Mind Craving

The pleasures of the world take on many forms, but it’s the craving of the mind that makes one seek them. This craving can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there’s nothing to crave…

One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it craves pleasure most of the time. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse crave for pleasure. The mind wants to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasant ones. It spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up along side you, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it. The reason for doing this is strictly to satisfy the mind crave for pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of the way it has been conditioned to crave.

Pleasure seeking craving is not in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think craving pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle and it loses its grip on you, you will see the fallacy of this. True pleasure is in stillness not in things; craving stillness is not the same craving for what the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. It’s only in stillness that cravings are truly satisfied, not because it’s given something, but because in stillness cravings don’t materialize so there’s nothing that needs to be satisfied…

Inner Battles

Nothing that happens in life creates an inner battle unless your own mind allows it. This is the insanity of a Conditioned Mind, its self destructive solutions are from within and they take away your peace…

The bottom line for me is I’ve found a practical way to minimize the inner battles in my life that caused my own destruction. Which by the way is my own mind creating an inner battle telling me it’s needed to cope with life; a life that was controlled by a destructive mind set. My own mind created all the inner battles that went on by choosing actions I thought I wanted to do, but my choices always caused suffering. I developed a mind that told me to do things that were self destructive. From relationships, to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and a slew of other things, nothing was ever chosen that was beneficial for me; my choices always seemed to cause more harm than good. How this mind set developed I’m not sure, but I do know this, it can be described as pure insanity.

Many years ago although it wasn’t a white light experience, an inner urging occurred that was tired of all the destructive behavior. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, but I did know I needed to find a way to bring peace into my life. A label didn’t need to be applied to what happened to me. All that was needed was for me to know was my behavior which was once totally self destructive was no longer this way. This is why labels and what others do isn’t a concern of mine. Because I know for years my own mind allowed these things to create battles within myself and because of the shift that has occurred, there’s an awareness that inner battles don’t have to be created anymore. The bottom line is this, when I have an issue with something it’s my own self destructive mind that creates a battle which means I’m not a peace, but now because there’s awareness of this I don’t allow mind created inner battles so there’s peace. So again the bottom line is to not create inner battles. All I ever wanted in my life was peace, but I didn’t know it was my own mind that was the cause of why there wasn’t any…

Impermanence

Thought Trap

Thought traps are endless, but understand the traps come from your own mind. Even though there are conditioned triggers, it’s because of the attachment to thoughts is why there are traps…

If you’re practicing living a spiritual life, but you don’t know your own mind, it’s like wanting to be healthy, but not reducing the amount of junk food you eat; your results will be non existent. If you don’t notice the thought traps, the whole point of any practice will be missed. This is because the trap of thoughts for things outside makes looking inward difficult. There are so many things in place that prevent looking inward from happening, if it doesn’t happen you’ll remain in bondage to your thought traps. The traps aren’t real because when there’s even the slightest opening to allow what’s within to be seen, the expansion beyond the thought traps begins.

Thought traps are very enticing, if they weren’t the percentage of conscious and unconscious beings would be reversed. It’s not this way because the thought traps are in control; these traps are only real because of perception. There’s no denying they’re there, but they’re in control because there’s a fictitious belief the traps are needed. We alone are the creators of this and if one doesn’t have an open mind, the thought traps will continue their onslaught of control. To me, the only way around this is to develop awareness of the thought traps…

Automatic Result

No Lack-Only Love

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