Inner Flare Ups

All flare ups arise from within yourself; they arise from internal mind disturbances. Without discipline, the mind will never settle nor will the flare up of needing to reach for something externally…

The world is in a state of constant flare ups, but not with each other as you may think, it’s with ourselves. The lack of understanding of your own mind is the cause of all inner flare ups; most people haven’t a clue of this. We lash out at people, have road rage, try to change people, protest, and constantly seek to alter the way that we feel because we were never taught how to be with life as it is and accept who we are as we are. Needing things different would never arise if you had the ability to be with life as it is. If you don’t have some contentment with the way things are, what makes you think if things were different there would be contentment. You would still have inner flare ups that make you reach for things externally.

There’s external reaching because you want to feel different. My mind was always disturbed because there wasn’t an understanding of the Conditioned Mind so the flare ups weren’t understood. It didn’t matter what happened, by not having the ability to be with life as it is, the mind becomes disturbed as flare ups arise.

Nothing causes a flare up unless it’s allowed. If something bothers you and it can be changed by all means change it, but it needs to be looked at why there’s a flare up to begin with. Even if the thing is changed, without an understanding of your own mind, you will just move on to the next thing which will cause you to become disturbed once again…