An Empty Closet

Fear doesn’t live in the closet, fear lives strictly inside your head, and until the mind settles so you can look inside your head, you’re always going to fear what’s in the closet…

Fear doesn’t live in the closet, it lives inside your head. My entire life was driven by the made up fear in my head that my mind created through the way I was conditioned. The mind is nothing but energy, but the content of the way it’s conditioned determines whether fear is created. Sometimes angels are created, but they’re still made up. Kind of like whistling in the dark to keep away the boogie man or in this case fear. As long as the need to whistle is there, fear will never go away.

The fear that’s inside your head and creates fear of what’s in the closet, is a lie; all you have to do is open the closet door to expose this lie. The conditioning tells you to not open the door so the lie along with the fear remains in place. This can be changed for angels and you would think it’s better to have them living in the closet, but although angels have a better reputation, they too are a created lie.

This is where the simplicity of life steps in if you can just understand fear only lives inside your head. There is nothing in your head except the story of what your conditioning creates. This is what takes the simplicity out of life and makes it difficult. Why this creates difficulties is because life is lived as a story of what’s in your head instead of the simple fact that nothing is inside the closet…

Hear What Life Has to Say

There’s no way you will ever fully understand life so answers are made up. Only in the space of silence can you hear what life has to say without making up answers…

Hearing what life has to say as it occurs allows for harmony, it’s in this space that what’s not of the mind can arise; thoughts actually block this hearing. The silence is always there, but it’s not always heard because of the noise between the ears. Most people are programmed to live visually without taking much time to truly hear what life has to say. This visual living is why you get pulled around by the outer view because hearing the silence underneath the visual hasn’t been developed. There’s no way you can fully understand life conceptually so answers are made up; only in the space of silence can you hear what life is saying. Develop a meditation where you just sit with the sounds of the moment, add nothing take nothing away, just sit, listen and you will hear what arises. 

Hearing life’s moments is so different than being controlled by the visual view. This is because through the visual, a label of like or dislike is instantly applied and attachment follows. This is the point where the visual gains control. As this occurs, hearing what life has to say is missed. This is the beginning of how stories are created, it’s because the space of each moment will be filled with something; it will either be a story or silence. Learning to hear what occurs in each moment is a skill few develop. Until it becomes the primary way life is viewed, the visual will continue to keep you in bondage as the outer control doesn’t allow you to hear what life has to say…

Distorted Minded View

There’s not much life in a distorted minded view. What happens with a distorted view is one’s love flowing energy is cut off which causes everyone to suffer…

A distorted minded view is what causes one to get locked into only seeing things from the side of suffering. It matters little what that distortion is, as it’s the rigidness of being in a distorted mode that doesn’t allow love flowing energy. The is what happens when a story is created and it becomes the distorted view of what life is about in any particular moment. This becomes deeply ingrained as one becomes emotionally tied to whatever the distorted view is focused on. It’s very difficult to not attach to something that is held dear to our hearts, such as our children, spouse, parents, relatives, friends and so on, but you can have compassion, passion, and genuine love for something without attaching to it and it being distorted.

To me, being distorted minded is the normal view of many people and it’s why many suffer unnecessarily. I’ve noticed this occurring in so many lives and I can see the suffering it’s causing. Unfortunately those in the midst of this distorted view cannot see it. Nor can one pull themselves out of it until the distorted minded view is seen as the cause of suffering. The distorted view doesn’t allow the openness needed to be free from attachment, and since attachment is the root of suffering, suffering is inevitable. The tighter the grip of something the more one becomes distorted minded and the less love flowing energy there is in one’s life. There’s not much life in a distorted minded view because what happens is one’s love flowing energy is cut off; this view always causes suffering…

Resisting Change

When you can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom. Today can be the day that resisting change doesn’t hold you in the past…

Although most change is resisted, the reason why is because it’s not understood that resisting it keeps you in the past. If you liked donuts you wouldn’t want to eat them every single day at every meal. Change will happen, but resisting it doesn’t have to be. Make this the day that change doesn’t isn’t resisted. See it as the opening of a door that gets you unstuck from the complacency of what’s familiar. Let’s face it nobody really changes unless they’re forced to. The mind loves the familiar, even if the familiar isn’t the most beneficial choice. I see it all the time in the responses to my post. All my post do is provide another perspective, but many times they’re just discounted for the view a person has in place. I lived a conditioned existence for many years so I know what I’m talking about. Not many people truly understand the Conditioned Mind so when something new is presented, the resistance to it rears its ugly head; as it’s discounted you remain locked in past conditioning.

Resisting change will happen consciously or unconsciously, but what’s not grasped is although the mind is conditioned to hold onto the familiar, change is needed to grow. For years I was stuck in resistive familiar conditioning that didn’t allow change to take place. Even when it looked as though change did happen, it was only on the surface level. Surface change is a society measurement and it’s mostly a facade. Inner change is a transformation and can’t be measured. When one can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom…

Unconsciously Controlled

Thoughts will arise, but they don’t have to unconsciously control you. If there isn’t awareness of your thoughts, they will have control over you and will unconsciously lead you…

If there isn’t awareness of your thoughts, there won’t be anyway of knowing how they control you and how you’re unconsciously led by them. Without this awareness you’ll be distracted and taken on a distracted ride. Not that life does anything directly to anyone, but thoughts do arise and they determine what kind of ride you will be on. Awareness of your arisen thoughts is essential if you’re not going to be distracted by them. Thoughts are a natural part of life, they will arise. To me there’s no way of controlling the thoughts that arise, but I have found that awareness of them allows for some space that can be used to determine whether or not the unconscious thought leads you; remember it’s the unconscious attachment to a thought that causes suffering not the thought itself.

The Conditioned Mind is cunning. Unless there’s some awareness of how much you’re being led by your unconscious thoughts, they will and this has to happen, lead you around as if you were a puppet on a string. So subtle is this that even if you’re doing things that are labeled as good, if these thoughts aren’t watched, they will eventually control you; remember control is control regardless of what label is applied to the thought. This is why the Conditioned Mind is cunning because of its subtleness in using whatever it can to unconsciously control you. Thoughts will arise, but you don’t have to be controlled by them. If there isn’t awareness of this, your thoughts will be unconscious and you will automatically be controlled by them…

Form Reliance

Form reliance 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…

Form reliance creates a prison to the material world of self. How controlling this is determines the degree that your reliance has a hold on you; make no mistake, form reliance is form reliance regardless of what is used. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences. Form is form, 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 form reliance of your own mind which 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 form reliance. Without the mind telling you form reliance is needed, reliance on anything would be non existent. The subtleness of this form 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 (form) want the moment to be in some other way. 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 form 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 form 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 form 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 form reliance perspective and is never truly lived…

Repeated Labels

Repeated labels keep you attached to a world where there’s very little freedom because there’s no room for truth. If you want freedom, the repeated labels will have to go…

The more you repeat labeling something, the more those labels are in control. It’s difficult to experience the openness of something if it’s already decided how it is. To remain open one needs to limit their repeated labels. This is essential if there’s to be alignment with the Universe and be free from the repeated labeling process. Repeated labels will need to be let go of if there’s to be freedom; this hold is very subtle. Even the label on whether you like this post or not will keep you in the same place. This post can resonate with you without labeling it, but labels seem to make the world go round. That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, but that’s just a label.

I lived an existence that was based in repeated labels for most of my life. This caused much conflict; wars are started over repeated labels. If you’re really honest with yourself you’ll see that every disagreement you ever had was caused by being attached to a repeated label about something. I’m not saying you shouldn’t stand up for truth, but truly knowing about something and repeatedly labeling it are totally different.

There is a place of no labels, if it’s not understood you’ll never become label free, and you’ll remain in an existence of repeated labels. When this is the place lived from there’s very little freedom. When you can just be with life as it unfolds and not repeatedly label it as this or that, you’ll be on the verge of truly experiencing life, label free. When you’re not applying a repeated label to everything, there’s freedom to be with life as it is without being stuck in the same place…