Category Limits

Every decision made to categorize something limits it to whatever category is being applied. Concepts and beliefs are categories that limit what the Universe has to offer…

The Universe needs no permission to do what it does. It responds to things out of necessity, and it does so unconditionally, without deciding what category to apply. It exists as it is, adding nothing because it needs nothing; the Universe is self sustaining. It creates, it destroys, it neither loves nor hates in the sense of emotions, what it is can’t really be categorized. It’s pure energy and it’s from this energy that everything is created. This energy is existence in its purest state. The moment there’s a decision to categorize this, it loses its sense of purity.

Humans decide to apply all kinds of categories to life, but life needs no category. The place of non-categorized attachments is the only true place of existence; it’s in this place, in the midst of the Universe that our true essence is. It’s a place that is here, there, and everywhere, but not categorized as such. Stillness exists as life. If it’s decided a category is needed, apply it, just understand it’s a decision that limits. Once this decision is made it creates resistance, so make a decision to be in the unlimited space of what the Universe puts in front of you. The Universe is within each and every person. It’s where everything arises from, but it’s a decided category that limits the awareness of what the Universe has to offer…

Being a Benefit

When you don’t have the constant need for pleasure, the mind settles and the Universe works with whatever talent is in you for its betterment; you become its benefit…

Remove the things that cause you to suffer, they are greed, hate, and delusion and it’s because of their essence that there’s suffering. Addicted to the need for pleasure is of a lower vibration. The core of this belief is the more there’s a need for pleasure, the happier you will be. Satisfying these pleasures are not an issue until they produce craving, that‘s when problems arise. Remove this mask and what you will be left goes beyond anything you can imagine.

The bondage of seeking pleasure is not only sought by just about everyone, it has been in place for eons. Forget about getting beyond it, it’s no small feat just becoming aware of this. When there is awareness of this and you’re able to go beyond the pleasure seeking, the results are miraculous. There’s no telling what may arise and what may be experienced when pleasure seeking takes a back seat. Your creative energy will go in a direction not previously known, this is because the pleasure seeking that’s been in place has been blocking it from arising.

When there’s not the constant need for pleasure, the mind settles and the Universe works with whatever talent is in you for its betterment. There may be a musician, a painter, a gardener or botanist, or even a writer inside you, who knows a book may even come out of it. I guarantee you this, whatever it is that comes from your creative energy, it will be based in love which will make you a benefit to humanity because that’s just the way the Universe rolls…

Stuck in Ignorance

It’s strictly from ignorance that one attaches to wanting things different which in turn causes you to get stuck in creating your own suffering…

If you really want to know what the basic flaw seems to be that keeps one stuck in their own suffering, it’s attaching to ignorance to a fault. It’s not that we know everything or that we’ll be able to transcend our ignorance, it’s more so to find a way to see it for what it is and not get stuck in it. It will always be succumbing to ignorance in some way that causes suffering. It doesn’t have to be attached to, but it will take discipline so the mind settles to see this. It’s always ignorance that wants things different and it’s always attaching to the story of want that causes suffering. This is true regardless of the circumstances.

Here’s an example of the charade of ignorance that pulls one into suffering. I ordered a pair of pants on line, when they were delivered I tried them on and they didn’t fit. By my first reaction you would have thought I was going to have to go without pants, but that wasn’t the case. I attached to wanting them to fit and didn’t accept the fact that the pants simply didn’t fit. This is what attaching to ignorance does and when I saw how childish this was, it fell away and I was able to simply send the pants back. You can substitute the pants with anything and you’ll get the same childish results of suffering. This is all because to be ignorant is to want things your way. It’s strictly from ignorance that one attaches to wanting things different which in turn causes you to get stuck in creating your own suffering…

Spiritual Energy

Spiritual energy is enough because in this energy there’s oneness with life, and since Spiritual energy is love you are love. Nothing needs to be added to be enough because you already are all that you can become…

A benefit that you’ll acquire by understanding what the practice of quieting the squirrel cage mind does is, instead of striving to become, you’ll be guided by the Creative Intelligence of the Universe (Spiritual energy) and be in harmony with life. You‘ll realize you are complete just as you are and nothing added can make you more complete. This is priceless because when this is experienced there’s understanding the difference between being and doing, and you will stop doing for the sole purpose of being. Right now, even though it may not be known, you are already all that you can be.

At the base of this understanding is Spiritual energy because that is who you are, nothing more can be added that would make you be something more. Even if you found the cure for cancer, it wouldn’t be enough unless it was derived from Universal Love, but it wouldn’t be the cure that would be enough, it would be the love behind finding the cure. Love is enough, only the self-serving mind needs something more in the form of an object, but it’s not really needed it’s only the ego that makes life into a belief something is needed. A belief isn’t real, it’s only a story made up by a self-serving mind that needs to become something. There aren’t any facts to a belief, but what is factual is Love; a belief or a story isn’t. This is when the striving to become ceases and love is enough, it’s because you realize love is who you are. Spiritual energy is enough because in this energy there’s oneness with life, and since Spiritual energy is love you are love. Nothing needs to be added to be enough because you already are all that you can become…

Insights Uncovered

A quiet mind gains insight by allowing one’s unconsciousness to be uncovered. This inner space of quietness is where all truth awaits to be uncovered, but only when quietness is the focus…

A true understanding of life cannot be uncovered by doing. There are many highly intelligent people who never understand life. This doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with intelligence, but you become what you focus on. For me, insights came when the cause of why I struggled so much with life was uncovered; the struggle was because I was focused on a non-beneficial view (selfish). Now the focus isn’t so much on a made up beneficial view, but more so on not being focused on the view that caused my struggles. This is what a quiet mind affords a person, it has nothing to do with intelligence. Choose any view that’s wanted, but understand the view in place is what you focus on and it’s what will manifest as life; unconsciousness is the struggle.

Focus on quietness and insights will be uncovered, but only when there’s awareness of unconsciousness; this is how life ceases to be a struggle. Use whatever tools that work to get quiet and focus on that. The mind will settle more and more into a state of quietness that allows insights to be uncovered. Becoming truly insightful isn’t for a select few, it’s available to anyone. It takes an understanding that quietness has nothing to do with intellect, that it’s something which occurs as a result of your focus on the inner space within. You can only become quiet when that’s the focus, not to the point where it’s a doing, but to the point where it’s what’s there because that’s the focus. To me, insights are uncovered when unconsciousness is uncovered which occurs when quietness is the focus…

Created Lack

There’s never a lack that isn’t created so there’s never a true need to reach outside yourself for anything. Until this is seen you will continue the suffering of lack…

Every time someone reaches for something designed for a specific issue, it’s because they believe there’s lacking in them. Same when a person goes to see a therapist, or they reach for another self help book, program, or if any other type of outside help is sought; this is because of the applied label of lack. When this is done all you’re doing is reinforcing the attachment to that label and hence you’re keeping yourself attached that there’s lack; there’s lack only because you have labeled it. Read this very carefully because why this label is being applied will be the difference in being complete or remaining entrapped to lack. Some of the things mentioned above do have value if they’re used at certain times in the one’s life. If they’re being held onto as an end to a means, they lose their value as the needing morphs into lack and hence suffering.

Not many will see exactly what I’m talking about here, but I’m writing it because it’s what I experienced after many years of trying to fill lack with things from the outside. I have found the very things that I was using to fill what I thought was lack is what kept me reaching; regardless of what was being used. Why I thought there was lack is what I needed to find out because it didn’t truly exist; since it didn’t truly exist why was it there. To me if something from the outside is needed to live life, something isn’t right. If I can’t just be with myself without thinking there’s lack, I have to ask myself why this is so. There‘s never a lack that isn’t created so there’s never a true need to reach outside yourself for anything. Until this is seen you will continue to think you lack and thus create your own suffering…

Hamster Wheel Energy

As long as there is seeking there will always be seeking and you’ll remain on the hamster wheel path, exerting all kinds of energy, but not really getting anywhere…

What keeps a person stuck on the hamster wheel path of seeking is trying to manufacture peace, love, kindness, mindfulness, spirituality, and so on instead of aligning yourself with the present moment which allows these attributes to arise naturally. This is what keeps the hamster wheel energy in place. The energy of seeking is circular (like a hamster wheel) so it’s never going to produce anything that’s going to free you from the hamster wheel energy. You may bounce to a seemingly different energy because it’s given a different label, but as long as you think you have to do something to manufacture a certain desired result, hamster wheel energy will continue regardless of what it’s called, and so you will remain on the path to no where.

This hamster wheel energy of seeking makes a person use an array of things, from sweets, drugs, alcohol, gambling, tv, success, sex, programs, another book, retreats, a path, meditation, and many other things. What these all have in common is they keep you attached to the hamster wheel energy of seeking which is a byproduct of the Conditioned Mind. A true transformation of the spirit cannot be manufactured because seeking energy is the exact energy that blocks the alignment which allows energy to transform. Only when you detach from the hamster wheel can a transformation or shift occur. As long as there is seeking there will always be seeking and you will remain on the hamster wheel path, exerting all kinds of energy, but not really getting anywhere…