Aware of Awareness

What leads to a peaceful life begins and ends in the present moment. You can have awareness you’re thinking about something in the past or future, but you can never actually be there…

When a practice that allows awareness is in place, it’s to allow the present moment to be experienced. Being aware of what’s actually happening as opposed to being pulled around by it or pushing it away and applying a label to what’s happening, is what will dictate the amount of peace there is in your life. Life is magical in its essence, but there’s nothing magical in one becoming aware of awareness. All roads that lead to a peaceful life begin and end in the present moment and an awareness practice will assist in this. 

Take a step and simply be aware of it, now take another, this is also an anchor as is the breath to the present. One cannot be aware of something in the past or future because it doesn’t exist. You can be aware that you’re thinking about something in the past or future, but you can never actually be there. Every step or breath can only be taken as it is happening. The more you become aware of this, the more anchored you become of being in the present moment as opposed to grasping for straws in the story of what’s going on between your ears. Be aware of reading this and just observe what arises. Just be with it, no pulling or pushing, just be aware of what’s happening. It’s in this space of awareness that you will find peace and this is because in this space peace is the only thing that’s there…

Energy Within

You can’t be different from your energy within because it comes from you so there’s no where for you or it to go. Love and you will be love because that’s the energy within…

Simply put, the energy within is the energy you will live by; you can’t be different from what is in you. This is a Universal Law that has to occur. It’s no different than pressing down on the gas pedal in your car, the car will go faster; it has to there’s no way around it. If the energy within is of hate, that will be your energy whether you want it to be or not. It will take you over, it’s how energy works. You can’t really show hate to someone and love another. That’s not happening, it can’t because as stated before the more you press down on the gas pedal, the faster the car will go. If you truly want a loving heart, learning to love all beings is a necessity. This simple but profound law isn’t really understood by many people; all one needs to do is look around. The energy within is your own energy so it becomes your responding action.

Nothing from the outside causes any emotion to arise. You may think it does, but that’s only because you don’t understand your own mind and how energy works. It’s really unfortunate because it’s not understood how any energy except love causes your own suffering. Although unloving energy may affect all of humanity to a degree, the effect it has on you is where most of the harm is. You can’t run away from your own energy because it comes from within you so there’s no where for you to hide. This is why acting in unloving ways constantly repeats itself because you can only be the energy that’s within Until there’s awareness of this, unloving action will be the focal point of your energy. Love and you will be love or not and that’s the energy you will be because you can’t be different than what is within…

2026 Present Moment

Life happens in between the plans that are made. Plans can be planned, but the results are not always in our control. A resolution to live in the present moment is a true resolution for life…

It is the start of a new year, but it isn’t time for resolutions or big expectations because that’s just the way the mind sets itself up to fail. Don’t say last year was a tough year, unless you want to carry that burden around with you. That’s up to you, but it won’t change anything. Life can only be lived in the present moment. It doesn’t mean there can’t be plans, but the actions can only be applied in the present moment regardless of what the future holds or what happened in the past.

Life is one continuous journey, the mind has been conditioned to believe somewhere other than the present is a better place. But here is where life occurs no matter what you’re doing or what resolutions are made. As you wait for the results of your resolutions to make your life complete, it’s literally passing you by. Life will never be any more complete than it is right now. This is something that needs to be realized if you’re to truly live your life and not wait for it to be perfect (only in your mind). You can enjoy the life you’re given instead of thinking it needs to be in some other way. Happy Present Moment 2026 my dear friends and please, live life as it arises in the present moment because it’s the only way life can be truly experienced…

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…