Predictable Results

When the energy of life is based to self-serve you reap those predictable results. You cannot be but what you are, so love and produce those predictable results…

Everyone has their own inner journey to discover the things 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 predictable 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 predictable results, 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 predictable results.

Understanding ourselves is our journey. When we do things that are of a self-serving nature, we along with others pay the predictable price for that. Even if the predictable results aren’t seen from self-serving actions, they are there. So many diseases are linked to self-serving results, they just aren’t labeled in that way. Suffering predictable results 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, the predictable results of suffering are at a minimum. It’s very important to develop awareness of this so there’s the possibility of going beyond the self-serving predictable results…

Consciously Aware

Everyone who is alive is at least semi conscious; this is basically true for all beings. Where humans differ from other species is in the ability to be consciously aware…

A friend shared a story about a ferret he has as a pet. It seemed the ferret actually liked this person. He would hold the ferret and it would fall asleep in his arms. It would lick his hand and take food from him. One day as the ferret was eating out of a bowl, this person took the food away before the ferret was finished. The ferret bit and scratched his hand, so much for liking the individual. The ferret knew his food was being taken away, but it ended there. There was no awareness of who was actually taking the food, his food was being taken away and the ferret 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.

To go beyond this mindset there must be awareness of it. This is where we as humans differ. Other species don’t have this ability to be 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 when something naturally changes. This is key if you’re not going to be drawn into the unconsciousness of what’s changing. Suffering comes from not being consciously aware of being controlled by what’s liked. When there’s awareness of this, one can be conscious of it, but not attach to it, thus one is free. What you like will still be taken away at times, but hopefully you are consciously aware of this and you won’t bite or scratch when it happens…

Old Habit Reality

For many, old habits have way too much control over what is done today. Until this is identified and old habits are let go of, you will continue to be controlled by them as if you were a puppet on a string…

Understanding that living life today in the present as opposed to living it from old habits, is the difference in being at peace or being controlled by conditioning. When you’re living in the present you’re with true reality, not an old habit reality. When there isn’t the present reality, there’s the delusional state of old habits which makes for very little if any peace in your life.

The reality of what’s occurring in the present means if you’re reading this post, that’s reality. There’s nothing else going on beyond what’s happening right now. There may be something going on between your ears, but that’s the created delusional state of old habits (what isn’t). The bottom line is, your old habits are not the reality of what’s occurring in the present.

The mind has been conditioned to think it has to use old habits to create a life that’s better than the one that’s occurring presently; this is what keeps you from truly living life. I’m not sure why this is, but I do know it has to do with influences beyond one’s control. To me what matters is to develop a disciplined method of sitting which allows you to break free of the control of these old habit influences. Control is control so the more you’re controlled by old habits, the less reality there will be. Unless you live in the present reality, and learn how to identify old habits influences, it will be impossible to ever be free because you’ll remain under the spell of your old habits…

Mind Created Lies

There are many lies to what an awakening is, for those awake there’s awareness of these lies. Remember this, the mind that creates lies is the same mind that reinforces the lies…

All lies are a creation of the mind, until there’s awareness of this the lies remain. One of the most important things to realize when it comes to lessening the mind lies is, the mind that creates lies is the same mind that reinforces the lies. Think about how it’s your own mind creating lies, so you’re basically lying to yourself. What’s crazy about this is it’s like there are two minds with different views. This goes on in most lives every single day without realizing it, but don’t be fooled by the lies because even the view that isn’t a lie can create lies; to be awake is to be aware of this.

An awakening isn’t a mystical mind state, it’s simply about becoming aware of the thoughts that are lies, that’s basically it. It’s in this awareness that one naturally stops attaching to the lying thoughts. Being awake doesn’t stop them from arising, but there’s awareness they’re there; the attachment to the lies is seen. Until there’s awareness of this, the mind will continue to create lies and reinforce them. It does this to distract you from the truth. And as long as there are lies without awareness, you’ll continue to be controlled by a mind that holds you in captivity to its lies…

Wanting More

While you’re busy making plans, life happens. If you’re not careful most of what happens will be missed because you’ll be too busy convincing yourself more is wanted…

The only thing that makes a person think something more is wanted to enhance life is their own conditioning. Until this is realized, this conditioning will keep you in the state of wanting more. This state of wanting more is a constant for most, this means most are missing what life truly offers. If a person is alive life will be experienced, but ask yourself is your life being fully lived or are you under the spell of your own Conditioned Mind that makes you want more. Wanting more is the default setting of most minds; unfortunately so much of life is missed because of this. This is a mind agitation that keeps wanting more in place which doesn’t allow any contentment with what’s actually taking place.

Grab more of whatever you think you want, but except for a few brief moments contentment will be fleeting. Sit and visualize having all the riches of the world and see how this really changes your life. It will only be a matter of time before something more is wanted. This is because regardless of what one has or what’s going on, if there isn’t some level of contentment with the way things are, you will constantly convince yourself you want more, and wanting more will always be…

Sense Reliance

Sense reliance creates a prison to a self that blocks love from being the guiding energy of daily living, and although you may be alive, reliance on the senses doesn’t allow you to truly live…

Sense reliance creates a prison to the material world of self. How controlling this is determines the degree that the senses have a hold on you; make no mistake, sense reliance is self-serving reliance regardless of what is used. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences. No matter what’s used sense reliance keeps you in prison. I’d like to address something much more subtle than some substance or object and that is the reliance on your own mind 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 sense reliance. Without the mind telling you sense reliance is needed, it would be non existent. The subtleness of this sense reliance 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 makes the self want the moment to be in some other way. If this mind set isn’t altered to bring about awareness, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a mind that’s been conditioned to satisfy a sense reliance 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 sense reliance 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 you’re 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’s because either way life is experienced from a sense reliance perspective and is never truly lived…

Inner Tension

The inner tension that keeps you from your peace has nothing to do with life. The inner tension is a creation of your own mind that makes you believe you’re not at peace…

There are practical ways to minimize the inner tension that causes one to sabotage their own existence, but it has to be understood that the mind creating the tension can’t undo what it creates. You’ll have to find out why your own mind is telling you tension is needed to cope with life; a mind that is controlled by the conditioning to create inner tension. Your own mind creates all the inner tension you have by choosing to attach to thoughts that give the tension energy; this unconscious conditioning is why inner tension arises. The Conditioned Mind creates this as you do things that are destructive to your own well being. Why this inner tension is developed I’m not sure, but I do know it can be described only as insane because your own mind creates it.

I know now it was my own mind that created inner tension which arose from within myself. Because of the shift that occurred some years ago there‘s now awareness so tension isn’t created the way it was in the past. I sit for the sole purpose to develop discipline which allows the mind to settle. If there isn’t discipline, your conditioning won’t be understood nor will the reason inner tension arises. This will lead you to being led around like a puppet on a string. Life does nothing to you, it’s your own mind that creates your life. Living in a place of tension as opposed to a place of peace will never be different until the conditioning that makes it so is different. All I ever wanted was to be at peace, but it was always elusive because I wasn’t aware it was my own mind that created the inner tension that made peace elusive…

Corrupt Mentality

There’s so much of a corrupt mentality in our society today that it’s almost impossible to break its hold. The reason for this is because the thing being held onto is attached to by the corrupt mentality of “I”…

A corrupt mentality will drag you along unconsciously unless there’s some awareness that it’s happening. To me, the only thing that allows this awareness are your thoughts slowing down enough to where there’s a millisecond of space between them; in this space the pull of a corrupt mentality lessens. The only thing I’ve found that allows this space is being present. It’s very important to understand this because people sit for hours with other intentions and the moment they’re finished, the corrupt mentality returns. Understanding this is beneficial because it allows for a clear vision which keeps the mind open to honesty instead of corruption. If everything stays in the head as corrupt intellect, it will be difficult to break free from the energy of this. The more attachment there is to corrupt energy, the harder it is to pull away.

One example of this is in the Bible, the masses grew and grew as the Pharisees publicly tried Jesus. As more people were pulled into the corrupt mentality to crucify, the energy intensified. If you research some of the conquerors of the past, you will see exactly how the corrupt mentality works. As their reigns widened and their tyranny expanded, the corrupt mentality deepened. There’s so much of this energy in our society right now, and it’s reinforced daily. It’s so hard to break free of it because of the attached corrupt mentality of “I” that keeps it in place. This includes trying to help others if the corrupt mentality is focused on “I” instead of the intuitive love of the heart. Until “I” is addressed, few people will break free from the corrupt energy because the attached mentality won’t allow space between your thoughts as the energy of “I” remains in control…

Internal Source

Nothing external has ever given anyone a true answer. Answers are always provided internally. Add one plus two, where does your answer come from? Know your internal source and all your answers will be provided…

Although we look externally for answers, the source to all our answers is internal. True answers will never be provided from an external source because one doesn’t exist. Our internal source is the Universe of which we were created, so to search for answers externally is the first misstep in the delusional grasping that causes humanity’s suffering. This searching for an external source is why we reach outside for our answers. There is no source externally, that’s why we’re in a constant state of flux. We think answers are outside of ourselves, temporarily it seems as they are, but because there is no true external source our mind agitations return and so does our state of flux. When our true internal source is known, our mind agitations subside along with the state of flux.

You cannot know your true self if you don’t understand the internal source of whence you came. You will still exist, but that existence will not be based in truth. It will be based in the delusion that there’s an external source responsible for existence. Think of this, if there was no Universe you would not exist so how can anything be external from you because everything arises from the internal source. The Universe is the very nature of existence, it’s the only reason we exist. If it’s not internal then it isn’t real because creation itself is internal. The Universe is the source of all creation so creation cannot be from anywhere but the source. The source and creation are one, internal to each other; this is our existence, the internal source of all that is…

Delusional Reality

To expose your created delusions, why they’re being created needs to be revealed. If this understanding doesn’t occur, the delusions will remain which in turn will make your life a delusional reality…

The way the base of thoughts are formulated determines if what’s seen actually occurs in life or if life becomes the delusional reality of the formulated thoughts. Because of the lack of clarity of truth in most lives, this creates two realities occurring at the same. One is what’s actually occurring and the other is the delusional thoughts of what’s occurring. The more unaware you are of this, the more your thoughts use a delusional story of life instead of living a life of what’s actually occurring.

If this is how you’re living, it makes for a very unproductive existence because a delusional life is being lived; when this happens a persons entire existence is one delusional after another. Thoughts are the base of all delusions because without the belief of something (thought) it’s impossible for a delusion to exist. All delusions start with the thought they’re real, but the thought isn’t what’s actually occurring so two realities are happening at the same time. One is delusionally created (the thought) and one just is. The one you live your life by determines if it’s based in what’s actually occurring or if you’re living a delusional life created by the Conditioned Mind. There’s living your given life (what is) or there’s a delusional life. It can be a delusion created by your thoughts or it can be the reality of what is. There are always two realities to choose from, but to expose the delusional one, why it’s created needs to be revealed. If this doesn’t occur the delusion will remain which in turn makes your life a delusional reality…

Eyes Closed View

Accepting everything as it is seems like a very tall order, but the alternative is to not accept it and look at things from an eyes closed view (wanting things different) and in the process cause your own suffering…

Nothing stays the same so it’s not the changes that occur in life that throw you for a loop, it’s the eyes closed view that things will always be a certain way, this is what makes change much more difficult to accept. If everything could be accepted as it is, you would never be thrown for a loop because the eyes closed view that tells you things should remain as they are wouldn’t occur. Accepting everything as it is seems like a very tall order, but the alternative is to not accept it and look at things from an eyes closed view and in the process cause your own suffering…

For one to get beyond their eyes closed view, it has to be understood that it’s your own mind that’s causing it. Life is what’s seen through the way it’s created and it’s created through how it’s viewed. Why a view is considered closed is because of how the mind reacts when changes occur and it isn’t accepted. This view keeps the mind closed to the conditioning that sees things blindly; if this conditioning isn’t changed nor will the eyes closed view change. It’s not that a certain view needs to be implemented, all that’s needed is to be aware of the eyes closed thinking. Awareness is key if there’s to be change because it allows for acceptance, and when the world can be accepted as it is, good, bad, or indifferent, just maybe one will view life without an eyes closed view…

Storied Labels

Every story made to label something limits it to whatever storied label is being applied. Concepts and beliefs are storied labels that limit what the Universe has to offer…

The Universe needs no permission to do what it does. It responds to things out of necessity, and it does so unconditionally; without a story of what label to apply. It exists as it is, adding nothing because it needs nothing; the Universe is self sustaining. It creates, it destroys, it neither loves nor hates in the sense of emotions, what it is doesn’t need a story label. It’s pure energy and it’s from this energy that everything is created. This energy is existence in its purest state. The moment a storied label is applied, it loses its sense of purity.

Humans apply all kinds of storied labels to life, but life doesn’t need them, humans do. The place of non labelled attachments is the only true place of existence; it’s in this place, in the midst of the Universe that our true essence is. It’s a place that is here, there, and everywhere, but not because of a storied labeled. Stillness exists as life. If a storied label is needed, apply it, just understand it limits. Once a storied label is applied it creates resistance. If a storied label is needed, make it to be about the unlimited space of what the Universe puts in front of you. The Universe is within each and every person. It’s where everyone arises from, but it’s a storied label that limits the awareness of what the Universe has to offer…

Holding On Limits

The incessant need to hold onto things limits life. Understanding this allows for the awareness of exactly what’s there instead of the thought of what’s there…

Most of what happens in life is unexplained, but that doesn’t stop the mind from holding onto things. I have found the unexplained is best left alone because an answer wouldn’t really enhance life. As things occur, what’s held onto is associated with existence, but only if they’re allowed to control your life like a master puppeteer. Most people hold onto the incessant need for labels, but understanding something is different because it allows for the awareness of exactly what you’re up against (your own mind). This awareness allows the mind to settle and lessen the need for holding on which isn’t truly needed. Holding onto addiction doesn’t stop one from being an addict, but an understanding of addiction may; as a matter of fact this is exactly what happened to me.

The Universe holds onto nothing in its process so nor do the origin of our thoughts need to be held onto. The understanding of how thoughts are held onto and what behaviors manifest from the holding on is the difference between being at peace with life or struggling with it. Some will disagree with this and it’s their right, but I know by understanding my behavior and how it was based to self-serve. It gave me something tangible to use to see how much control my Conditioned Mind had over me. Past tense is used on purpose because its control is much less today. Holding onto why this occurred doesn’t enhance the ability to be free of the Conditioned Mind, but an understanding of this certainly does. It’s through the discipline of sitting that the mind can settle enough to become aware that holding onto what happens in life will not enhance it in the way understanding your own mind will…

Disguised Hole

The Conditioned Mind creates a lie disguised as a hole, this hole is a lack of love. Until this is realized, one will constantly need to reach for something to try and fill this disguised hole even though it doesn’t truly exist…

For many years I had a disguised hole in me that was created from a lack of love. That’s why I constantly reached for things to fill it; I have since come to understand this. This disguised hole isn’t a true hole 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 hole 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 hole; the truth of this has been revealed to me.

This disguised hole 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 hole 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 reaching is to ever end. When it is understood, the disguised hole 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 hole is seen for the lie that it truly is…

Engulfing Stories

Do what you think you need to do, but any doing is actually an undoing because it keeps the mind in an engulfing story, and as long as the mind is doing the view will never be clear…

It may be better if you did less in your life if what you are doing is putting your mind in an engulfing state; only when the engulfing stories stop will the mind be clear. When the mind is in an engulfing state, it becomes stirred up and it’s very difficult to see what’s really happening. This engulfing can be identified as what you think is needed to make you complete; you see when the mind is settled, the view is clear. When the mind becomes stirred up it becomes engulfed and all kinds of stories are created about what’s needed to make you complete. Reading another book may be used, another 12 step meeting, another person to help, losing another pound, more money, and on an on. So many things are used that cause an engulfed mind; the truth is nothing is needed because you’re as complete as you will ever be right now; in the clarity of a settled mind is completeness.

Engulfing stories are created because of the conditioning that’s in place. Clarity will never be as long as one thinks there is something needed to do that will make you complete. Doing only keeps the engulfed mind from settling; the more one does the more engulfing there is. Do whatever you think you need to do, but understand there will never be clarity until there’s no more engulfing stories. Be the light, be the instrument to spread love, be whatever you want, but this doing is actually an undoing because it keeps the mind in an engulfed state, and as long as engulfing stories are created, the view will never be clear…