Awareness Tools

Awareness is what happens when the tools that allow it are used. Once the tools of noise are changed, awareness naturally arises because it’s what’s there…

If you think you have tools that need to be changed, there are tools that have been revealed to me to assist in doing this. I know I don’t have the only tools and by the way they actually aren’t mine, I borrowed them from people who came before me; I share them in my articles with the compassion from my heart. So if you do have tools that aren’t beneficial know this, they can be changed. This is my aspiration, nothing more. It’s not something that I strive to do, because striving to be or do something leads to suffering.

Awareness is what my new tools allowed once the old ones were changed; lack of awareness causes suffering. I sit a lot which has sharpened my tools more and more, but this also caused me heartache as it’s observed that people suffer needlessly. What I know is this; I can only change myself, but I can share the tools I use that allow me to change. Some of the tools I use are sitting, sensation of touch, guided meditations, bowl mediations, watching the breath, walking, etc, basically I use whatever allows present moment awareness. Whether you want to use any of these is up to you, but if you don’t use mine find your own. Please make sure the tools you use make your behavior a benefit to all beings. And keep sharpening your tools so you can keep on expanding your awareness and bring more love into a world that can definitely use it…

Expansion of Awareness

Intellect doesn’t make you wise. Wisdom is something that occurs as there’s an expansion of awareness. With this expansion of awareness wisdom arises and goes beyond intellect…

Until there’s the experience of the expansion of awareness, not much will ever be different in your life. This is because in order for things to be different there has to be the awareness why they are as they are. Awakening is not something that one makes happen, it’s something that occurs. How you will know that it occurred is by the awareness you have that your mind is based to self-serve. Very simple to see this once it occurs, very difficult to see it if it doesn’t. The key to the expansion of awareness is to know the true nature of your own mind.

One day it was revealed to me that at the core of all my issues was my own mind and nothing was ever going to be different in my life if there wasn’t awareness of this. I had to become aware why I had to always be busy before I could be aware; before awareness was experienced in my life I had to find out why there wasn’t any. Awareness doesn’t have to be attained for one to acquire it, all that’s needed is to be aware it’s not there. Once this occurs there’s a starting point that can be established so the process of awareness can expand, but for this to occur awareness has to be aware of itself…

Irrelevant Wanting

The Conditioned Mind creates a view based in fulfilling irrelevant wanting. It’s difficult to break free of this because irrelevant wanting is reinforced daily. A mind aware of this is aware of awareness…

To me, life struggles have nothing to do with life, it’s the view based in irrelevant wanting that causes struggles; this view is controlled by the Conditioned Mind. When irrelevant wanting is fulfilled and things are going your way, there’s not much of a struggle; life is considered good. When things are going the way that you want, what causes your struggles are pushed aside. When this is done it makes the base of life centered in irrelevant wanting as you get pulled around by the Conditioned Mind like a dog on a leash.

The more control the Conditioned Mind has, the more suffering there is in your life. Sometimes it’s very subtle, but it’s there. As a matter of fact even if you’re not aware of being controlled by your irrelevant wanting, it still produces suffering. The suffering doesn’t occur because you don’t get your way, it occurs just by being in a state where the irrelevant wanting of the Conditioned Mind is in control.

The less the irrelevant wanting which just wants what you want when you want it, is the base of your view, the less you struggle with yourself and with life. This is simply because irrelevant wanting isn’t in control. When you’re unaware of this, the Conditioned Mind creates chaos by irrelevant wanting; there’s immense suffering in this. Practice being in a space of presence where there is no irrelevant wanting. In this space. you don’t have irrelevant wanting so you don’t entertain the energy that causes suffering; a free mind is energy free of irrelevant wanting…

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…