Reaching Dependency

Reaching dependency is like wishing your life away as it keeps you from experiencing the present moment. It’s a dependency because what’s occurring right now is always what’s here as opposed to needing the present moment different…

Many people think reaching is something that’s needed, but it’s not. It’s a dependency used by the Conditioned Mind and it keeps you from not understanding what it means to be in the present moment. It’s a direct cause of suffering as it makes you dependent on something that makes you live life in the future. The Conditioned Mind does this by telling you the present moment isn’t good enough and it needs to be different. It projects a lie that things would be better if they were in some other way. Maybe on the surface they would be, but inward is where one derives the perception that makes life what it is; so it will be a life of dependency or one of contentment. Even if what’s reached for is attainable it won’t last, but the dependency will. Inward there’s a better chance to break the dependency, but this is only if one is awake enough to see this.

Let’s say you’re diagnosed with some kind of illness, the only thing reaching does is it makes you wish the diagnoses was different, but it doesn’t change the fact of what is occurring right now. The illness remains regardless of the dependency of what you think is needed to reach for. If your life isn’t dependent on needing things different and it’s accepted as it is, you will experience the peace of the present moment regardless of what’s occurring. This is because right now is the only place of true existence so it’s important to see this. Not in the future, but right now because right now doesn’t need to be different…