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Inner Disturbance
All disturbances arise from within yourself; they’re from your internal mind chaos. Without discipline, the mind will never settle nor will the disturbance of needing things different…
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 disturbances; 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 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 for anything to be different if you had the ability to just be with life. If you don’t neutral accept how the way things are, what makes you think that if things were different there would be acceptance; you would still have disturbances that make you reach for things externally.
There’s external reaching because you want to alter how you feel. My mind was always disturbed, and because there wasn’t an understanding of the Conditioned Mind, my disturbances weren’t understood. It didn’t matter what happened, by not having the ability to just be the mind becomes disturbed and chaos arises. Nothing causes a disturbance 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 disturbed 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 disturbed once again…
Inner Lights View
It’s the outer view of satisfying “I” that keeps you from seeing the inner light of your own innate beauty; this beauty is a result of the light that comes from looking inward…
No one is more special than another in this existence, but there are some who do see their inner light beyond the outer view. Although no one is chosen, I would say what makes this happen for some and not others is some let go of the outer view which allows them to see their inner light view. I have lived two existences, one which was from the outer view where there was much self inflicted suffering. The other is the one I’m living now which is an inner view which allows me to see my own inner light. The differences in the two views is one created suffering and was done in ignorance, the one today is lived in awareness of the ignorance. Today my view is as it is because the outer distractions don’t control me as much as they once did. I’m still in the world, but I’m not as controlled by it.
The inner light view that is seen is a by product of awareness as the outer view is let go of. This opens up space to allow wisdom and insights to occur. This opening is directly linked to the letting go of “I”. It’s “I” that attaches and is the cause of all suffering. Ever so slowing when one begins to look inward the outer distraction of “I” falls away. To me, this is what was revealed to the great mystic’s that were considered special, but all they did was look inward. This looking inward is available to all, but you will have to overcome the outer view of “I” to not be distracted from it. It’s the outer view that keeps you from seeing the inner light of your own innate beauty which can only be seen when you look inward…
Noisy Mind
Understanding the nature of a noisy mind is one of the attributes of waking up. But it’s not the noise of the world that one wakes up from, it’s the noise of your own mind…
What is a noisy mind that runs your life? The noisy mind manifests because there’s attachment to your thoughts. The thought that arises about something doesn’t matter, it’s the attachment to the thought that forms the noisy mind. To understand the noisy mind one must be aware of its attachments, desires, confusions, and the way the mind works. Without this awareness the puppet on string patterns prevail; certain disciplines can turn one inward to see this. If what you’re doing doesn’t turn you inward, you’ll remain trapped to a noisy state of mind. This is why nothing from the outside truly changes a person because anything from the outside is part of the noisy mind. A noisy mind can’t fix itself; as long as it’s reaching for something on the outside, it remains trying to fix itself and thus it remains noisy. Until this truth is seen, things will stay as they are because nothing is being done to make it different.
We can only go beyond the noisy view if there’s awareness of it. What this means is one has to develop mindfulness of what they’re doing as it’s being done so there‘s awareness of what’s being done. If you know what you’re doing as it’s being done, it leaves little room for the noisy mind to arise. Mindfulness is probably the most important discipline to develop as it anchors you in the moment of what’s being done. A noisy mind only occurs when one lives in the story of a past or future. This noisy mind made constructs keeps the noise active. The present moment can be seen without making it a story even though it passes as quickly as it arises; the past and future can never truly be seen without a story. Because of the lack of discipline to be present, most people live a noisy mind existence…
Addictive Reaching
Don’t let addictive reaching keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive reaching (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s reached for…
If you’re always addictively reaching 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 addictively reached for. 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. 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 reaching lull you into unconsciousness because all reaching leads to bondage in one form or another.
You might say that’s not true, reaching 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 addictive reaching arises 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…
Universal Heart Energy
To go beyond Conditioned Thinking one must go beyond the noise in the head. You cannot live from the heart when the noise in the head is in control…
Be of stillness and you will be of your heart. Living from the heart is not only real, it’s also the only place a person will ever find true peace. The mind will have to settle enough to a point where you can experience the difference between living from the head and living from the heart. Both exist, but we are conditioned to live from our head. We make our thoughts our entire world. They form our belief system and because they are strictly from the head, our thoughts become the base of our existence. This is our dilemma; we have been programmed to believe that we have to think and we are our thoughts; this is what controls most people. This type of living is all in the head. The heart gets locked out with the head as the base of our existence.
When you can get beyond this noise in your head you will start to experience what it means to live from your heart, but this isn’t a thought, it’s purely a place of stillness. The experience of living from the heart can’t really be explained; it’s an experience. It’s like trying to define God or Love, any word used doesn’t really do it justice. It gets watered down trying to use words to describe it. Find your place of stillness and you will find your heart. It is there, but you have to be completely committed to it if you are to experience it. A little stillness will not do. Only committed stillness will allow for the heart to overcome the head. Practice, practice, practice and one day your heart will open to a world that goes beyond anything the mind can conjure up. In stillness all of life arises, and all of life arises from the heart, but it’s not of our heart that this occurs, it’s the heart of the Universe. We are just a manifestation of the Universal Heart and it will only be in stillness that we will understand this from your own heart and experience living life from here…
Obsessive Mind
Although the pleasures of the world take on many forms, it’s the obsessive mind that makes one seek them. This obsession can only be quieted in stillness because when the mind is still no obsession exist…
The obsession aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it’s almost always in pleasure seeking mode. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse form of pleasure. The mind wants to obsessively keep all the pleasure thoughts even if this causes its own destruction; it spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up to the same light, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it, the reason for the doing is strictly to satisfy some obsessive form of pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of how the mind has been obsessively conditioned.
The obsessive pleasure seeking mode is not one which is in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think seeking pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle, it loses its grip on you. True pleasure is in stillness not in things; the pleasure of stillness is not the same pleasure that the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in obsessive lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. There are many pointers that speak of quieting an obsessive mind that only stillness can satisfy. This obsession is the self seeking pleasure of the world. This is the obsession the world creates; it is never truly satisfied. It’s only in stillness that the obsessive mind is satisfied. Not because it’s given something, but because in stillness an obsession never materializes so there is no obsessive mind that needs to be satisfied…
Open Mind State
When a person awakens, an open mind state is provided which allows a truthful view of your actions. With this open mind state you become aware if your actions are truly beneficial…
Having an open mind state allows for the ability to decipher the immediate effects of your actions and your current view. An open mind state doesn’t allow a delusional mind state to arise. In seeing delusion for what it is and its controlling characteristics, you just may be able to pause for a millisecond. If this isn’t seen, these characteristics will continue their delusional mind control.
Observe the mind state of delusion and its polar opposites, truth, generosity, love, and wisdom; these are mind states most people fluctuate between. With an open mind state you see how your actions and the associated consequences are linked. What happens first is you can decipher the mind state associated with the action, and second it’s seen if the associated action is beneficial. It’s very easy to see rage and its association with the mind state of anger. It doesn’t take much intelligence to see how this action isn’t beneficial to anyone. Without awareness of this one remains trapped in the mind state of rage and hence the associated actions. Intelligence has no bearing on this whatsoever.
It also works this way with the action of giving. Giving with no attached expectation is an action associated with the mind state of generosity. You can definitely see how this action benefits everyone; to me this is what an awakening is. One isn’t rendered white as snow because of becoming awake. No one among us can cast the first stone, but by the mind settling your view becomes open and you become aware of your actions and the associated mind state of those actions. It can then be seen that your actions are based in truth and are a benefit not only to yourself, but to all beings…
Heart Truth
There’s existence through made up stories or there’s the bigger picture beyond the stories where one is free because there’s a heart truth in the way things are…
When the mind is settled existence becomes truthful instead of reliance on your limited stories. There’s a deep truth of a settled mind; it’s in this settling that you see the existence of life itself. When you’re in this mind state, the everlasting truth of the heart is there to quiet the mind noise which is the cause of all doubly.
A mind that’s settled allows you to live from a truthful heart. This connects you with the goodness of life, your own internal goodness, and the goodness of all beings. The connection is already there, it’s just not known how to be aware of it. The only reason there isn’t awareness of this is because the Conditioned Mind blocks the truth that arises from the heart; these blocks allow all kinds of made up nonsense.
When it’s learned to discipline an undisciplined mind your blocks slowly subside; what naturally remains is a deep unyielding bond with your truthful heart. This bond is what’s there beyond the noise of a Conditioned Mind. In this space there’s truthfulness because with a settled mind it’s known who you truly are. A truthful heart allows the mind to settle so you’re not relying on your made up stories to live life. When there’s truthfulness, life is lived in the most beneficial way; as the beautiful loving being that you truly are…
Dangling Prize Mind
A mind distracted by dangling prizes can’t quiet itself regardless of what’s used as a distraction. Dangling prizes reinforce the distractions because it blocks out the awareness they are there…
If a distracted dangling prize mind is in control and running your life, it doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to be aware they are there. It’s such a dangling prize world because most people think their answers are outside them when the answers are within. What the dangling prizes actually are and how they’re created is by not being aware that they’re not needed. With a mind that’s conditioned to go after dangling prizes, you have to constantly look for them, hence the distractions. This is how Conditioned Mind dangling prize distractions are formed and how they block awareness of your inner presence. It’s distractions created because if you understood them, the need to look for them would be non existent and so would the dangling prize distractions.
The ability to understand the dangling prize mind lies in being aware they’re there, but it’s not something that’s going to happen on its own. It’s a beautiful thing the awareness of the worlds dangling prizes are in your hands and that it’s totally up to each individual how much awareness there is in your life. A little quiet equates to a little awareness so it’s up to each individual to do what’s necessary to become more aware of the dangling prize mind distractions. As you become more aware of being in the present moment the dangling prize distractions lessen and what remains is inner presence. If you’re waiting for anything else, you’ll be waiting a very long time as it won’t happen while your dangling prize mind distractions are in control…
Peaceful Awareness
Don’t allow anyone to take you from your peace. Let them think they’ve won, their satisfaction will be short lived before needing to win again; a solid foundation of peaceful awareness will last a lifetime…
We as humans are all created equal. It’s not that some have weaker minds than others, but some are more aware of themselves and this makes it seem that some have strengths that others don’t possess. The more unaware one is of themselves, the more you will be dragged around by the occurrences that happen in life; peaceful awareness is what one awakens to. It’s not an awakening to the great secrets of the Universe, but more so what pulls you from peaceful awareness. I would say in my own case one area where I’ve become more aware is in not allowing other people’s actions to pull me from my place of peace. At times my initial reaction is to get annoyed, but it’s usually realized very quickly that most people know not what they do so to allow their actions to control me is on me. Because all humans come into the world basically the same (unconditioned) it’s the level of conditioning that makes one appear weak or strong, but one is just more aware of their conditioning than another person.
Let the other person think they’ve won, that they’ve gotten the better of you. Except to the ego it means nothing; this is how unconscious energy is squashed. This doesn’t change the other person, but it does change you. It stops all the stories associated with the situation which festers as unconsciousness; I’m going to say this to them, or they are wrong, or don’t they know who I am, this is all the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind (ego) and nothing good comes from this energy. So as I said, let the other person think they’ve won, but you will know in your heart what the truth is because of remaining in your place of peace and not giving in to the Conditioned Mind nonsense. After all one can only be taken from their place of peace when it’s allowed and it only occurs when the ego is in control…
Deceptive Void
The Conditioned Mind creates a deceptive lie seen as a void, this void is a lack of love. Until this is realized, one will constantly need to reach for something to try and fill this deceptive void even though it doesn’t truly exist…
For many years I had a deceptive void in me that was created from a lack of love. That’s why I constantly reached for things to fill it, I have since come to understand this. This deceptive 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 a deceptive 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 a deceptive void; the truth of this has been revealed to me.
This deceptive void is the reason a person reaches for anything or wants life to be different. If this was understood humanity would be much different because contentment would be the way of the world. The void is a deceptive lie of the Conditioned Mind and it keeps one constantly needing the present moment to be different so it keeps you reaching to fill it. This will need to be understood if the reaching is to ever end. When it’s understood, the deceptive 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 deceptive void is seen for the lie that it is…
Doing Mind Limits
A doing mind is a mind that has limited conditioned ideas based on a sense of self. Because of this there’s no space to just be…
As long as the doing mind is in control, there will be limited peace because at the core of this doing is the sense of self. The sense of self may be the hardest concept to let go of because it’s interwoven with just about every thought. Even though it has also been in place since existence began, it’s not the sense of self that limits, it’s the attachment to it. I have a sense of self simply because I exist, but the attachment to it has lessened significantly in the last few years. This has opened enough space to allow being instead of doing. This is not to say I don’t sometimes attach to the sense of self, but never like the first forty nine years of my life.
People who question what I write about don’t realize there’s an understanding of how my mind works because I’ve sat and investigated why I reacted and did the things that I did. Very few truly investigate their Conditioned Mind and this leads to doing mind limits. This doesn’t make me better than anyone knowing this, but by having an understanding of the lies that limited and controlled me for so many years, it allows me to not attach to them. I would have to say therein lies the difference between having doing mind limits or being free to just be. This also creates the difference between doing mind limits or the unlimited expansion of being…
Universal Energy
Universal energy points to the heart. The energy of the heart is the energy that’s known; this is when we’re connected. Universal Love is the true energy that transforms…
Make a stand for what is known of the heart, not what is believed in the head. Experience truly becomes a loving principle because it becomes what is truly known in the heart. A belief is not truly known, it’s just some story made up by the Conditioned Mind to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. When
you think the story is true and you try and make others see it, issues arise. You can never know truth, yours or anyone’s else’s unless it’s experienced; at which time it’s no longer a belief, it becomes a fact for the experiencer.
For most of my life I didn’t understand this so I didn’t do the things that were conducive to my spiritual well being; if I don’t understand me, there’s no way I can understand you. I cannot know what someone’s path is even if I am walking side by side with them. When I share my experience, it’s not to force something on someone, it’s to tell what I’ve experienced. In the process if it assist someone on this journey called life, so be it. The Universe has the energy to transform lives, not individuals. When the individual thinks it’s them, there in lies the issue. Become the instrument of Universal energy and your heart will be your guide
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