Influence Yourself

We’re all products of influences so no one can state a belief, idea, concept, or view can truly be called their own. These are all derived from some outer influence so you mostly live someone else’s life…

The view that’s developed over the course of time makes life what it is, but this isn’t to say one view 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 our 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, unfortunately that’s the base of the view most people have. The past will always be the past and nothing will ever change it, but we don’t have to view life from there.

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. This is the inner view that needs to be cultivated if you’re to ever be free of a view that was put in place by others. There are so many influences that mold and shape your entire existence and 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 influence on our current view; no belief, idea, concept and view can you truly call your own.

The only thing that makes me different than you is I’m more aware of my conditioning. I’m not less conditioned, just more aware, but it’s in this awareness that it can be seen how the influences have controlled. 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 influences in place will slowly lose the grip and the influences of the heart (love) will become your new conditioning. 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 live your own life…

Energy is Life

Life is energy more so than it is form. Form can be individualized energy cannot, so when the form of “I” isn’t conceptualized life can be lived as it truly is…

Although it’s better to give than to receive, the less deserving we think a person is to receive the more difficult it is to give. What I mean by this is the more unconscious a person is, the harder it is to not judge them as with each judgement it becomes harder to not place them in a convenient category of this or that. Any label blocks you from giving love and it makes you see people as individuals, this is a block to loving them unconditionally.

To not be drawn into this energy takes much discipline. It’s so easy to hate, it seems almost effortless, but it’s not. It really takes a tremendous amount of energy to hate, but unfortunately this is the energy of unconsciousness. That’s a problem because this is the energy that far too many people are guided by in their everyday decisions, but regardless of this and as difficult as it is, if you’re truly conscious you’ll do what’s necessary to love all beings because it will be what’s in your heart. The only reason there’s fluctuation between love and unawareness is because you’re not fully conscious; the more conscious you are the less you’ll cause harm because the less you will want to…

The Slightest Push

An awakening can be likened to a snowball on a hill, nothing else is needed than the initial push to get it rolling, and it will just keep on building momentum until something gets in the way to stop it…

Once a snowball is placed at the top of a hill and it’s pushed ever so slightly, it naturally begins rolling in the only direction it can go and its momentum builds without one ounce of doing. It does take some effort in the beginning to get it going, but not much more than a little push. It’s this way when one wakes up from the sleep of unconsciousness, there’s not much that needs to be done for the awakening to expand, as a matter of fact most people don’t wake up fully because of trying to hard. If you are awake the push has already occurred so all effort is futile. So many books, programs, videos, and whatnot and although they make one knowledgeable, none of it makes you anymore awake than the initial push.

This is one of the reasons I emphasis using the body as an anchor in the awakening process, because it doesn’t take effort, it only takes being with what’s actually here, which is the present moment. All kinds of stories can be made up about what needs to be done, but it doesn’t expand the initial push one bit. Either you are awake in the quietness of the present moment or you’re asleep in the noise of somewhere else, the initial push is what reveals this truth. And as with the snowball, nothing else is needed than the initial push to get it rolling, and it will just keep on building momentum until something gets in the way to stop it…

Unable to Say No

If you’re conditioned to look on the outside for answers you’ll get locked into constantly reaching for something for fulfillment and it’s because of being unable to say no that there’s a need to constantly reach…

The other day I received a call from a place where I previously purchased pain medication I was once addicted to. I was asked if I wanted to order some more, I simply said no. The same thing happened to me with a gambling site I once frequented. It’s also been years since I’ve done any online gambling, but I received a call from this gambling site and when I said I don’t gamble online anymore, the person on the phone asked, why not? I simply answered, I don’t need to, he also said “Oh” and hung up.

The point I’m trying to convey is it wasn’t always this way for me. There was a time when I needed to reach for all kinds of things because I was unable to say no. I was conditioned to look outside myself for answers and did so accordingly. When I was taking the pain medication it wasn’t for a physical issue, I was taking it strictly to satisfy an inner craving; this inner craving was at the root of my reaching. A person with this inner craving will be unable to say no to the craving, mostly because it isn’t understood. Without this understanding, if one thing isn’t available something else will be used in its place.

The ability to not give in to these inner cravings began when I started sitting. This allowed me to develop the necessary discipline to see the fallacy my own mind was creating, the fallacy being I needed to reach outside myself to be complete; a completeness that can only be known by not reaching outside yourself. These inner cravings are at the core of why anything is needed and reached for to begin with and until this is truly understood and the mind settles, you may never be able to say no to your arisen cravings…

Lying Mind

When truth is revealed no longer do you listen to the lying mind because it’s understood you shouldn’t believe everything your mind tells you because most of it isn’t true…

Don’t believe everything your mind tells you because it will tell you things that just aren’t true. It will tell you the past is real yet the only place the past exist is in the lying mind. It will tell you to fear, yet the only thing you have to fear is fear itself. It will tell you to hold onto the belief of a self that’s a solid entity, but the form that’s being occupied needs no such attachment to exist, as it is always changing in a constant state of flux. It will tell you I think therefore I am, but thinking has nothing to do with I am. It will make up beliefs that everything desired on the outside is needed, but if none of those desires come to pass, nothing happens. Even if they do get fulfilled, the satisfaction is fleeting at best. Then there’s the thing the lying mind calls ego, this is like the bogeyman under the bed, it exist until you look under the bed; there’s also isn’t a need to get rid of the ego because it never existed, except to the lying mind.

There’s the image in the mirror who was given a name for identification purposes, we think we are that name. If the name is different we think we are someone else, but that’s only to the lying mind because the form remains the same. There will be many lies held onto that just aren’t true, but unfortunately the more you attach to them, the truer they seem. To truly be free, the lying mind will have to be exposed, this doesn’t mean you find out you don’t exist, you find out you don’t exist in the way your lying mind tells you. When this truth is revealed, no longer will you listen to the lying mind because you’ll understand, you shouldn’t believe everything your mind tells you because most of it just isn’t true…

Universal Guidance

Our true guidance is from Universal Love. If you think it’s something else you have “missed the mark” which by the way is the definition of sin…

It seems to me that my life has been a preparation that has led me to this exact moment. Growing up I always had these feelings of not quite belonging to any particular group of friends. I seemed to bounce from group to group until I settled with the so called, social outcast, the loners, the people who partied; eventually that got tiresome. I was always looking for things to be different, but I never understood why. This yearning to find my place in life, was all part of my preparation. Without this yearning I would have never have learned what has led me to this moment. I would probably still be alive, but my usefulness to the Universe would be much different.

This path of preparation has had more downs than I care to remember, but they were all part the process of molding me to be the useful being that I am at today. This is what it seems that my preparation has been for. None of this had to do with me personally, but it has everything to do with my usefulness to other people. This usefulness is manifested as the Love that was always missing from my life. This is what anyone else who has had this yearning and tried to satisfy it with some kind of substance or object from the outside is reaching for. Although the preparation doesn’t seem like it is something that I would have ever chosen, it was necessary if I was to get to a place of unconditional usefulness. When we rightly relate ourselves to God than God becomes our guide. If not we will always have a yearning, we will always be looking, and we will be always be guide-less, so go and sin no more…

Happy New Day

It’s the start of a new year, but it isn’t time for a resolution or big expectations because that’s just a method the Conditioned Mind uses to set itself up to fail. Today is always a new day…

Don’t say last year was a tough year, unless you want to carry that burden around with you. That’s up to you, but it will not change anything. Life can only be lived right now. It doesn’t mean there can’t be plans, but the actions can only be applied in the present moment regardless of what the future holds or what happened in the past.

Life is one continuous journey, The mind has been conditioned to believe somewhere other then here is a better place, but here is where life occurs no matter what you’re doing or what resolution is made. As you wait for the results of your resolution to make your life complete, it’s passing you by. Life will never be any more complete than it is right now. This is something that needs to be realized if you’re to truly live your life and not wait for it to be perfect (perfect only in our mind). So enjoy the life that’s happening right now instead of thinking it needs to be in some other way. Happy New Year and please Live the life that you’re given, because it’s the only life you’ll ever have…