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If we are to unite as a society we must start looking at the facts and stop living in a world dedicated to satisfying a self-serving agenda…

The whys behind any action will need to be recognized before they can be changed. If you don’t know why you have stress in your life, or why any other self-serving behavior is done, you will never have the possibility of changing it. Self-serving behavior has a snowball effect to it. It just grows and grows and causes devastation in its path. Hopefully you won’t wait until you are on your death bed to become aware of the self-serving behavior in place and stop the snowball from getting too much momentum and power. The more momentum your self-serving behavior has, the harder it will be to change the behavior. In most cases the behavior is so deeply ingrained that it has become a constant controlling mind pattern. Nothing short of a miracle will dislodge it. You will need the willingness to do the necessary practice to allow this dislodgment. Behavior will not change on its own. If nothing changes, nothing changes.

When you have awareness of this it will be up to you whether you are willing to accept the results of living a self-serving life or not. When you aren’t feeling well mentally, understand it‘s not life’s fault, it’s the result of a decision. Results are a part of life, but whether they are negative or loving will be determined by what you are practicing. If what you are practicing is based in self-serving energy, what is produced will be self-serving results. When that’s the energy life is lived by it will be very difficult to feel well mentally. Practice love-serving behaviors and your results will be of love, and don’t be surprised when you feel well most of, if not all of the time…

Associated Results

When the energy of life is based to self-serve you reap those associated results. You cannot be but what you are, but love energy also produces associated results…

Each of us has our own inner journey to discover the things in ourselves that will make life beneficial to ourselves and others. We all use different things for this and there is no one way to accomplish this; though some ways are more beneficial than others. Obviously when something is done and it brings harm to another person there will be harsher associated results than if the action was based in love; even if you don’t get caught. I’m not one to say God is always watching so God knows, I don’t truly know that. But I do know I cannot hide from myself, and that is the one I have to answer to. I can lie to you, I can even lie to me, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be associated results.

Understanding ourselves is our journey. When we do things that are of a self-serving nature, we along with others pay a price for that. Even if we don’t see the associated result for our self-serving actions, they are there. So many diseases have been linked to these self-serving actions, they just aren’t labeled in that way. Some who suffer from diabetes, cancer, depression, stress, anxiety, just to name a few can be linked to self-serving behavior in some way. This is not a belief, this is a medical fact. When one is of love suffering is at a minimum. It’s very important to develop awareness of this so there’s the possibility of going beyond the self-serving associated results…

Connected Space

Space is all that’s needed for the Universe to connect with the love of your heart. Space is how the energy of love will make you and the entire world different…

If it was possible have some space before every response the world would be so different. Sit with this space and envision it. Conditioned responses lead to most of the problems with people and with life itself. Life and people do their thing and most people respond instantly. The responses can be much more conducive to harmony if there’s some space between the responses and the reactions. It may not always be this way and it isn’t this way all the time, but it’s becoming more and more the way many people react because of this space when something happens; not always, but more than before.

Space happens because of the discipline developed by sitting. What this does is it stops the Conditioned Mind Patterns from its automatic response based in the self serving mind; space allows for the possibility of those patterns to be broken. When this occurs it opens the heart to the truth that sets you free. Self serving reactions will not fall away on their own, it will take much sitting to develop the necessary discipline for space to occur. All it takes is space for not only your existence to become different, but also the entire world. When responses to life are from space, they arise from the energy of love and slowly but surely the world responds with love. This has to occur, it’s the law of love and all it takes is a little space…

I Self Hold

To not be pulled in by something is to not attach to your I Self; therein lies your freedom. The question is how can you become non attached in a world that excels in attachment to I Self…

The world pays people billions of dollars to pull you in and keep you attached to your I Self; it’s called advertisement. They study peoples psychic and know exactly how most people attach to their I Self. I have come to understand this through the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jesus, and many others. The understanding is to see the attachment to the I Self as suffering. Today through the grace of awareness of this there’s a choice for me not to attach to my I Self and hence not suffer. This is what has been revealed to me, but maybe this isn’t for you.

Attachment to the I Self is the base of all suffering, so non attachment is freedom. If this is discounted before it’s investigated that’s on the individual, but understand your attachment to your I Self is your suffering; you alone causes this. You can hold on as tight as you want, but don’t blame anyone for your troubles because they all come from within yourself and it’s you alone who does this. The conditioned I Self determines what you will attach to and how much suffering it will cause you. Hold on tight and you will suffer mightily or let go and be free, this is the choice that each individual has. No one can do or say anything that really changes this, it all comes from within you. So you choose how much you will suffer or how free you will be; it’s totally up to you, determined by how tight you hold onto your I Self…

Conditioning Investigated

Although your conditioning may be in place and it may be true that you don’t know what you don’t know, if this isn’t investigated what you don’t know will be the only thing you know…

When a snake sheds its skin it’s because it is growing. If the conditioned skin doesn’t fall away, growth will not occur. It’s the same with us, just substitute the skin of the snake with our thoughts. Life is a natural process of learning and growing, but the base of growth is dependent on the new that’s replacing the conditioning. For years I drove an old car in constant need of repair just to keep it up and running. This is how many live their life, constantly making adjustments and repairs just to keep it running; not many truly live. It wasn’t until I purchased a new car that it was realized just how broken down the old one was. This goes with the saying “You don’t know what you don’t know” this is also what happened to me when I finally let go of the conditioned thoughts I had in place, I started realizing just how out of sorts my thinking was. This began the process of investigating my conditioning.

Although learning is a natural process of life, learning to grow spiritually is not. It does seem to take some effort even if it’s only the willingness to investigate and head in a different direction. There are many intellects in the world who don’t have a clue as to what it means to live in the space of spiritual growth; they never investigate their conditioning. The mind loves the familiar and will always try to convince you it’s better to stay in that space instead of going in the space of the unknown. So it may be true that you don’t know what you don’t know, but if this isn’t investigated what you don’t know will be the only thing you know. And because nothing new is being allowed in, your conditioning will remain in place and new growth will not occur…

Trapped Mind

A trapped mind won’t quiet (set itself free) on its own regardless of what‘s used. Trying to free a trapped mind actually hinders the quieting because it’s just a mind response that keeps it trapped…

When a trapped mind is in control it runs your life. It doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to get out of the trap. It’s such a trapped world and what makes it so is most people are looking for mind answers when the answer is within the heart. What a trapped mind actually is and how it’s created is by not being aware that your answers are not of the mind. With a mind that’s conditioned to want answers you constantly use the same mind to look for them, hence the trapped mind. This is how the Conditioned Mind trap is set and how it blocks awareness to your heart. It’s a trap created because if you knew your heart had your answers, the need to look for them would be non existent and so would the trapped mind.

Everyone has the ability to consciously be aware of the trapped mind, but it’s not something that’s going to happen on its owns. It’s a beautiful thing that getting out of the trap is in your hands and that it’s totally up to each individual how much freedom there is in your life. A little quiet equates to a little freedom so it’s up to each individual to do what’s necessary to become more aware of the trapped mind. As you become more aware of being trapped, the mind quiets and you’re left with heart presence. If you’re waiting for anything else, you’ll be waiting a very long time and it will not happen while your own mind keeps you trapped…

Circling Thoughts

Nothing from the outside truly controls you regardless of what it is. It’s the circling thoughts attaching to what happens that causes them to control you…

Staying with the flow of what arises in our daily life has immense value in the process of waking up from the sleep of unawareness. What happens if awareness isn’t expanded upon is circling thoughts arise and control you; they become the master and you the slave. Circling thoughts are what causes one to react to life in the way that they do. Nothing from the outside truly controls you either real or made up. It’s the circling thoughts attaching to what happens that causes one to behave in a certain manner. When one awakens, the attachment to circling thoughts lessens and their control lessens.

This is how it is with circling thoughts, fear becomes crippling when it becomes circling and it takes you over. It’s doesn’t mean things won’t scare you, but it’s doesn’t have to be given the energy that turns it into fear. This applies to any circling thought you become attached to. The associated thought becomes circling and there’s no telling what behavior will arise. I guarantee you it’s not going to be a behavior that has love flowing as its base. Thoughts will arise, it’s the way the brain seems to be wired, but our energy doesn’t have to give them more power than they’re worth. We can cry our tears or be fearful of the future. We can dislike that things aren’t going the way we think they should be. The bottom line is it’s only when the thoughts are circling that they’re given the energy to stop the flow of truly living life and cause not only your own suffering, but the suffering of all beings…

Fabricated Problems

Because of the way the mind becomes conditioned, fabricated problems are created so the mind has something to do. And because of these fabrications, problems are constantly created…

The issue with having to constantly solve created problems to arrange life to be a certain way is it’s all fabricated. Even if one makes up a story that life is exactly how it is wanted, the mind begins fabricating a new problem almost immediately. Life is continuous, it’s broken up into segments (fabricated problems) by a mind that’s constantly stirring. If this wasn’t true you would see life as complete and your mind wouldn’t constantly need life to be arranged to your liking. It isn’t because of anything right or wrong that makes the mind fabricate stories, it’s because the mind has been trained to create problems, so in essence it’s only doing what it’s been trained to do.

The Conditioned Mind fabricates problems all the time. Here are some examples, traffic, politics, religion, work, diets, and on an on, all this is strictly done to fabricate another problem; your mind tells you solving it will make life perfect. Let’s say everyday one new problem is fabricated to solve, for me that would mean roughly 23,000 fabricated problems; this is done constantly because the Conditioned Mind needs something to do. After all nobody purposely fabricates a problem just to solve it, or do they…

Attachments View

Attachment is what makes everything permanent. Only when the mind is at ease will one see how attachment causes suffering, and only when this is seen will suffering fall away…

Holding onto a view even in the face of evidence that it’s false is the most binding of all attachments. Basically attachment views occur in a certain order. Believing what is seen, the mental reaction to what is seen, and holding onto what is seen even though evidence proves otherwise. The first two are the ones that occur mostly, and most people learn from these to a large degree, but the third one is where attachment becomes deeply embedded in the subconscious. It grabs hold of you and makes you do all kinds of things. There are many ways that attachments manifest, just look at all the things that are reached for. The attachment here is that things will bring satisfaction, but as soon as it’s attached to it’s gone so the next attachment is needed; this is attachment at its finest.

To me this is how attachments view begins. You think someone is following you, that’s the beginning; it starts with a thought. Now the mind takes over and the mental reaction occurs and the nonsense begins. If the person thought to be following you passes you that attachment will simply fall way. But if you’re in the grip of it, you will think the person passing you is just part of the plan. The attachment will always have to run its course before subsiding. No matter what it is in life, it will pass away, that’s a fact. Attachment makes everything permanent so it can remain in place. Only when the mind is at ease will one see how attachments cause suffering, and only when this is seen will the suffering fall away…

Space of Loneliness

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

The space of loneliness appears to get wider as one ages. It doesn’t really, but 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 and regardless of what exactly the figuring out manifest as it certainly creates lots of distractions. There are periods between the busyness where a person has some idle time and probably feels the space of loneliness. It doesn’t usually last very long because the busyness of trying to figure out life returns. This busyness last most of one’s 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 and it will either be addressed by looking inward or ignored by getting busy again trying to figure out how to fill the loneliness.

Eventually the busyness will end for whatever reason, unfortunately for most people without the busyness the space of loneliness rears its ugly head. Many elderly people struggle to fill this space, but it’s difficult because there just isn’t a lot going on. Kids are grown, retirement, house paid off, more time behind you than what’s left, and the list goes on. I was this way for many years using distraction after distraction. There were very brief periods of not needing to reach, but these periods were far a few in between. That is until twelve years ago when I hit an emotional bottom. 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 my mind settled and thus the “I” needing to reach for something lessened. In the process the space of loneliness disappeared and it was simply because an “I” story of a loneliness wasn’t being created…

Formed Dependency

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

As dependencies are formed, a self created prison is formed. How controlling these are determines the degree that your dependencies have a hold on you; make no mistake, dependency is dependency, regardless of what is used. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences. Bondage is bondage and no matter what’s used it keeps you in prison. I’d like to address something much more subtle than some substance or object and that is the bondage to your own mind. This is the real prison.

A substance or object can hold you in captivity, but it’s the mind that puts you in the place of needing something. Without the mind telling you something is needed, dependency on anything would be non existent. The subtleness of this dependency is literally mind boggling. Take an alarm clock as an example, as soon as the alarm rings, if the snooze button is hit, instantly the mind is making one want the moment to be in some other way. And if this mind set isn’t altered to bring about awareness of this, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a mind that’s been conditioned to satisfy a made up self.

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

Life Events

The difference between learning from each event of life and living it to its highest quality or being stuck in an event where life is the same old same old is breaking free from the lie of “I” or remaining its prisoner…

Life can be seen as individual events, at least this has been my experience and one will have to go through these different events if you’re not to get stuck in the one that’s in place. Not everyone goes beyond the events that are in place, some remain stuck for years, even a life time. Although the events themselves happen naturally, learning and going to the next one does not; the quality of life will be determined by what is learned in a previous and current event. Life is something that happens on its own, but there is a certain responsibility one has in making it of the highest quality. A simple example of this would be when you were in the part of your life when it was time to read, if you didn’t take responsibility to learn this, to say that life would be difficult today would be an understatement; at this stage of your life, you did what was necessary to make it of a higher quality.

As I’ve grown up over the years, I’ve noticed there were many events in my life, but not all provided the highest quality of living because of the things I did which didn’t allow it. The events of life will happen, but what’s learned is where maturity comes from. To me the biggest lesson was learning to expose the lie of “I” because that’s what I found was the biggest hurdle in living the highest quality of life possible. It’s not that I’m now all about helping others, but life isn’t all about me or what I think. Therein lies the difference between learning from each event, moving forward, and being able to live life to its highest quality or being stuck in an event where life is the same old same old…

One Breath Awareness

One breath awareness is all that’s needed for the Universe to connect with the love of your heart. This awareness is how the energy of love will make you and the entire world different…

If it was possible to have awareness of taking one breath before every response, the world would be so different. Sit with this breath awareness and envision it. I know my conditioned responses led to most of the problems I had with people and with life itself. Life and people did their thing and I responded accordingly. Today the responses are much more conducive to harmony because there’s usually breath awareness between my responses and my reactions. It wasn’t always this way and it isn’t this way all the time now, but because of sitting breath awareness is becoming more and more the way of many of my reactions. But like I said not always, but more often than not.

One breath awareness happens because of the discipline developed by sitting. What this does is it stops the Conditioned Mind from automatic responses based on a self-serving mind; breath awareness allows for the possibility of those patterns to be broken. When this occurs it opens the heart to the truth that sets you free. Self-serving reactions will not fall away on their own, it will take much sitting to develop the necessary discipline for breath awareness to occur. All it takes is awareness of one breath for not only your existence to become different, but also the entire world. When responses to life are from this breath awareness they arise from the energy of love and slowly but surely, the world responds with love. This has to occur, it’s the law of love and all it takes is awareness of one breath…

Illusionary Tools

The way of the world is to use the tool of suffering to cope with suffering. This is an illusionary tool that keeps one suffering by attaching to the suffering that causes more suffering…

When one wakes up and sees the illusionary tools in place to cope with situations, it’s freeing, but only to the extent that the illusion is seen. This basically means going against the conventional way that life is viewed from. Although waking up doesn’t make a person special, it does make one seem odd or peculiar because they aren’t in line with the illusionary tools most use to respond to life situations.

It’s only the illusion of attachment that causes one to suffer with any situation. The illusionary tools of the world is to cope with suffering by suffering; it’s believed suffering must cause more suffering. Although the one who wakes up from the sleep of these illusionary tools may be looked upon by others as being peculiar, odd and not caring, the alternative is to attach to the illusionary tools of humanity that suffering has to cause more suffering. Insanity to say the least…

Grasping Thoughts

Attach to the thoughts that arise and your thoughts will control you. To be stuck in the conditioned grasp of your thoughts is to be blind in a world where everything is seen as form…

Be in the world not of your thoughts. Understanding what it means to be controlled by conditioned thoughts is the only way you will ever break free from their conditioned grasp. What is the conditioned grasp? Think about this, is there anything in your life you have done that gnaws at your very being, something you regret either having done or having not done? A deep regret that stays with you and you can’t seem to let go of. Why do you think this is? The thing isn’t happening now, but yet there it is like it happened yesterday. This conditioned grasping takes on many forms, but the common link is although we use different stories to make up our life, we grasp at them for “I” identification purposes. No matter what it is that our Conditioned Mind uses, it’s the same prison for everyone. We get locked into conditioned grasping which actually chokes the life out of us. Not physically, but by keeping us mentally locked in the prison of our thoughts which doesn’t allow us the freedom to experience how life truly is. It’s a prison that tells us our head knows better than our heart.

Never, never, never, hesitate for one second to listen to what your heart tells you. Your heart will never lead you astray; integrity comes from the heart. Never give into the world's pressures, it only offers rewards of emptiness. Most people aren’t satisfied because they grasp at what their thoughts tell them. They put all their eggs in one basket, the basket of grasping, but no matter how full it gets, it’s always empty. We know a lot intellectually, but we know very little when it comes to living from the heart. Until this is understood, we'll be controlled by our conditioned thoughts and will remain a prisoner to our conditioned grasping…