Change Resistance

When you can truly be present for change, resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom. Today can be the day that change resistance doesn’t hold you in the past…

Although most change is resisted, the reason why is because it’s not understood that resisting it keeps you in the past. If you liked cake you wouldn’t want to eat it every single day at every meal. Change will happen, but resisting it doesn’t have to be. Make this the day that change isn’t resisted. See it as the opening of a door that gets you unstuck from the complacency of what’s familiar. Let’s face it, nobody really changes unless they’re forced to. The mind loves the familiar, even if the familiar isn’t the most beneficial choice. I see it all the time in the responses to my post. All my post do is provide another perspective, but many times they’re just discounted for the view a person has in place. I lived a conditioned existence for many years so I know what I’m talking about. Not many people truly understand the Conditioned Mind so when something new is presented, resistance to it rears its ugly head; as it’s discounted you remain locked in past conditioning.

Change resistance will happen consciously or unconsciously, but what’s not grasped is although the mind is conditioned to hold onto the familiar, change is needed to grow. For years I was stuck in resistive familiar conditioning that didn’t allow change to take place. Even when it looked as though change did happen, it was only on the surface level. Surface change is a society measurement and it’s mostly a facade. Inner change is a transformation and can’t be measured. When one can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom…

Awareness Moment

Everyone has their awareness moment, but if your mind isn’t quiet enough it won’t be noticed. The question to ask is what are you willing to do so you don’t miss the next one…

There are many awareness moments throughout your life, but they go unnoticed because most of the time there is too much noise going on in our head. One awareness moment in particular for me occurred one morning at 4:00am, my neighbors dog was barking away and it woke me up. My first thought at the time was to go shut the dog up, but because I was sitting daily and developing discipline my squirrel cage mind was more settled than ever before so the next thought I had wasn’t as noisy. I said to myself that’s what dogs do, they bark” so I accepted the barking. The next thing I remember is I woke up and it was 8:00 am. I can’t tell you if the dog stopped barking, but I do know my awareness moment happened when I woke up as I noticed it. I realized for the first time ever that I had spent my entire life wanting things to be different and that this was the source of many if not all of the discontentment I ever had in my life. This awareness moment changed my view of life forever.

My life changed because no longer could I blame anything outside of me for my discontentment; the veil of ignorance was removed. Years of confusion and frustration fell away as this awareness moment was experienced; this was my moment of truth. An awareness moment is truth revealed and in truth is freedom. The more life is lived in truth the more freedom there is. Freedom from the ignorance that keeps a person locked in the prison of the Conditioned Mind. This is what an awareness moment does, it allows for acceptance of things as they really are instead of wanting them to be in the way of the make believe world of ignorance instilled by the Conditioned Mind. So it isn’t a question if you are going to have an awareness moment or not, it’s a question of are you going to notice it…

Love Gateway

The Conditioned Mind is grounded in selfishness, this is why many people don’t see the love gateway. The love gateway is always there, but it needs to be noticed so one can enter it and allow it to transform…

Love is a gateway with transforming properties, that’s why when one sees the love gateway, they’re transformed. Everyone begins life as an infant, all have the potential to love, but it’s still only an infant. You put them in an environment, nurture them and give them all kinds of tools to cope with life, but without the source of a love gateway, the transformation to a loving person will not occur. This transforming love gateway is the source of life. Go into a room filled with selfish energy and show the love gateway, there’s an instant transformation of the room. The rooms energy comes alive with color, the entire room is transformed. Without the love gateway people still exist, but their vibrance is hidden.

When one wakes up to experience this hidden vibrance, it’s the love gateway that transforms. You can be selfish your entire life, but once the love gateway is seen, for the most part selfishness goes away. It will return somewhat because of one’s conditioning, but one will never be as selfish as they once were. They can’t because there will always be awareness of love. This love portal reveals truth; it’s impossible to completely turn away from it. As stated before selfishness resurfaces because of one’s unconscious conditioning, but this love portal is always there beneath the conditioning because love is the source of our existence and the true essence of who we are. The Conditioned Mind is grounded in selfishness and the world is the way it is because not enough people see the love gateway. The love gateway is always there, it just needs to be noticed so one can enter it and allow it to transform…

Conflicted Mind

When there’s awareness of a peaceful mind and you don’t engage in what comes from a conflicted mind, it makes for a view of life few people will ever experience…

A view from a conflicted mind is very different than a peaceful one; the conflicted mind has a much different agenda than being peaceful. Every conflict known to mankind has been because of a conflicted mind. You cannot have a conflict when a mind is peaceful. Although a peaceful view aches at times, it’s where all compassion comes from. This is the understanding from a peaceful view, the conflicted (conditioned) view can’t grasp. Mind seeing is strictly from the way one is conditioned. A peaceful view arises from the space of Now. I can tell right away when someone comes from a conflicted mind view because there’s attachment with what’s being said. Usually the sentences starts with I, me or it will be said, I see what you’re saying, but.

A peaceful mind view doesn’t make you smarter than anyone, all it means is you’ve been granted the vision to see clearly. A peaceful mind view is difficult to experience because of all the distractions in place. These distractions keep you trapped to the reaching of a view from the conflicted mind. Reach, reach, reach, a peaceful needs no such reaching, it realizes its completeness as it is. When your view is peaceful, you become more of an observer than a reactor, at least that’s been my experience. I had a conflicted mind existence for many years.  Even today the old conditioning resurfaces, but because of the awareness there’s less engagement with what comes from the conflicted mind; this naturally allows a peaceful mind view to arise. When you live from here it makes for a view of life much different than most people will ever experience…

Selfish Thoughts

Sitting develops discipline so you can watch your selfish thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you’ll see the selfish thought prison of the mind…

With the emergence of the social media, there’s so much information available on the mind that it really needs to be investigated before you consider what to use to assist in your development. To see if what you’re using to develop discipline is beneficial, there can’t be any selfish thoughts that form attachments. Methods, programs, guru’s, life coaches, teachers, or any other form that’s used to keep you attached just keeps you in prison to the very thing you are trying to break free of. Just as there’s a lot of “fake news” out there today, there’s also a lot of fake information on the mind. Attachment is something that’s not truly understood by many people, and so most of the thinking out there keeps you in a selfish thought prison in some way. Those telling you to buy their book, pay for retreats run by paid speakers, or follow (instant attachment) a program are clever to a fault, with the fault being keeping you in prison.

The only thing needed is look within so a millisecond of space is created between your selfish thoughts. Once there’s awareness of this, slowly there will be more and more space; it takes nothing but awareness to create this space. The selfish thought prison that someone’s program, book, method or whatever has your answer will keep you attached to what you’re trying to break free from. I know people defend their so called guru or people they follow adamantly, but it’s only because there’s no awareness of the prison they’re in. Sit often and just watch the selfish thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you see all the selfish thoughts you’re attached to and the prison they put you in…

Desire for More

Life happens while you’re busy making plans. If you’re not careful most of it will be missed because you’ll be too busy convincing yourself the desire for more is needed…

The only thing that makes a person desire for more to enhance life is their own conditioning. Until this is realized, this conditioning will keep you in the state of desiring more. This state of desiring more is a constant for most, so this means most are missing what life truly offers. If a person is alive life will be experienced, but ask yourself is your life being fully lived or are you under the spell of your own Conditioned Mind that makes you desire more. Desiring more is the default setting of most minds; unfortunately so much of life will be missed because of this. This desiring more mind agitation doesn’t allow any contentment with what’s actually taking place.

Grab more of whatever you desire, but except for a few brief moments contentment will be fleeting. Sit and visualize having all that is desired and see how this really changes your life. It will only be a matter of time before something more will be desired. This is because regardless of what one has or what’s going on, if there isn’t some level of contentment with the way things are, you will constantly convince yourself more is desired which means the need for more will always be…

Void of Loneliness

When the mind settles the need to fill the void of loneliness with something lessens. In the process the void disappears and it’s simply because a story of a void isn’t being created…

The void of loneliness seems to get wider as one ages, but it doesn’t really, what happens is there are just less distractions so the void takes more of a hold. The natural process of life seems to be to stay busy trying to figure things out regardless of what exactly the figuring out manifest as; it certainly creates a void. There are periods in between the busyness where a person has some idle time and probably feels the void of loneliness, but it doesn’t usually last very long because the busyness of trying to figure out life returns. This busyness last most of one’s life, but there does come a time that the natural process of being busy lessens. At this stage many people experience a void that hasn’t been noticed before so it will either be addressed by looking inward or one will get busy again trying to figure out how to fill the void.

Eventually the busyness will end for whatever reason, but unfortunately for most people without the busyness the void of loneliness rears its ugly head. Many elderly people struggle to fill this void, but it’s so difficult because there just isn’t a lot going on. Kids are grown, retirement, house paid off, more time behind you than what’s left, and the list goes on. I was this way for many years, using distraction after distraction to fill this void. There were very brief periods of not needing to fill it, but these periods were far and few in between. That is until fifteenth years ago when I hit an emotional bottom. I began sitting and simply looking inward which allowed me to see the distractions of needing to attach to a story. As I sat, the mind settled and thus the needing to reach for something to fill the void of loneliness lessened. Actually it disappeared and it was simply because the story of a void wasn’t being created…

Single View Limit

No view is inherently wrong, but if you only have a single one, it limits life and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from that single view…

Changing views is what makes life different, but it doesn’t make what happens in life different, it only makes the view of what happens different. If you’re locked into a single view, this only allows one way of seeing things. The more a view is intellect based, the harder it will be for there to be a shift to see things from another view. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the intellect, it just doesn’t allow for much openness. When one sees things from a single view, it limits life to that one view. Most times this view isn’t even your own, it’s formed from someone else’s opinion, teaching, book, video, or discussion.

Being fixated on a single view keeps you trapped to the results of only that view; think about how limiting that is. No possibility of another view, always going down the same path, never allowing anything new. This is so limiting, but with only seeing things through a single view, how limiting this is will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the minds single view grip lessens can assist in possibly altering this mind set, but there has to an inkling there’s another way to see things. It’s not that any way is wrong, it’s just that having only a single view limits life, and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from the single view…

Thought Patterns

Part of the process of a settling mind is noticing the thought patterns that cause you and others harm and changing them in ways that’s beneficial to you and to all beings…

For years I had thought patterns and acted in ways that weren’t beneficial to me or anyone else. I was perplexed by this for many years because I didn’t understand why this was so. I didn’t get why anyone would do anything that wasn’t a true benefit to their life, but it goes on all the time; just watch the news. Forget it don’t watch the news because there isn’t much benefit to that. We act in ways that harm others and ourselves, to me this is truly mind boggling, but it’s where my passion to assist others in exposing non-beneficial thought patterns is derived from. I don’t blame me or anyone else for the way I developed; it‘s just the way I became conditioned. 

If there is fault anywhere it’s with society as a whole. That’s the collective conditioning as opposed to individual conditioning, but there really isn’t fault anywhere because becoming conditioned is just the way life is. The type of conditioning is what needs to be focused on. If we were all conditioned to love the world would be much different. Since this isn’t the case we need to learn to develop thought patterns that make us act and think in ways the are beneficial to our well being and our planet as a whole…

Habitual Distractions

You will be habitually distracted by what your mind approves of. Until you wake up to see this, the habitual distractions of what’s approved will remain in place and it will be the driving force of your existence…

Everything reached for is a coping mechanism approved by the habitual distractions of your own mind. Although approving different things will produce different outcomes, the core of all of the minds habitual distractions are the same; they arise from the conditioned mind. This is what causes one to constantly seek habitual distractions which aren’t real. The Conditioned Mind makes you believe they are as the ensuing behavior to fill these habitual distractions follows. The Conditioned Mind says, Hey, you need to reach for something, what is reached for depends on the conditioning in place; sit and ponder this.

Until this is understood and the diabolical Conditioned Mind is seen for what it truly is, suffering will remain because you will always need to fulfill the habitual mind distractions. There’s nothing inherently wrong with satisfaction, but when it’s the driving force of existence, it will keep the mind in a constant state of needing to fulfill habitual distractions; this won’t be seen by a mind that’s locked in this state. Only within a quiet mind state will there be awareness of this. The reason why anything is reached for is because there’s a habitual distraction by the mind for the present moment to be different; this is a habitual distraction of the Conditioned Mind. You can only be distracted by what the Conditioned Mind approves of. Unless you wake up to see this, your conditioning will remain in place and the habitual distractions will be the driving force of your existence…

Selfish Conditioning

As we grow up we’re conditioned in a selfish way that allows for our habits to be as they are. Simply put, if our selfish habits were based in love humanity would be much different…

As I look back, I see how many of my habits arose from selfish conditioning, this was just part of what was there growing up. Nothing particularly right or wrong in this, especially because there wasn’t much that could have been done differently. It’s very difficult to act in a loving manner if that’s not what’s in place growing up. Some things are learned naturally, but everything takes some conditioning associated with it. If you’re learning how to golf, at first it’s awkward with no knowledge as to the best way to swing a club, but the more you do it the more awareness of how to swing there is. This way of learning is beneficial when what you’re learning is based in love. Part of the problem is when what becomes habit isn’t based in love because unfortunately it seems natural. This is why it’s so hard to change. I knew what was right (loving) and what was wrong (selfish) growing up, but doing what was loving was not what I was conditioned to do so being selfish became natural for me; there wasn’t anybody to tell me different.

To say the least, these selfish habits caused much suffering because there wasn’t any room for much else to be seen. This is the merry-go-round most people are unknowingly on and it’s a direct result of why humanity is the way that it is. If we all grew up with our habits based in loved, humanity would be much different, it’s that simple. I know this because fifteen years ago I began seeing things differently (of love) and lo and behold things began changing. It doesn’t mean it’s always this way, but just as it is with learning to swing a golf club properly, it takes practice. And for me it’s done so the loving behavior becomes as natural as the selfish habits were…

Addictive Wanting

Don’t let addictive wanting keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive wanting (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s addictively wanted…

If you’re always addictively wanting 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 want. Wanting isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one wants addictively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is addictively wanted 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. Make no mistake though, the addictions core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of addictive wanting lull you into unconsciousness because all wanting 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 wanted. Investigate this and see how addictions arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the addictive wanting of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…