Depth of Stillness

The depth of your stillness is what determines the depth of your love. Without depth there is just what’s on the surface and this flip flops so easily because of the dependency on things…

The deeper the stillness is your foundation, the more love will be emanated in your life, and obviously the more love you have, the more love you can give. Also the deeper the stillness, the less your conditioning is in control. Go to the depth not known and go to a place of purity. This will take a tremendous amount of understanding of why you aren’t this way already. The transformation that occurs with this understanding from the head to the heart will determine the depth of your love. It’s essential to get to the heart, but without stillness one remains stuck in the head.

I’ve seen this played out first hand in my life so to me, when love comes from the head it benefits no one. It’s the heart of love that’s pure. The head is usually filled with some mind made concept of love; there are many conditions put on this type of love. This is the cause of the flip flopping between the head and heart. The lack of stillness creates a flip flop foundation so our emotions are very easily swayed by things; the things that sway us are allowed to occur because our emotions are that of an immature child. Why else are we swayed when things don’t go our way? Does not a child act in the same manner? Do not we as adults, act in the same manner of stamping our feet when we don’t get our way?

The purity of a child is different than the immature emotions of a child, so learn to go deeper than the surface and you’ll see a level of maturity not previously known. When this does become known, your life will be much more stable because you won’t be so easily swayed by the nonsense the world provides as a foundation. With a solid and mature foundation based in stillness which is beyond what happens on the surface, flip flopping ceases as the love of the heart is how life is lived…

Space of Love

To be inside the space of love the heart must be unlocked. Although this may not change what’s outside the space, it does change you from viewing life from “I” to viewing life from love…

Think of it as though life is a fenced in backyard, when you love you’re inside the fence and when you don’t it means you’re living mostly from “I” which automatically puts you outside the fence. Outside the fence was how the first forty nine years of my life were lived. Occasionally I was inside the space of the fence, but not very often. This was because my “I” conditioning kept my heart locked which didn’t allow me to access the fence. It’s nearly impossible to enter the fence from “I” because “I” is the lock that keeps that heart closed and thus the opening to the fence closed. When you see this, it gives you something tangible to work with which allows the heart to be unlocked. With an unlocked heart one can be inside the space of love more often than not.

Life and love are synonymous, but only when inside the space of love, and you can only be inside when the heart is unlocked and opened. The locks of the world that keep you outside the fence are many. Think of it as though you are on the outside of a house looking in through a window. Love unlocks the heart to see things that were previously unseen; this is what opens you to see as if you were inside the house looking out. When you’re on the inside looking out it’s because the heart is unlocked. With the heart unlocked it may not change what’s around you, but it does change your space from viewing life from “I” to viewing life from love…

Thinking Habits

Part of the process of a settling mind is noticing the incessant thinking habits that cause you and others harm and changing them in ways that are beneficial to you and to all beings…

For years I had thinking habits 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 thinking habits is derived from. I don’t blame me or anyone else for the way I developed; it‘s just the way I became habitually 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 thinking habits that make us act and think in ways the are beneficial to our well being and the planet as a whole…

Keep Your Side Clean

Life will always take care of itself regardless if you think you’re its self appointed spokesperson and you’re going to set everyone straight who doesn’t conform to the way you think things should be…

Some people are really full of themselves and all they can see is their own righteousness. They will hurt others and justify it as it being for the greater good, but it’s only their assessment of what that greater good is. I would say the greater good is to love, but that’s just for me; I do know this, there is no love in judging. No matter how right you think you are, love is always tolerant, it will never hurt another. If someone is doing something that you think is wrong, life will be their judge, but people feel it’s their right to take matters into their own hands. It’s utter nonsense to think I know what’s best for you when I’m not even sure I know what’s best for me, but how we can justify and really be full of ourselves in taking the inventory of others.

It’s truly amazing how quick people are to judge others, and the judgements are opinion based and only deal with what the person judging thinks. It matters little to the one judging how they affect the person as long as they can get it off their chest. After all, they have deemed themselves life’s spokesperson and they have an obligation to help others see the errs of their ways, so they think. Who is to say that what a person thinks is right for everyone and what makes one person think they know what’s best for someone else. I know I will never tell you how dirty your side of the street is because mine is also dirty; it’s just part of being human, but it amazes me how many people think they’re justified and perfect enough to tell someone else what’s right and what’s wrong. There’s only what’s right for you no matter how dirty someone else’s side of the street may be to you…

Trust Life

Happiness is a by product of love. It’s not something that can be forced to happen, it will only happen when you trust life to produce it as opposed to trying to force it…

You can try and force things to happen in your life, or you can simply trust life. When you trust life it produces a much different living arrangement than trying to force things. Instead of the constant tugging, there is a certain ease and peace when you trust. The tugging is produced directly from trying to force things. Trust produces the opposite, both are within your grasp, it’s a matter of what you truly want in your life; things your way or peace.

You will know what you want by what you pay attention to. The things that you pay attention become the base of life. If you always pay attention to wanting the pleasures of life than self serving energy will be your base. If you pay attention to how can you bring more love into the lives of all beings than that energy will be your base. To be free of the self serving mind is to stop trying to force happiness and trust life to produce it. To cultivate a mind that looks how it can love more produces a life that’s based in trust. When you stop trying to force your happiness, that’s when you will truly be happy because it’s a by product of love not of want…

Chasing Pleasure

Chasing pleasure is so deep and misunderstood that it actually leads one down the road to their own destruction; until the mind settles chasing pleasure will continue to rule…

I’m not writing this to say there’s anything inherently wrong with pleasure, but when it becomes the driving force of chasing it, it will most likely lead to destructive behavior in some way. This also leads to the destruction of society as a whole because society is a sum total of its individuals. If you don’t think this is true, please take your head out of the sand and look around. Understanding what’s reached for to satisfy the thirst of pleasure is where the difference lies in one being at peace or constantly chasing the next pleasure. For me there was always a chase for peace which was pleasure in disguise and it was always sought, but what I used in chasing is where my misgivings were derived from. My tools to quiet this became different some years ago, prior to that everything I used was of the material plane, today this isn’t the case because I understand my pleasure chasing mind enough to see the illusionary urgings arise.

Learning how to manifest a pleasure state of being without anything from the material world is key if you are to ever be free from the conventional pleasure chasing mind and open the doorway to true pleasure; pleasure that’s not dependent on anything from this world. When this is truly understood, pleasure will no longer be chased in a destructive way and you will actually be allowed to live life in the most pleasurable way possible; without attachment…

I AM

 

Life Objective

Life has its own objective. When the mind is quiet enough there’s alignment with it, but this is not to satisfy a self created made up objective, it’s strictly for the betterment of the Universe…

What’s done is mostly because the Conditioned Mind tells you what to do. You wake up in the morning and the day begins. You do whatever it is that you do and around sixteen hours later it’s time to go to sleep so you can do it again tomorrow. We say tomorrow, but the reality of life is it’s one continuous journey, there aren’t really any breaks in it. Time, days, years, decades, centuries, are all made up concepts. They’re needed to the extent of establishing some structure in life, but we hold onto them way too much; actually they’re allowed to control life.

I’m not saying nothing matters, but except for a few not many really know the objective of life and what truly matters. Life objectives are relatively unknown, sure we can make things up and as a species we’re actually very good at it. Life objectives can be made up about helping others, or loving others, raising a family, being kind, awakening, working on this or that, or whatever it is that‘s used to justify existence, but the bottom line is one day just like that and without permission, BANG existence ends. In the blink of an eye it’s over and whatever it is that’s used to make up a life objective is let go of it. So simply be with what is and you’ll be with the life objective of what’s there; no story needed…

Influenced View

Everyone is influenced by something in their life so no belief, idea, concept, or view can truly be called your own. Most lives are shaped by some outer influence so a life is lived that’s not truly your own…

The influenced 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 influences and what view we have in place is only there because of those influences in your life. Not one single moment that’s in the past can be changed so there’s no reason to ever give that view a second thought. Giving it a second thought is just a waste of our limited precious time, but unfortunately that’s the influenced view most people have. The past will always be the past and nothing will ever change it; it doesn’t have to influence your life.

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 that what’s been sought has always been there. Your own influenced view needs to be cultivated if you’re to ever be free of a view that was influenced by others. There are so many influences that mold and shape 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.

The only thing that will make your influenced view different is awareness of how the influences have controlled you. This is the importance of awareness, it allows the breaking free of this conditioning. How you do this is by sitting and allowing a settled mind to become your influence. This won’t happen overnight, but with perseverance the influenced view in place will slowly lose its grip and the influence of the heart (love) will become your own. This just so happens to be who you truly are without the influences of anyone else, and this is the view where you can begin to truly be your own influence.

Present Moment Harmony

When you’re in harmony with life it’s because you’re in harmony with the present moment. When you’re not in harmony with life, it’s because the Conditioned Mind has created duality and is in control…

Spirituality isn’t magical, it’s everyone’s true essence. Being alive is being spiritual and regardless if there‘s awareness of this or not, it doesn’t take away from the fact that your true nature is spiritual. Let’s take a practical approach to spirituality so the blocks to awareness can be taken out. Look at one of the most common realities of life, to me that would be everything that happens does so in the present moment. This is such a common reality of life, but it’s so hard to be in harmony with the present moment. We hear it all the time, live in the now, all we have is now, be present, yet it is so hard to remain present.

The point of this is the mind will not remain in harmony with the present moment on its own, there’s a need to develop some discipline so harmony becomes the minds default way. It’s only because of the way the mind has been developed to begin with that duality occurs. Understand this, the mind will not get a different view on its own, it needs help. Being in harmony with the mind is where you become aware of your spiritual nature because when you can remain in harmony with the present moment, you’re in harmony with the Universe. If there’s the development of awareness of what takes a person out of harmony with the present moment, it will be revealed what takes you out of harmony with life itself. When this is understood, the default setting of your mind will be in harmony with its true nature of the spirit because you’ll be in harmony with the only thing that exist; the present moment…

Focused Attention

A person’s focused attention determines how existence manifest. If it’s constantly directed towards self you will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from your self, you’ll remain in captivity…

For me the key to being liberated from the captivity of self is focusing my attention away from greed and lustful thoughts. When the mind gets stuck in these thoughts to be liberated it needs to become unstuck. What makes it get stuck is energy mostly attention on satisfying self in some way. Pay attention to the sensations of the body, mind, and mental formations. This is a direct path to how to become liberated from suffering. 

Liberation from suffering is not pain free, it’s learning to be with the pain that arises. You cannot hide from what’s happening, you can only focus your attention away from it. To no longer have your energy engaged in satisfying the self is where the path of liberation leads to. How this is done is by stopping the focused attention of self and directing your attention towards what will liberate you from it. The self is there and it has been given a name, it has so many other different labels attached to it, but all create bondage because of the mere fact of the attachment it has to itself. Liberation is in understanding the lies of self, it isn’t in creating a concept or belief in something. 

You can only be free when your attention is on what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because of the conditioning of the self; constant vigilance is needed for the liberation from self. You’re alive so you exist, but it will be your focused attention that determines the extent of the liberation you have from self and that will be the determining factor in how your existence manifests…

Unaware Problems

The unaware mind loves to create problems. Until this is seen it will continue to do so even though everything in life is impermanent, especially the unaware problems that are created…

Problems are created by an unaware mind that doesn’t accept what’s occurring in the present moment. It wants the present moment different and it actually makes you believe if it was different all would be well; this is the fallacy of an unaware mind. All is as it is right now, but because of one’s conditioning it’s not seen so the unaware mind has to make a problem so it has something to do. I’ve always had a tendency to make everything that occurs like it’s the end of the world, and although I don’t attach to this as I once did, at times the unaware end of the world view is my first reaction.

The other day I was washing clothes and when they were finished I put them in the dryer. When they were almost finished drying I opened the dryer to pull out a shirt, there were blue spots on it and also on some of the other clothes. I pulled them all out and found a ink pen in the dryer. There was also blue ink all over the dryer. The first response was my usual unaware end of the world reaction that the clothes were ruined. I took a step back and took a deep breath. I grabbed a shirt and cleaned a spot, the ink came out. I then cleaned the inside of dryer. I rewashed all the clothes; all the spots came out. An hour and a half later I folded all the clothes and it was like nothing happened. This happens with most things in life, and although I don’t concern myself too much with reactions, the attachment to what occurs is what’s observed. The clothes event can be substituted with anything. The unaware mind loves to create problems and until this is seen it will continue to do so even though everything in life is impermanent, especially the unaware problems that are created…

Mind Harmony

If things aren’t done that allows harmony with life, for it to change knowing why this is so is of the utmost importance. Knowing your own mind will go a long way in allowing harmony to occur with life…

Just observe how the mind justifies everything it does. If it has never been trained to be still it will create problems just so it has something to do. It will say to do something and turn around and question why it was done. The Conditioned Mind should be treated as a separate entity as if it’s an enemy because upon further review it will be seen that it is to a degree, it’s not not truly the enemy, it’s the conditioning that’s the true enemy.

Self destructive behavior isn’t the harmonic nature of the mind, it’s only conditioned to be this way and it’s the collective and the individual who consciously or unconsciously puts these habitual mind patterns in place; knowing your own mind is a way to undo what you yourself have done. This knowing of the mind is not about the great secrets of the Universe of becoming known, it’s about getting an understanding of why the things that are done don’t put you in harmony with life. When this is known, why you respond to things a certain things will be known. After all, if you don’t do the things in your life that allows harmony with it, you should at least know why this is so…

Fulfilling Useless Desires

The Conditioned Mind creates a view based in fulfilling useless desires. It’s difficult to break free from this because of the useless daily actions that are reinforced. A mind aware of this is aware of awareness…

I understand life struggles have nothing to do with life, it’s a view based in fulfilling useless desires that cause struggles; this is because this view is controlled by the Conditioned Mind. When useless desires are 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 useless desires as you get pulled around by the Conditioned Mind like a puppet on a string.

The more this occurs 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 useless desires, they still produce suffering. The suffering doesn’t occur because you don’t get your way, it occurs just by being in a state where the useless desires of the Conditioned Mind are in control.

The less useless desires (which is just wanting what you want, when you want it) are the base of your view, the less you struggle with yourself and with life. This is simply because useless desires aren’t in control. When you’re unaware of this, the Conditioned Mind creates chaos by useless desiring; there’s immense suffering in this. Practice being in a space of no mind, with no mind there is no useless desiring. When you don’t have useless desiring, you don’t want. When you don’t want you don’t entertain energy that causes suffering; a free mind is energy free of useless desires…

Mentally Corrupt Energy of "I"

There’s so much mentally corrupt energy in our society today that it makes it very difficult to break its hold. The reason for this is because the thing being held onto is attached to by the mentally corrupt energy of “I”…

The mentally corrupt energy of “I” will drag you along unconsciously unless there’s some awareness that it’s there. 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 pull of a mentally corrupt energy of “I” 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 mentally corrupt energy returns. Understanding this is beneficial because it allows for a clear vision which keeps the mind open to truth instead of mental corruption. If everything stays in the head as corrupt intellect, it will be difficult to break free from the energy of this. The more attachment there is to the mentally corrupt energy of “I” the harder it is to pull away.

An example of this is how the masses grow during a riot. As more people are pulled into the mentally corrupt energy to riot, the energy intensifies. If you research some of the riots of the past, you will see exactly how the mentally corrupt energy works. As the riots widen and tyranny is expanded, the mentally corrupt energy deepens. There’s so much of this energy in our society right now, and it’s reinforced daily. It’s so hard to break free of it because of the attached mentally corrupt energy of “I” that keeps it in place. This includes trying to help others if the mentally corrupt energy of “I” is focused on instead of the intuitive love of the heart. Until “I” is addressed, few people will break free from its corrupt energy because the attached mentality won’t allow space between your thoughts as the corrupt energy of “I” remains in control…

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…