Existence is continuous until one day it’s not. It becomes chaotic within because of the attachment to self. Without this attachment, the beauty of life unfolds as the chaos within falls away…
The real cause of any issue with life is not with what actually happens, but how we attach a self to it. Life occurs regardless of the self, but what attachment does is it makes it chaotic by isolating it and making it personal. Life is neutral until it’s attached to, then it becomes an event that’s all about the self. Without self the chaos within doesn’t happen, life just occurs. I’m not insinuating a self exist or not, all I’m saying is the attachment to self is at the root of all chaos within, and if you want to be free of this chaos within, you‘ll have to be free of the attachment to self…
Creating a gap is due to the misunderstanding of what love is. If you fill the gap with the things of the world it will never be filled. If you fill the gap with love for others it will never exist…
I had a gap in my life for forty nine years that always needed to be filled. I didn’t know this at the time, but it was the absence of love that created this gap. This is a very simplistic yet profound explanation of the nature of this gap. Without love this gap is the cause of most dysfunctional behavior in life. It makes you view life from the material realm and the gap cannot be filled from this realm. It uses whatever it can to be filled, but until it’s filled with love, you will keep trying to fill it. This is why dysfunctional behavior manifest because when your view is from the material realm it’s self-serving and isn’t based in love. You will use whatever you become conditioned to use. You will even use a false concept of love to fill this gap.
This view is developed because you think your answer to fill the gap is in the form of some object. Nothing this gap is filled with is lasting because whatever you use is limited. Think about this, any object that you use from the material world has a limit to it. Nothing of this world last forever except eternal love so the gap will never be filled with anything materiel. Any object used is limited so the amount of time the gap is filled will be limited. The gap will never stay filled for long unless it’s filled with love…
You will only be on a path of light when you stop trying to force it and allow it to manifest itself. It’s not something to possess or attain, it‘s only revealed when you stop trying to get it…
The so called spiritual path is the exact opposite of the material path. On the material path, the more you accomplish as an individual the more successful you’re considered to be by others. Also the more you possess, the more material success becomes the path of your life. On the spiritual path, individual accomplishments don’t assist in being more spiritual; you can’t possess spirituality. Unlike a material existence, the spiritual existence is not a doing. The more you think you need to do something to be spiritual, the less spiritual you will be. Spirituality is not something to possess, it can never be attained. On the material path, the more you have the more you are held in esteem. On the spiritual path, the less you have the more you are held in esteem. Not because of you, it’s because of the light of Universal Love that is emitted to others. You are held in esteem because of the path within, not because of anything possessed.
Those conditioned by the material path are attracted to possessions. Spiritual people are attracted to the path of light. The light of Universal Love is the only possession on the spiritual path, but it’s not a real possession; it’s given freely by doing less and becoming a channel to emit light to others. It isn’t a doing at all, actually the more you try to do to possess the path of light, the less it shines. It’s in stillness that light shines and becomes the path your life is guided by. The quieter you become the brighter the light shines and the more attracted others will be to it, but you can only be on a path guided by light when you stop trying to force it and learn to Just Be…
Thoughts are neither right nor wrong, but there are some that are more beneficial. If there is thought awareness and they are not attached to, the non-beneficial ones will dissipate as passing clouds…
Thoughts come and go just as passing clouds. If you’ve ever sat and observed clouds, you’ve noticed the clouds eventually dissipate; here one minute, gone the next. It’s the same when there’s thought awareness, they arise, there’s no denying that, but unless there’s attachment to them, they dissipate. The question to ask is are your thoughts beneficial? Your answer is a key factor in how you will live your life. Let’s say you have a thought to do something unhealthy, if you’re not aware of the thought, the benefit factor of it and the next step becomes an unhealthy action.
There’s no way to be in the thoughtless realm continuously, at least this has been my experience, it’s more so to learn if your thoughts are beneficial or not. If there isn’t thought awareness this won’t be noticed and non-beneficial actions will be more in control. This is because most minds unconsciously default to satisfying yourself which doesn’t allow the objectivity one gets from thought awareness. When there isn’t thought awareness, they arise one right after the other and the mind gets cloudier and cloudier. Eventually there will be attachment; most likely it will be to a non-beneficial thought. Only with a settled mind can there be thought awareness, and when there is it allows for the energy to live life in the most beneficial of ways…
Presence energy comes from a sacred place, it’s not a place that’s associated with any activity, it’s a place which simply connects us to our own heart…
In my experience presence energy doesn’t expand on its own, it needs synchronization with our own heart. A presence connection deepens our heart energy which is what connects us to love. Presence energy connects us to our heart, when it does there’s no more hate because we expand in love; in the space of presence, heart energy is experienced. A smile, a warm embrace, the magnificence of love, these are the deepest connection of our hearts. Loving oneself is the presence energy that connects humanity, these are experienced from the sacred place within.
I don’t really know what life is about, but I do understand how presence energy is sacred. When this is experienced it leaves one speechless. For me, because of this energy I have been speechless many times in the last seventeen years. I’m using the words presence energy to describe this, but words cannot truly explain it. I watch in awe as I explain what I went through to someone and see presence in their eyes; this is our hearts uniting. Presence energy comes from such a sacred place, it’s not something that any human activity can make happen. When there’s presence energy there will be heart unity with ourselves and with all humanity…
When there’s not the constant pull of needing form satisfying pleasures, your harmonic intuition works with whatever creativity is within you for the betterment of humanity…
Let go of the stubbornness that causes you to suffer. It arises as greed, hate, and delusion; it’s the out of sorts energy of stubbornness that causes suffering. Holding onto form pleasures is an out of sorts non-harmonic energy. The core of holding on is stubbornness, it manifest as the belief that the more your form pleasures are satisfied, the happier you will be. Satisfying these form pleasures are not an issue until this out of sorts non-harmonic energy takes hold, that’s when problems arise. Remove this mask and what you will be left with goes beyond anything you can imagine.
The fulfillment of form pleasure is sought by everyone and has been in place for eons. Forget about going beyond it, it’s no small feat just becoming aware of it. When there‘s awareness of the energy of form pleasure seeking, the results are miraculous. There’s no telling what one may experience when form pleasure seeking takes a back seat. Your energy will go in a direction not previously known because the pleasure seeking that’s been blocking harmonic intuition falls away.
When there’s not the constant pull of satisfying form pleasure, harmonic intuition arises for the betterment of humanity. There may be a musician, painter, gardener, botanist, or even a writer inside you; who knows a book may even be written. I guarantee you this, whatever it is that comes from your harmonic intuition, it will be based in love because that’s just the way harmonic intuition manifests. I only say this because this has been my experience…
All annoyances arise from within yourself; they’re from your internal mind chaos. Without discipline, the mind will never settle nor will the annoyance of needing to reach for something externally…
The world is in a state of chaos, 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 annoyances; most people haven’t a clue this is the cause of all external chaos. We lash out at people, have road rage, try to change people, constantly seek to alter the way that we feel because we were never taught how to just be with life as it is, and be with who we are as we are. There would never be a need to have anything or anyone different if you had the ability to just be with life. If you don’t somewhat acceptance with the way things are, what makes you think that if things were different there would be acceptance; you would still have annoyances that make you reach for things externally.
There’s external reaching because you want to alter how you feel. My mind was always annoyed, and because there wasn’t an understanding of the Conditioned Mind, my annoyances weren’t understood. It didn’t matter what happened, by not having the ability to just be the mind becomes annoyed and chaos arises. Nothing causes an annoyance 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 you’re annoyed to begin with. Even if the thing is changed, without an understanding of your own mind, you will just move onto the next thing which will just cause you to become annoyed once again…
If you think an individual agenda will change the world you will be disappointed, not in your effort, but in the results of the world not changing…
A large part of the problem when it comes to the world changing is individual agendas. There’s way too much energy wasted on these; if the world is to change it has to be done as a united agenda to love. We all need to have a united heart and give that agenda to the heart of others. This agenda is from the Universe and it’s the awakened heart that realizes this. An awakened heart is not limited to certain religious belief or made up concepts, it‘s open to anyone who has a united agenda. The only way for the heart to be pure is to remove its pollutants. An example of this would be polluted water: Nothing has to be added to polluted water to return it to its natural state of purity, all that needs to be done is to remove the pollutants.
Certain religious belief and concepts are actually a deterrent a united agenda. Although religion is a way to develop the discipline needed to quiet the mind, it’s the Universe that is of unity not some dogma or doctrine made up by what someone thinks. The Universe is our guide, but the mind has to be very quiet to see where the guidance leads. I don’t mean a made up guidance to make an individual feel they’re doing their part, I mean a guidance that is united and nothing else. When you die all you leave behind is the unity you have with others. Nothing else really means that much. If the world ended tomorrow and who’s to say it won’t, what did all the individual agendas accomplish, except maybe to say “I know I did my part” whatever that means.
The only thing that matters is to remove all your pollutants so united energy is emitted to all beings; this is a Universe doing. What I share is a message of unity, but it’s not my unity, it’s the unity of the Universe. Of myself I can do nothing but self seek. It’s through the surrendering of your own agenda that the Universe will find the best possible way to use you; what that results in is up to the Universe not some individual agenda. In unity is our strength, it‘s the self-serving agenda that keeps us from being united with love…
Since the mind that tells you to do something is the same mind that questions why it was done, it’s very difficult to be sure the choices made are actually for the best…
You think every choice made is the best one. If you didn’t think that you wouldn’t make it, but just because you think it’s best that doesn’t mean it actually provides the most benefits. What’s of real importance is if the choices made are truly the best. Many choices made aren’t always the best, why do you think this is so? If you were really in control of your life, you would never make a choice that wasn’t beneficial. Dream your dreams, do your good deeds, but the question always comes back to what are the motives behind the choices made? That will determine not so much if you make the best choices, but if choices made are a benefit to all beings.
To understand this you will have to investigate your own mind and the motives behind your choices. Choices will be made based on conditioning, that’s what applies the label of best. Because most people are controlled by their self-serving conditioning, choices are usually of the self-serving variety. Most choices are based on this and they’re not the always the best and most beneficial, but they are the choices made so live with it, accept it, and move on. Just understand the motives behind them, and you will not only make the best choices, but you will also make the ones that are the most beneficial to you and to all beings…
When you can only see and attach to made up beliefs, therein lies the root to suffering. It’s in letting go of these made up beliefs that you will see there are many parts to the whole, this reveals the true emptiness of all things…
When you stay attached to made up beliefs, life becomes stagnant. Although life is still experienced, it’s seen this way except by those who don’t see life through a belief; this is the state of emptiness which needs no belief. Everything is a part of the whole so nothing is truly what a made up belief makes it out to be. When you look at a tree and apply the belief the tree is its parts, the trunk, limbs, branches, and leaves, the true nature of the tree is lost. If you can see this with the tree, you can see it with everything, including yourself. Without the belief of a you, there is no you. Most don’t even think about the parts that make up this you.
There is much freedom in seeing this because it allows for the true emptiness of all things to be revealed, and when you see there’s nothing to believe in no matter what, you are free. Another example is you give a form that keeps track of time and call it a watch. There are so many parts to it, which part is truly the watch? Made up beliefs will keep you in locked in ignorance because they will block out seeing the true nature of the emptiness in all things. With made up beliefs you can only see and attach to form and therein lies the root to all suffering. It’s in letting go of your made up beliefs that you will see there are just parts which reveals the emptiness of all things…
The value of knowing yourself is priceless because it allows the mind to settle instead of needing a fantasy to be something that you’re not…
One of the insights revealed to me is having the awareness of my own presence. What is meant by this is to be aware of who I am and not try to be who I am not. When I began writing I was thinking of ways to get the message revealed to me to people. Just by the fact that I was writing I knew there was a valuable message to share about how my view of life became different. Shortly afterwards I started posting articles on social media sites. One day I was contacted by a site to write articles for them, I thought this was a great way to get my message some exposure. After about six articles the admin of the site said people were complaining my articles were more like teachings than inspirational, the admin asked if I could make them more inspirational. I thought about it and decided I couldn’t compromise the message revealed to me. I told the admin I wouldn’t change my style; I didn’t write another article for that site.
It was important for me to stand my ground on what was revealed to me; it’s just as important today. The value of knowing who you are is priceless because it allows the mind to settle instead of needing to make up a fantasy. I don’t fantasize about being this loving spiritual head in the clouds person; I am what I am. If there was such a thing as a spiritual laborer that would be me; I’m a blue collared spiritual person. I understand many things, but my feet are always planted firmly where I am. To me, if it’s not happening where I am it doesn’t really matter all that much. I’ve learned early on not to live in the fantasy mind trying to be something that I’m not. What this allows is to not have any fantasy energy within myself and in the process just be at peace with who I am. Not everyone agrees with my style of writing or what I write, but at the end of the day it’s me who I’m with and I’m grateful there’s no reason to fantasize about being something that I’m not…
Awareness is what happens when the tools that allow it are used. Once the tools of noise are changed, awareness naturally arises because it’s what’s there…
If you think you have tools that need to be changed, there are tools that have been revealed to me to assist in doing this. I know I don’t have the only tools and by the way they actually aren’t mine, I borrowed them from people who came before me; I share them in my articles with the compassion from my heart. So if you do have tools that aren’t beneficial know this, they can be changed. This is my aspiration, nothing more. It’s not something that I strive to do, because striving to be or do something leads to suffering.
Awareness is what my new tools allowed once the old ones were changed; lack of awareness causes suffering. I sit a lot which has sharpened my tools more and more, but this also caused me heartache as it’s observed that people suffer needlessly. What I know is this; I can only change myself, but I can share the tools I use that allow me to change. Some of the tools I use are sitting, sensation of touch, guided meditations, bowl mediations, watching the breath, walking, etc, basically I use whatever allows present moment awareness. Whether you want to use any of these is up to you, but if you don’t use mine find your own. Please make sure the tools you use make your behavior a benefit to all beings. And keep sharpening your tools so you can keep on expanding your awareness and bring more love into a world that can definitely use it…
Intellect doesn’t make you wise. Wisdom is something that occurs as there’s an expansion of awareness. With this expansion of awareness wisdom arises and goes beyond intellect…
Until there’s the experience of the expansion of awareness, not much will ever be different in your life. This is because in order for things to be different there has to be the awareness why they are as they are. Awakening is not something that one makes happen, it’s something that occurs. How you will know that it occurred is by the awareness you have that your mind is based to self-serve. Very simple to see this once it occurs, very difficult to see it if it doesn’t. The key to the expansion of awareness is to know the true nature of your own mind.
One day it was revealed to me that at the core of all my issues was my own mind and nothing was ever going to be different in my life if there wasn’t awareness of this. I had to become aware why I had to always be busy before I could be aware; before awareness was experienced in my life I had to find out why there wasn’t any. Awareness doesn’t have to be attained for one to acquire it, all that’s needed is to be aware it’s not there. Once this occurs there’s a starting point that can be established so the process of awareness can expand, but for this to occur awareness has to be aware of itself…
The Conditioned Mind creates a view based in fulfilling irrelevant wanting. It’s difficult to break free of this because irrelevant wanting is reinforced daily. A mind aware of this is aware of awareness…
To me, life struggles have nothing to do with life, it’s the view based in irrelevant wanting that causes struggles; this view is controlled by the Conditioned Mind. When irrelevant wanting is fulfilled and things are going your way, there’s not much of a struggle; life is considered good. When things are going the way that you want, what causes your struggles are pushed aside. When this is done it makes the base of life centered in irrelevant wanting as you get pulled around by the Conditioned Mind like a dog on a leash.
The more control the Conditioned Mind has, the more suffering there is in your life. Sometimes it’s very subtle, but it’s there. As a matter of fact even if you’re not aware of being controlled by your irrelevant wanting, it still produces suffering. The suffering doesn’t occur because you don’t get your way, it occurs just by being in a state where the irrelevant wanting of the Conditioned Mind is in control.
The less the irrelevant wanting which just wants what you want when you want it, is the base of your view, the less you struggle with yourself and with life. This is simply because irrelevant wanting isn’t in control. When you’re unaware of this, the Conditioned Mind creates chaos by irrelevant wanting; there’s immense suffering in this. Practice being in a space of presence where there is no irrelevant wanting. In this space. you don’t have irrelevant wanting so you don’t entertain the energy that causes suffering; a free mind is energy free of irrelevant wanting…
Without awareness of the mind becoming stirred up in the absence of something to do, the Conditioned Mind will create story after story just to do something…
The most difficult thing I have ever done in my life is to learn how to do nothing in spite of the conditioning in place telling me to do. To not give in to the stirred up mind that tells me to do this, do that, reach for this or reach for that is so difficult because of the lack of discipline to do nothing and also the lack of understanding of why it’s so difficult to do nothing. Even with discipline and this understanding, it’s difficult because of all the outer influences and inner conditioning. To do nothing is not something many master. I’m not talking about sitting in meditation or taking a nap, I mean being wide awake without having to do something. For forty nine years this wasn’t noticed by me because I was never still long enough to be aware my stirred up mind. I like so many was a doer; a slave to my Conditioned Mind.
For some this doing doesn’t seem like much of an issue because the doings aren’t noticeably destructive, but make no mistake a doing is a doing and one is a slave to doing regardless how productive or subtle it may seem. Without awareness of the mind becoming stirred up in the absence of something to do, the Conditioned Mind creates story after story just to do; the stories will be based in whatever conditioning you have in place. You can only do what the conditioning in place dictates and without the stirred up mind being noticed, the conditioning is usually based in doing something for selfish reasons. Even if one wants to save the world, who says the world needs saving. Not doing allows for one to truly be an instrument of love by simply being, but this will only occur if you notice you don’t have to do…
The Conditioned Mind creates a lie seen as an imaginary void, this void is an imaginary lack of love. Until this is noticed one will constantly need to reach for something to try and fill an imaginary void that doesn’t truly exist…
For many years I had an imaginary void that was created from a lack of understanding that love was within me. That’s why I constantly reached outside myself for things, I have since come to understand that love is within. This imaginary void isn’t a true void at all, it’s emptiness; this emptiness is the essence of love. It’s where life truly happens when one is busy making other plans. By not understanding this, I spent most of my life trying to fill an imaginary void with whatever I could get my hands on. This is an endless list as to what can be used, so each individual has to investigate for themselves what that is. It’s ironic though because now most of my life is spent in the space that for so long was seen as an imaginary void; the truth of this has been revealed to me.
This imaginary void is the reason why anyone reaches for anything or wants life to be different. If this was understood for what it truly was, humanity would be much different because contentment would be the way of the world. The void is an imaginary lie of the Conditioned Mind that keeps one constantly needing the present moment to be different; it keeps one reaching to fill it. This will need to be understood if the reaching is to ever end. When it’s understood, the imaginary void transforms to love because the present moment doesn’t need to be different. When the present moment doesn’t need to be different, life reveals its true essence which doesn’t ever need to be filled with anything because the imaginary void is seen for the lie that it is…
There’s so much lack of common sense in our society today that it’s almost impossible to break its hold. The reason for this is because the things followed are attached to by the lack of common sense of “I”…
The lack of common sense will drag you along unconsciously unless there’s some awareness that it’s happening. To me, the only thing that allows this awareness are your thoughts slowing down enough to where there’s a millisecond of space between them; in this space the lack of common sense lessens. The only thing I’ve found that allows this space is being present. It’s very important to understand this because people sit for hours with other intentions and the moment they’re finished, the lack of common sense returns. Understanding this is beneficial because it allows for a clear vision which keeps the mind open to lead instead of follow. If everything stays in the head as intellect, it will be difficult to break free from the energy of this. The more attachment there is to thinking that lacks common sense, the harder it is to pull away.
One example of this is in the Bible, the masses grew and grew as the Pharisees publicly tried Jesus. As more people were pulled into the energy that lacked common sense to crucify, the lack of common sense energy intensified. If you research some of the conquerors of the past, you will see exactly how this lack of common sense works. As their reigns widened and their tyranny expanded, the lack of common sense deepened. There’s so much of this energy in our society right now, and it’s reinforced daily. It’s so hard to break free because of the attached lack of common sense of “I” that keeps it in place. This even includes many trying to help others if the focus is on “I” instead of the intuitive love of the heart. Until “I” is addressed, few people will ever truly break free from the lack of common sense energy because the attached mentality won’t allow space between your thoughts as the energy of “I” remains in control…
Your center of being is in your heart and what’s in your heart is determined by how opportunities are used to either fulfill self serving desires or being an instrument of goodness that comes from the heart…
When a heart opportunity presents itself to help a person to possibly reduce some of the suffering the Conditioned Mind produces, there’s an obligation to be a benefit to that person. But tread lightly as the person can only take advantage of the opportunity if their heart is to awaken within them. If nothing happens nothing is lost, but what if something clicks and their view of their heart changes; their gain is the worlds gain.
Understand this, you cannot give away what you don’t have, so get it and give it so the world becomes a better place. As long as people are kept in the dark of a self serving mind, darkness rules, but when there’s awareness of the heart you become a light. There is no greater reward than to be an instrument for goodness, a light in a world that has the shades pulled down. Those shades are what keeps people in their ignorance (darkness). To watch a person change right before your eyes is amazing, but the opportunity will only present if your center of being is of the heart…
We’re all products of someone else’s energy so no belief, idea, concept, or view can truly be called our own. These are all derived from some outer energy so someone else’s life is mostly lived…
The view that’s developed over the course of time makes life what it is, but this isn’t to say one is right and another is wrong or that one is better than the other. I’m just stating a fact that we’re mostly a product of someone else’s energy and what view we have in place is only there because of that energy in our life. Not one single moment that’s in the past can be changed so there’s no reason to ever give someone else’s view a second thought. Giving it a second thought is just a waste of our limited precious time, unfortunately that’s the base of the energy most people have. The past will always be the past and nothing will ever change it, but we don’t have to be controlled by it.
There comes a time in every life when you know the only place to find what you’ve been looking for is within yourself. When there’s awareness of this, what’s usually revealed is what’s been sought has always been there. This is the inner view that needs to be cultivated if you’re to ever be free of the energy that was put in place by others. There’s so much energy that molds and shapes our entire existence, until there’s awareness of this, the view in place will be someone else’s. Truly look at this, mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, teachers, friends, tv, radio, and so on, everyone of them had some energy directed on our current view; no belief, idea, concept and view can truly be called our own.
The importance of awareness is it allows the breaking free of this conditioned energy. How you do this is by sitting and allowing a settled mind to become your energy. This won’t happen overnight, but with perseverance the energy of others will slowly lose its grip and the energy of the heart (love) will become your new view. This just so happens to be who you truly are without the energy of anyone else; this is the energy that allow you to begin to truly live your own life…
Don’t let addictive reaching keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive reaching (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s addictively reached for…
If you’re always addictively reaching for something it’s because you don’t think what you have is enough; if you don’t think you have enough, there will always be something to addictively reach for. Addictive reaching isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one reaches addictively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is addictively reached for only matters to the degree in how the thing affects your life. The addiction to drink alcohol in access has consequences much different than the addiction to go to a program to stop using it. But the addictions core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of addictive reaching lull you into unconsciousness because all reaching leads to bondage in one form or another, and as stated this includes all addictions.
You might say that’s not true, an addiction to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly in the present is the only place the peace of not needing to addictively have things different is experienced. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, where’s the benefit. I say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you will find it’s not providing the benefits you thought it would; shortly afterwards more gold will be addictively reached for. Investigate this and see how addictions arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the addictive reaching of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…
