Sense Reliance

Sense reliance creates a prison to a self that blocks love from being the guiding energy of daily living, and although you may be alive, reliance on the senses doesn’t allow you to truly live…

Sense reliance creates a prison to the material world of self. How controlling this is determines the degree that the senses have a hold on you; make no mistake, sense reliance is self-serving reliance regardless of what is used. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences. No matter what’s used sense reliance keeps you in prison. I’d like to address something much more subtle than some substance or object and that is the reliance on your own mind is the real prison.

A substance or object can hold you in captivity, but it’s the mind that puts you in the place of sense reliance. Without the mind telling you sense reliance is needed, it would be non existent. The subtleness of this sense reliance is literally mind boggling. Take an alarm clock as an example, as soon as the alarm rings, if the snooze button is hit, instantly the mind makes the self want the moment to be in some other way. If this mind set isn’t altered to bring about awareness, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a mind that’s been conditioned to satisfy a sense reliance self.

This takes on many forms: talking about others, eating habits, pouting or sulking, social status, being miserly (cheap), trying to control situations and people, judging, lust, greed, envy, self righteousness, false pride, and the list goes on, but what all these have in common is they are all sense reliance solutions of the Conditioned Mind to fix an internal problem of lack. Until something is done to allow the mind to settle, this will probably go on to the day that you’re near death. If this happens, you will see how most of your life was never truly experienced in the way that it could have been. This may not seem as devastating as say using alcohol or drugs, but it’s because either way life is experienced from a sense reliance perspective and is never truly lived…