Doing Nothing

Without awareness of the mind becoming stirred up in the absence of something to do, the Conditioned Mind will create story after story just to do something…

The most difficult thing I have ever done in my life is to learn how to do nothing in spite of the conditioning in place telling me to do. To not give in to the stirred up mind that tells me to do this, do that, reach for this or reach for that is so difficult because of the lack of discipline to do nothing and also the lack of understanding of why it’s so difficult to do nothing. Even with discipline and this understanding, it’s difficult because of all the outer influences and inner conditioning. To do nothing is not something many master. I’m not talking about sitting in meditation or taking a nap, I mean being wide awake without having to do something. For forty nine years this wasn’t noticed by me because I was never still long enough to be aware my stirred up mind. I like so many was a doer; a slave to my Conditioned Mind. 

For some this doing doesn’t seem like much of an issue because the doings aren’t noticeably destructive, but make no mistake a doing is a doing and one is a slave to doing regardless how productive or subtle it may seem. Without awareness of the mind becoming stirred up in the absence of something to do, the Conditioned Mind creates story after story just to do; the stories will be based in whatever conditioning you have in place. You can only do what the conditioning in place dictates and without the stirred up mind being noticed, the conditioning is usually based in doing something for selfish reasons. Even if one wants to save the world, who says the world needs saving. Not doing allows for one to truly be an instrument of love by simply being, but this will only occur if you notice you don’t have to do…

Imaginary Void

The Conditioned Mind creates a lie seen as an imaginary void, this void is an imaginary lack of love. Until this is noticed one will constantly need to reach for something to try and fill an imaginary void that doesn’t truly exist…

For many years I had an imaginary void that was created from a lack of understanding that love was within me. That’s why I constantly reached outside myself for things, I have since come to understand that love is within. This imaginary void isn’t a true void 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 an imaginary void 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 most of my life is spent in the space that for so long was seen as an imaginary void; the truth of this has been revealed to me.

This imaginary void is the reason why anyone reaches for anything or 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 void is an imaginary lie of the Conditioned Mind that keeps one constantly needing the present moment to be different; it keeps one reaching to fill it. This will need to be understood if the reaching is to ever end. When it’s understood, the imaginary void 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 imaginary void is seen for the lie that it is…

Lack of Common Sense

There’s so much lack of common sense in our society today that it’s almost impossible to break its hold. The reason for this is because the things followed are attached to by the lack of common sense of “I”…

The lack of common sense 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 lack of common sense 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 lack of common sense returns. Understanding this is beneficial because it allows for a clear vision which keeps the mind open to lead instead of follow. If everything stays in the head as intellect, it will be difficult to break free from the energy of this. The more attachment there is to thinking that lacks common sense, 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 energy that lacked common sense to crucify, the lack of common sense energy intensified. If you research some of the conquerors of the past, you will see exactly how this lack of common sense works. As their reigns widened and their tyranny expanded, the lack of common sense 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 because of the attached lack of common sense of “I” that keeps it in place. This even includes many trying to help others if the focus is on “I” instead of the intuitive love of the heart. Until “I” is addressed, few people will ever truly break free from the lack of common sense energy because the attached mentality won’t allow space between your thoughts as the energy of “I” remains in control…

Heart Opportunities

Your center of being is in your heart and what’s in your heart is determined by how opportunities are used to either fulfill self serving desires or being an instrument of goodness that comes from the heart…

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

Understand this, you cannot give away what you don’t have, so get it and give it so the world becomes a better place. As long as people are kept in the dark of a self serving mind, darkness rules, but when there’s awareness of the heart you become a light. There is no greater reward than to be an instrument for goodness, a light in a world that has the shades pulled down. Those shades are what keeps people in their ignorance (darkness). To watch a person change right before your eyes is amazing, but the opportunity will only present if your center of being is of the heart…

Your Own Energy

We’re all products of someone else’s energy so no belief, idea, concept, or view can truly be called our own. These are all derived from some outer energy so someone else’s life is mostly lived…

The view that’s developed over the course of time makes life what it is, but this isn’t to say one is right and another is wrong or that one is better than the other. I’m just stating a fact that we’re mostly a product of someone else’s energy and what view we have in place is only there because of that energy in our life. Not one single moment that’s in the past can be changed so there’s no reason to ever give someone else’s view a second thought. Giving it a second thought is just a waste of our limited precious time, unfortunately that’s the base of the energy most people have. The past will always be the past and nothing will ever change it, but we don’t have to be controlled by it.

There comes a time in every life when you know the only place to find what you’ve been looking for is within yourself. When there’s awareness of this, what’s usually revealed is what’s been sought has always been there. This is the inner view that needs to be cultivated if you’re to ever be free of the energy that was put in place by others. There’s so much energy that molds and shapes our entire existence, until there’s awareness of this, the view in place will be someone else’s. Truly look at this, mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, teachers, friends, tv, radio, and so on, everyone of them had some energy directed on our current view; no belief, idea, concept and view can truly be called our own.

The importance of awareness is it allows the breaking free of this conditioned energy. How you do this is by sitting and allowing a settled mind to become your energy. This won’t happen overnight, but with perseverance the energy of others will slowly lose its grip and the energy of the heart (love) will become your new view. This just so happens to be who you truly are without the energy of anyone else; this is the energy that allow you to begin to truly live your own life…

Addictive Reaching

Don’t let addictive reaching keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive reaching (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s addictively reached for…

If you’re always addictively reaching for something it’s because you don’t think what you have is enough; if you don’t think you have enough, there will always be something to addictively reach for. Addictive reaching isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one reaches addictively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is addictively reached for only matters to the degree in how the thing affects your life. The addiction to drink alcohol in access has consequences much different than the addiction to go to a program to stop using it. But the addictions core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of addictive reaching lull you into unconsciousness because all reaching leads to bondage in one form or another, and as stated this includes all addictions.

You might say that’s not true, an addiction to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly in the present is the only place the peace of not needing to addictively have things different is experienced. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, where’s the benefit. I say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you will find it’s not providing the benefits you thought it would; shortly afterwards more gold will be addictively reached for. Investigate this and see how addictions arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the addictive reaching of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…

Love Portal

The Conditioned Mind is grounded in hate, this is why most people don’t see the love portal. The love portal is always there, but it needs to be noticed so one can turn towards it and allow it to transform…

Love has a portal with transforming properties, that’s why when one sees the love portal, they’re transformed. Look at a baby, it begins innocent, it has love potential, but it’s still only an infant. You can nurture it, but without a source of a love portal, the transformation from infant to a loving human being will not occur. This transforming love portal is the source of most of life, there are exceptions to this rule as with deep mental issues, but for the most part the love portal transforms. Go into a room full of hate and turn on the love portal, there’s an instant transformation of the room. The room comes alive, the energy in the room intensifies. Without the love portal the room still exists, but its vibrance is hidden.

When one wakes up to experience this hidden vibrance, it’s the love portal that transforms. You can be in full of hate your entire life, but once there’s exposure to a love portal the hate dissipates. It may return somewhat because of one’s conditioning, but it will never be the deep hatred that it once was. It can’t because there will always be some love. This love portal reveals truth, (one’s internal energy of love) and it’s impossible to completely turn it off. As stated before it will turn off only because of one’s unconscious conditioning, but this love portal is always on beneath the conditioning because love is the source of our existence and the true essence of who we are. The Conditioned Mind is grounded in hate and the world is the way it is because not enough people see the love portal. The love portal is always there, it just needs to be noticed so one can turn towards it and allow it to transform…

Humility of Silence

What unites and draws humanity together is the humility of silence. Because of the humility of this space others are attracted to it. It’s the one place where there’s unity simply because there’s humility of silence…

It’s very important to be grounded in the humility of silence so people know there’s a place to turn to. Many people search for answers in my post and they’re expected to find them. I don’t mind this because of what has been revealed to me; I’m grateful for this humility. Everyone needs a place where they know they can go for humility from the unconscious world. It does matter where you go for this. If you go to a place that’s used as a distraction it may feel like humility, but it won’t be. If you get lost in something menial, the day will go by simply because time waits for no one, but if you’re spending the same day in the state of awareness you will become grounded in the humility of silence and people will turn to you.

Don’t be concerned with what others think about you, just be grounded in what you know as silenced humility and let no one take that away. Be grounded in the humility of silence in a world that’s mostly based in noise and this will allow others to also be grounded which is needed for humility to occur. The unity that draws you to someone is the silenced humility that becomes a part of humanity. Life is an open experience and if you’re not learning from it, you most likely have your mind made up already what you think it’s about. When you truly see these made up stories aren’t needed they fall away; this falling away allows silenced humility to arise. When you’re in this space others are attracted to it. It’s the one place where there’s unity of all humanity and it’s simply because there’s humility of silence…

Non-beneficial View

If you can develop some awareness of inner stillness, your non-beneficial view will have less control as your mind agitations subside; without these agitations you will understand truth intuitively…

If you’re always seeing life from a non-beneficial view, what is seen will be accepted accordingly and what’s truly going on will not be noticed. Although with a non-beneficial view life still goes on, but it’s very limited to the point of being delusional; I say this because it’s how I lived for forty nine years and it caused my life to be a constant struggle. The constant struggle was controlled by a non-beneficial view, although this wasn’t understood at the time. A non-beneficial view is one where there‘s constant reaching, the reaching is caused by the mind agitations that aren’t seen. This is why someone will reach for something without giving it much thought regardless if it’s beneficial or not. In that moment the non-beneficial conditioning declares it beneficial, but this is a big fat lie.

The non-beneficial view will only be noticed when you wake up and see the constant mind agitations. You will have to be able to just be for the agitations to subside; you will not see the true essence of life if the view is agitated. This non-beneficial view is strictly mind based. Hence the reason it’s not conducive to your well being is because there is so much conditioning that causes the mind to be constantly agitated. This is why the big fat lie is in the forefront of most lives and stillness takes a back seat. If you can develop some awareness of inner stillness, less and less the non-beneficial view will be in control because the mind agitations will subside. It will be at this point that the need to reach for something will be lessened as it’s probably the first time in your life that the non-beneficial view has taken a back seat…

Limited Minded View

It’s your own mind that creates a limited minded view. If at some point your mind doesn’t settle, the limited minded view will remain intact and no new growth will be allowed…

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

There is so much being held onto without really looking if it’s truly beneficial. If you have a thought that you’re holding onto, guaranteed 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 because I know me, I know you. I may not know what specific limited minded view 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 limited minded 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’re 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 limited minded view is let go of, new growth will not be allowed…

Misguided Mind Chatter

Misguided mind chatter won’t quiet on its own regardless of what beliefs you have. Beliefs hinder the mind quieting because they’re just a response to the misguided mind chatter that blocks truth…

If your misguided mind chatter is in control and running your life, it doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to see truth. It’s such a misguided world and what makes it so is most people focus on outward answers to satisfy themselves. What the misguided mind actually is and how it’s created is by not being aware that you already have your answers and there’s no need to seek them. It’s such a misguided world and what makes it so is most people are misguided looking for answers for self satisfaction; the misguided chatter is created by not being aware of this. With a mind that’s conditioned to be satisfied you have to constantly look for it, hence the misguided chatter. This is how the misguided chatter of a Conditioned Mind is formed and how it blocks awareness of truth. It’s misguided chatter created because if you knew you were already satisfied, the need to look for it would be non existent and so would the misguided mind chatter.

Everyone has the ability to consciously remove the misguided mind chatter, but it’s not something that’s going to happen on its owns. It‘s beautiful that this is up to you. A little practice equates to a little truth so it’s up to each individual to do what’s necessary to stop the misguided mind chatter. As you practice being in the moment the misguided mind quiets and you’re left with truth. If you’re waiting for anything else you’ll be waiting a very long time as your misguided mind chatter will never allow you to see the truth…

Love Energy

Love energy is naturally free flowing because there’s no resistance, there isn’t a need to make love different. Selfish energy stops this flow because it’s based in trying to manipulate love…

Being aware of love at the precise moment it arises minimizes the selfish stories that are needed to make life the way you think it should be. Awareness of love stops the selfish story of the way you think something should be and allows the freedom of love, this becomes the beautiful view of the way that it is. After all, wanting things different is where all selfishness arises from. When you’re simply aware of love as it arises there isn’t a need for a selfish story so selfish energy doesn’t come into play as the love of your heart naturally becomes the beautiful operating energy of life.

Selfish energy becomes a created prison because it doesn’t allow for a natural flow of love energy; you become engulfed in the energy of selfishness. It’s the Conditioned Mind that cuts off the energy flow of love as it becomes the energy of the lower nature of self-centered nonsense. Why this energy causes issue is because it bombards love with an unnatural energy flow and doesn’t allow harmony. Love is naturally free flowing because there’s no resistance, there’s no need to make it different. Selfish energy stops the flow because it’s based in trying to manipulate love so what’s there is resisted to the point where the natural flow of love energy is cut off. The only thing needed for liberation is awareness aware of awareness, there’s no selfish energy here, there’s just the energy of love which is what’s actually here…

Unguarded Actions

It’s important to notice your actions because even if what you do comes from a labeled place of love, this label produces the bondage of unguarded actions which have complete control…

If you can’t watch your own actions to decipher if they’re truly beneficial, hold on because you’ll be taken on the roller coaster ride of life. Not that life does anything directly to you, but unguarded actions arise and they determines what kind of ride you’ll be on. Noticing your unguarded actions is essential if you’re not to be controlled by them. 

Thoughts that cause you to act are a natural part of life, they will occur. As far as I know there’s no way of controlling the first thought that arises, but I have found that noticing it allows for a split second of hesitation that can be used to decipher whether or not your actions are beneficial; remember attachment causes suffering, no matter how it’s labeled.

I often say the Conditioned Mind is diabolical because if there isn’t some awareness of how you’re controlled by unguarded actions, you’ll be controlled you as if you were a puppet on a string. So subtle are these unguarded actions that even if you’re doing things that are labeled as loving, if this isn’t watched, they will control you; bondage is bondage regardless of what label is applied to your actions. The Conditioned Mind is diabolical because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to remain in control of unguarded actions. This is also why it’s so important to notice your actions because even if what you do comes from a labeled place of love, the bondage this produces has complete control over you…

Beyond What You Think

Going beyond what you think is the gateway to truly being in harmony with life. Life’s energy will always be as it is, but you need to learn how to cooperate with it so your energy goes beyond what you think…

Visualize the ocean as the Universe and your thoughts as you’re swimming. You cannot swim without the ocean, but the ocean doesn’t need you to swim. It provides the place to swim, but not the swimming. You can swim forever, but it will always be a doing that’s using the ocean, and as the swimmer becomes tired, you’ll need something to hold onto or the ocean will consume you.

So what can you do to stop the constant thoughts (swimming) not as a temporarily solution, but one that will last and keep you from being consumed? You will need to learn to cooperate with the oceans energy and be in harmony with it. You can hope to find something in the ocean to keep you afloat, or you can turn over and simply float on your back. You’re still in the ocean, but now you simply align your energy with the oceans energy. You’re not fighting, grasping or hoping for something to come along to hold onto, you’re just floating on your back. Allowing yourself to be at one with the waves and thus you are using your energy to be in harmony with the oceans energy. 

Our thinking can be viewed like this, simply as energy. Life is also energy, which doesn’t need our thinking, but our thinking is from the energy of life. You can think forever, but it never becomes life, although it’s never separate from life. It’s just that the thinking energy is always grasping for something and doesn’t align with Universal energy. It’s when you become aware of your thinking through quieting the mind that you are in cooperation with the energy of the Universe and thus life. This is where you will find the stillness that allows you to be in harmony with life and stops the need to grasp for something that doesn’t assist in any way in keeping you afloat. Hence you are then aligned with the energy with the Universe, floating along in cooperation with life…

Surface Facade

The root of all struggles are deep, they’re not just at the surface facade. They’re rooted in the structure of how you think. If you don’t investigate this beyond the surface facade, nothing will ever change…

Changing the surface facade mind structure is like turning a ship. The intention to turn happens right away, but the turn itself is gradual. It’s as though we know we need to start turning right away, but we don’t see below the surface facade. Here’s a simple suggestion if you want to get in touch with breaking free of this ingrained surface facade structure; it’s not complicated. When you do something, investigate what the surface facade is. No reason to go back and look for a traumatic incident, why it’s seen only from the surface facade level is sufficient.

If the need to reach for something because life throws you a curve ball, and you don’t investigate why the need to reach arose, you’ll probably use a surface facade distraction not to succumb to it. By doing this you’ll never be free because you’ll never get in touch with why the surface facade is in place. Investigating why a surface facade is in place may be the most important thing you can do for yourself when something is done that’s not in your best interest. If you don’t, you will just substitute one thing for another and in the process remain trapped to what’s causing the need to reach. You may not like this post and you may even ignore it, but don’t be surprised when the next life curve ball comes and you find yourself reaching for something, you just won’t know why because you’re seeing it as a surface facade…