Recognizing Your Conditioning

Without recognizing your conditioning, you’ll be blindly controlled by it. It will say jump and you will jump, and most likely you’ll ask how high…

If you want to understand your mind you will need for it to settle so you can observe it. Whatever you think and reflect upon, that is what becomes the inclination of the mind and hence this is what becomes your conditioned actions. If there is no settling, there’s very little chance for the mind to be observed. As conditioning is formed it becomes second nature, there’s very little observation in this mind activated action. These conditioned actions are different for everyone, but their root is common. All conditioning arises in some way to seek satisfaction. It matters little what one uses to fulfill this satisfying seeking conditioning. And because there’s very little awareness of this, it controls you. There needs to be an understanding that your actions become conditioned and you’re controlled by it. This is what determines whether your actions are wholesome (loving) or unwholesome (selfish). Simply put, loving actions should be cultivated so they become instinctual.

If there isn’t some discipline developed to allow the mind to settle, an understanding of this will be difficult; observing the conditioned patterns will not be recognized. Without recognizing your conditioning you’ll be blindly controlled by it. This is why things are done without hesitation that aren’t in your best interest. Without the ability to observe your thoughts you’re like a puppet on a string. If nothing is in place to allow the mind to settle, the Conditioned Mind puppeteer will continue to control you as you blindly and without hesitation do things that aren’t in the your best interest or the best interest of others…

Based Illusions

Issues based in illusions can’t be fixed with the same illusions. It’s not that truth has to be known to change this, but the illusions will have to become known if they’re to cease being in control…

It’s very difficult to explain truth because there’s so many different definitions of it. Instead of trying to prove what truth is, let’s explore what the illusions are. Illusions are something that have no real facts as its base. Perceptions aren’t factual, they’re usually made up by the perceiver to suit some sort of illusionary belief. People ask me if I believe in God, I answer that I believe in what is known which is based in the facts of what’s experienced. That’s why I share only what’s experienced. I don’t see the benefit of making up a story about something to suit a mind made need. In my case I know love is more beneficial than hate, and kindness is better than being mean. In this I learn what the blocks are to living a (factual) life so it’s of maximum benefit to myself and to all beings. Truth will be known when your illusions are understood.

The biggest illusion in place is that the world will satisfy you, this is reinforced everyday. It’s an illusion which is at the core of our entire misaligned society. It creates all our issues as a society. Religious sects all claim to have the truth, no facts, just their truth. Politicians pretend to fix problems based in corruption with corrupt solutions. The entire entertainment and sports industry are based in illusions that create separation in our society not unity. There’s also the illusion of social and career status. Illusion after illusion, what happens to a society when this is its base, we become an illusionary society. Not because we want to, and not because we don’t know the truth, it’s simply because we don’t understand the based illusions in place…

Conscious Mind State

Life will always be life and it will always be as it is, but you don’t have to be stuck in a mind state where you’re not conscious of what’s actually happening…

To be conscious is to be non reacting in the present moment to what’s happening while it is happening. Anything that happens in life doesn’t have any specific effect on a person, its effect is directly linked to the conditioning that the person has in place. This is why one reacts to what happens the way they do. Reactions are in place for everyone, they just manifest in different ways. The quality of how conscious one is of what’s happening while it’s happening determines the reaction. Before something occurs there’s the space of stillness that it arises from, so if you’re already in an unconscious state of anger, when the next thing arises it’s immediately associated with anger. If you’re in a conscious state of quietness and the same thing takes place, the reaction to it will be much different. The key here is to pay attention to things that are beneficial and conducive to your well being; this is not always easy to see because of the conditioning. Many of our reactions aren’t really beneficial or conducive to our well being, but they’re done anyway because that’s what’s in place. Until there’s consciousness of this these unconscious reactions will be repeated over and over.

You are always in the present moment whether you‘re conscious of it or not. When you’re not conscious this is when what arises controls you. It’s one of the reasons it’s said, “nothing can harm you as much as your own unconscious thoughts” because your thoughts control you as if you were a puppet on a string. Breaking free of this control is more of a mindset than effort. Stillness of each moment is where everything arises from so if you’re in harmony with this, what arises will have less of an effect on you. Life is life and it will be as it is, but you don’t have to be stuck in a state of non beneficial reactions because you’re not conscious of what’s actually happening…

The Lure of Reaching

The most important thing to understand about the lure of reaching is the less attachment to “I” there is the less you will be lured in because without “I” there’s no one who needs to reach…

The lure of reaching is so enticing because it’s actually satisfying; this is why the lure is so powerful. There’s only issue with this because of the impermanent nature of reaching. It simply will not last, it has no staying power so something will always be needed almost immediately following the attainment of whatever is reached for. Think about it, with all the things that have been reached for throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the satisfaction now that it brought at that time. Most times even if the same exact thing is physically repeated it’s usually not as satisfying as the first experience. I used so many things as I was lured in by my reaching conditioning, but it never lasted; the lure of the next reach always arose. This went on all the time, reaching for one thing after another and never staying satisfied.

I’ve come to understand this lure of reaching as the main reason people start using and become addicted to things. If needing satisfaction wasn’t sought, nothing would be reached for so there would never be an addiction. But unfortunately the lure of reaching has its way with people. It’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place since existence began. I know this lure of reaching is what was controlling me for forty nine years and it was directly associated with “I”. Without “I” no one is there to be lured. Even with this understanding the lure of reaching doesn’t just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me the most important thing to understand about this is, the less attachment there is to “I” the less you will be lured in because without “I” there’s no one who needs to reach for the next satisfaction…

Knowing the Lies

Those who claim to know truth, but don’t know the lie remain a slave to the lie. You needn’t have all the answers to know truth, you just need to know how not to be a slave to the lie…

Someone mentioned to me it’s arrogant to claim to know truth and what makes me so sure that what I see is really truth. I responded, I know truth because I know the lie. You see truth isn’t about having all the answers, it’s knowing the lies. At one time I thought I had all the answers and it was a problem because since I had all the answers I was ignorant of the lies which made me ignorant of truth; I couldn’t know truth if I didn’t know the lie.

Several years ago I began developing a practice of quietness which opened up a knowing of what it was to be a slave to the lie, and I say “was” because I am a slave no more. I know the poison of the lie and I choose not to allow it to control me. I know how living selfishly and being judgmental causes not only myself to suffer, but those around me to suffer as well. Because this is known I‘m provided with tools to live differently. If I wasn’t aware of these lies I wouldn’t be aware of truth.

The ultimate delusion is a person who claims to know truth, but doesn’t have an inkling of the lies; this is the place most people live. Many state that there are different versions of truth and no one can know all truth, but it’s been my experience that there aren’t different versions of lies, a lie is a lie, so to me there aren’t different versions of truth. When you know the lies you will know truth. Truth can be known when you know your own lie. Remember truth is not about having all the answers, it’s knowing all the lies. The lies the world present are the gateway to Universal Truth because they are the gateway of knowing worldly lies. So all truth can be known, but only when one knows their own lies…

Formed Stories

Every story is formed for one reason and that’s to make you think life is better. If it was that easy you could just go around making up stories whenever life wasn’t the way you thought it should be…

There are very few hard line facts in a story so what is it that makes a person think a story is needed to make life better? The only reason stories are made up to begin with is because of the way our minds have been programmed. They’re used to keep the mind in a state of agitation by making one believe things need to be different for life to be better. It’s what the ego uses to keep one in bondage to a self that doesn’t exist. This is how most wars are started, because of an egoic story. And whatever the story is whether it’s in a God that’s going to make things better, a superior race or the annihilation of one that will make things better, it all stems from one’s own story that if things were different life would be better.

Life really has nothing to do with a story, but it does have everything to do with trying to arrange life and thinking if things were different it would be better. This is what needs to be discovered if the falseness of a story is to be revealed. If attaching to a story is found to make life better by all means make the story, but for me I would have to say life is better without forming stories; especially that they exist only in my mind. If stories are seen to be real and have some facts to back them up, attach to them, use them, but in truth don’t be surprised if when they are needed to fall back on to make life better, they don’t do what you thought they were going to do…

Beyond "I Self"

If you’re stuck in an “I Self” based existence, you’re being held captive by an “I Self” based world. This is a prison you will only be released from by going beyond your “I Self” into the eternal space of Now…

You cannot have a problem in your life that isn’t created by your “I Self”. This doesn’t mean things that happen are always beneficial, but regardless of what happens, it’s your “I Self” that makes something a problem. Lots of things happen throughout the day and each time there’s a choice to make it a problem or not. Everyone has this choice, it just takes a certain amount of awareness for this to be seen. What awareness does is it slows down the thought process that runs continuously. This slowing down is the beginning of truth arising; without the slowing the necessary quietness that allows this will not happen.

If the “I Self” is the base of your existence noise will be the base of your decisions. This will not allow you to watch the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind. If this nonsense isn’t seen, the mind will never slow down and there won’t be any Now space created. When life is “I Self“ based (unconscious) it’s as though life is a struggle. When the mind slows down, you can see how it’s the Conditioned Mind that takes everything that happens and makes it problematic. This revelation will assist in breaking free of the hold your “I Self” has over you and you’ll be able to see that you’re not the “I Self” you’re beyond it (consciousness). This doesn’t mean unpleasant things won’t happen, on the contrary life will still happen, you just won’t allow yourself to make it a problem. When this occurs and you have no created problems the next step in the process of going beyond an “I Self” existence is to go into the eternal space of Now…