditioned attachment will not happen.


If there’s continuous thought and no quiet, all there will be is thought and this will not allow the ability to watch the Conditioned Mind unfold. If this isn’t seen your mind will never slow down and there won’t be any space created between your thoughts. Life will simply be thought based and the result of this will be your on going conditioning. When life slows down you’ll see how it’s your own mind that takes something that happens and puts it into a conditioned category. See this and you can break free of the hold your mind has over you by understanding you are not the mind; you are beyond the thought based conditioning. Thoughts create a view that makes what happens seem real, but it isn’t, it just seems so because of the delusional Conditioned Mind. This will need to be understood if you are to go beyond it and stop your conditioning from being in control. When and if this occurs you will stop creating your conditioning and the next step will be to go beyond your thoughts…

Consciously Aware

If you’re alive, you’re at least somewhat aware and this is basically true for all beings, but where humans differ from other species is in the ability to be consciously aware…

A friend shared a story about a cat he had as a pet once. It seemed the cat actually liked this person, he would hold the cat and it would fall asleep in his arms. It would lick his hand and take food from it. One day as the cat was eating out of a bowl, this person took the food away before the cat was finished, the cat bit and scratched his hand, so much for liking the individual lol. The cat was conscious and also aware his food was being taken away, but it ended there. There was no conscious awareness of who was actually taking the food, his food was being taken away and he didn’t like it. This is how many humans react to situations, they like people as long as they don’t take away what they like.

For one to get beyond this mindset, there must be conscious awareness of it. This is where humans differ. Other species don’t have this ability to be truly consciously aware, if you look around it would seem most humans don’t have this ability either. What will have to transpire at some point in your life for this to change is truly being conscious of being aware; noticing what arises when what is liked is taken away or just naturally changes. This is key if one isn’t going to be drawn into labeling what’s changing. Suffering comes from not being consciously aware of what’s changing, by being controlled by what is liked. When you are consciously aware of what arises there’s simply awareness of it, but not attachment to it; thus you are free. What you like will still be taken away at times, but with being consciously aware maybe you won’t bite or scratch when it happens…

Seeds of Willingness

Reaching your full potential requires never giving in to “I” by understanding you are already in a state of your full potential because you are alive and simply being alive is all there truly is…

Everyone has the potential to break free from the state of unconsciousness, but it’s not something that will just occur. For me I got to a point where there was no other place to look but within. Although I don’t profess to be an expert on this, I know it takes willingness to change deep rooted ideas that have been in place probably since the beginning of time, maybe even before, but nobody is keeping records of this. Breaking these conditioned patterns will take perseverance and the resolve not to give in to “I” and live from the purity of love; there has to be willingness to do so. For me I don’t always do what I want to do because I still at times revert to “I” conditioned patterns, but I never give in because that would mean the suffering that once consumed my very being would return and I’m not ready to allow that to happen.

This is not out of reach, it’s very practical. Change occurs when the conditioning in place changes; you can only reap the potential of the seed planted. The issue is most never get this because the seed planted blocks it from being seen. Stop making up a story about what you think life is about and start living it in the completeness of right now. Reaching your potential doesn’t require knowing more, it doesn’t require being more loving, or getting to a certain place. It does require never giving in to “I” and simply understanding you are already in the state of your full potential because you have manifested into the form that’s being occupied right now, and simply being alive is all there truly is….