Lies Exposed

Those who don’t understand their lies cannot know truth and therefore remain a slave to the lies. You needn’t have all the answers to know truth, you just need your lies exposed so you’re not enslaved by them…

Fifteen years ago I began developing a practice of quietness because I started understanding the lies of what it was to be a slave to the noise; I say “was” because in truth I am a slave no more. I know the poison of the lies of greed, hate, and delusion and have developed the discipline to not to allow them to control me to some degree. I know how living selfishly and being judgmental caused not only my suffering, but it caused suffering to those around me as well. Because this is known I use tools so I can live differently. If the lies weren’t exposed there wouldn’t be awareness of truth. 

The ultimate delusion is by the one who claims to know truth, but doesn’t even understand the lies, this is the place where the majority of people live. It isn’t arrogant to know the truth by understanding and not being controlled by the lies, but it is arrogant to claim to know truth. Many remain enslaved the to lies as it’s stated that there are different versions of truth and no one can know all truth or truth of another. It has been through my experience that I have discovered there aren’t different versions of truth, there are only versions of the lies; a lie is always a lie. When your lies are exposed, you will know truth, and another’s truth can also be known because another’s lies can be known, but this can only be known by knowing your own lies. Remember truth is not about having all the answers, it’s understanding the lies. The lies the world presents are the gateway to truth because they are the gateway of seeing the lies of greed, hate, and delusion, so it is possible to know truth, but only when the lies are exposed…

Created Problems

Through the way the mind becomes conditioned, problems are created so the mind has something to do, and because of this creating problems becomes constant…

The issue with having to constantly solve problems to arrange life to be a certain way is the problems are all created. Even if one makes up a story that life is exactly how you want it, the mind begins creating a new problem almost immediately. Life is continuous, it’s broken up into segments (created problems) by a mind that’s in a constant state of agitation. 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 see things in this way, it’s because the mind has been trained to create problems so it’s only doing what it’s been trained to do.

The Conditioned Mind sees created problems all over the place. The shortest line in the store, politics, religion, work, diets, and on an on, all this is strictly done to create another problem; your mind tells you solving it will make life perfect. Let’s say everyday you create one new problem to solve, that would mean you create roughly 21,000 problems; this is done to constantly have life the way you think it should be. After all, nobody purposely gets in the longest line at the store, but if you did nothing would really change except for maybe not creating another problem…

No One Looking Integrity

No one looking integrity means what you do when no one is looking is the same as what you do when someone is watching, if this isn’t the level of one’s integrity, it’s because there’s a lack of self honesty…

One way to the purification of the mind and heart is to develop integrity. Here’s one definition of integrity “the quality of being honest” to me this is about self honesty because when I’m truly honest with me, there’s no way I can be dishonest with anyone else. I’ve learned a lot about self honesty in the last nine years and it’s something that eluded me for most of my life. Honesty isn’t about what I present to the world, it’s about what is done when no one is looking. The world is easily fooled because of the conditioning in place, but what does it matter if one gains the whole world, but loses themselves.

Integrity is a huge hurdle in breaking the chains of the Conditioned Mind, without it truth cannot be revealed. If I don’t know what blocks me from the purification of the mind and heart, the blocks remain. And without establishing what I call “no one is looking integrity” one remains stuck in their old habits because there’s no room for anything new. Certain things trigger certain thoughts and if those thoughts are attached to, it’s usually because one’s integrity has been compromised. Although there’s no right or wrong in this, it does make someone do things when no one is looking that they wouldn’t necessarily do if someone was watching; as always investigate this for yourself.

Only to yourself is honesty necessary because it’s only yourself that will keep you from the purification of your mind and heart. This self honestly is tied in with loving yourself; when you’re honest with yourself, you’re truly loving yourself because you’re making room for the mind to expand. This allows for the integrity to do what you do when no one is looking just as you do in front of others. Difficult yes, but only because “no one is looking integrity” isn’t the level of honesty that’s in place…

Noisy Mind Activity

Beneath the noisy mind activity there’s nothing but space. This is difficult to see because life isn’t about what you think it is. In fact it isn’t about anything you think it is, but it’s not seen because of trying to figure it out through noisy mind activity…

Round and round the mind goes and where it stops nobody knows. This is a perfect example of noisy mind activity that’s in place for most people. One thought after another, no space, no quietness, just the noise of thought manifesting itself. If you could just sit back in a space where the noise subsides, there’s a chance to truly see what many mystic’s spoke of. If you think you have an idea of what life is about, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that’s just noise. There are no answers to what life is about and the more noisy the existence, the more you will think you have life figured out. I’m not saying I know what life is about, but I do know what it isn’t about and it has nothing to do with what is seen through the noisy mind. The more you’re controlled by the noise the less life is truly experienced. Below the noisy mind activity is the only place where life is truly experienced. You can travel all around the world and make up the story of all the beauty around you, but it’s only a story conjured up to provide pleasure and store it as a memory to be used later. Beneath the surface no story is needed, no pleasure is needed, in fact nothing is needed because this is where true life exist. 

Think about it, your entire life is a noisy story until one day it ends. Every experience is taken with you as if it never occurred. They were thought to be needed so you could make sense of your life, but really they mean absolutely nothing because they’re all created from noisy mind activity. Buddha talked about of delusion, Jesus spoke of being in the world not of it, to me this is what they were talking about. If you remain trapped in noisy mind activity, you will remain in your suffering. Even those who think they understand this don’t because it’s not something to understand. Beneath the noisy mind activity there’s nothing but space, this is where the possibility arises of truly seeing what life is about. Why there’s difficulty in seeing this is because life isn’t about anything that the noisy mind thinks it is. In fact it’s about everything you think it isn’t and this is because of the trying to figure it out on through noisy mind activity…

Sparkle of Light

When you’re aware that all opinions are a made up story, love takes their place. This love is a sparkle of light and is always there, but it’s not experienced because of the conditioned opinions that block it…

Without opinions everyone would view life through the eyes of love which by the way is the sparkle of light of peace; because of opinions this sparkle of light isn’t seen. The view of opinions are made up by the energy of unconsciousness, this makes everything that happens in life seen through the conditioning of your opinions; through this view what is true is missed. This makes life about nothing real except for the opinions that are formed by the Conditioned Mind.

Being unaware of opinions are what makes the mind attach to thoughts and those attachments are the cause of what controls your life. What’s factual is this, life just happens, it’s not personal, it’s not about anything you think it is. It’s not about right, wrong, love, hate, good or bad, it‘s simply learning to understand your minds true nature of quietness and not being led around by your conditioned opinions; whatever they are. When there’s awareness of this you will truly love. A love that has always been there, but it’s never experienced because of your conditioned opinions not allowing you to see your sparkle of light…

Mind Potential

If you don’t take responsibility for the potential of your mind, there are plenty of influences that will do it for you. Whatever is thought about frequently becomes the potential of your mind…

Our minds are more like water than something solid. What happens is sometimes it gets frozen and becomes solid. Also water takes the shape of whatever container it’s in and that’s exactly what happens to an unconscious mind; in this case the container is whatever one attaches to. The key when it comes to the mind is to make sure it’s in a container that’s based in love. Water is influenced by many things, tides, wind, weather, and so on, the mind is also influenced by many things. When there’s awareness of this the mind is somewhat less influenced; it’s totally influenced when there isn’t awareness. The Conditioned Mind will say jump and you will jump, and depending on the conditioning you may even ask how high. If you don’t take responsibility for the potential of your mind there are plenty of influences that will do it for you.

Look at the politics here in the USA. See how individuals have influence over so many unconscious minds, and regardless of who you’re for, it’s been allowed to let them influence the potential of many minds. This now becomes the container for whoever you’re for or against and your mind will act accordingly. Even though it seems like this was a choice there really wasn’t. The question of any influence is it based in love? Whatever is thought about frequently becomes the potential of the mind; it has to because that’s how it’s conditioned. This article is strictly to be viewed to see how all of this limits you and to possibly allow you to see what container (attachment) is establishing the potential of your mind…

Selfish Box Trap

What is considered the selfish box entraps most people to the destructiveness that this enforces. Unless you can go beyond this, there will be acceptance of the destructiveness of the selfish box…

Stepping outside of the selfish box as far as thinking goes is a must if one is to go beyond the destructiveness of this box. You may ask why would a person want to go beyond the selfish box, here’s why. The so called selfish box is based in form and to be attached to form causes suffering. It’s as simple as that, selfishness pushes attachment to the senses (form). Life attached to form still occurs, it just isn’t experienced as beneficial as it can be. There will still be experiences simply because you’re alive, but they will be dictated by the selfishness and there’ll be much suffering associated with them. The selfish box entraps you to the destructiveness selfishness enforces. Unless you can see this to go beyond it, there will be acceptance of the selfish box. It’s an easy trap to get caught in because the selfishness uses delusion to distract you.

Selfishness also plays right into the reward system of attaching to form. Who does anything that doesn’t have the reward of pleasure associated with it? This can be applied to just about anybody and anything. When was the last time you purposely did something that you knew was going to be unpleasant with no reward attached to it? This is pivotal in understanding the process of the Conditioned Mind and the way the selfishness cause suffering. Until you don’t attach to what arises, without judging it or associating it with pleasure, the selfish box will be what dictates the life you’re living. And it will be destructive based on the attachment to the selfish box…