Understanding Practice

Understanding and learning from a practice allows for those who were once lost to possibly be found, and those who were once blind to possibly see, but only if there’s a practice in place that understands this…

If there isn’t some kind of practice in place so your can understand your behavior, it will be difficult to proceed in a direction where there will be any expansion in your life. The first thing to understand is if you even have a practice that’s practical and beneficial. I don’t mean the practice of belonging to certain groups, although there’s nothing wrong with that, but if it’s in place to just keep you busy, it’s not really a beneficial practice. Although it is a practice, the understanding of how it’s working to quiet the mind or how it keeps the mind agitations at bay, is what one needs to understand for the continuous expansion of life’s process. I’m sharing this because this is what has allowed me to be as I am today. There’s no magic to this, a beneficial practice has to be understood if one is to experience beneficial results, this is as simple as two plus two equaling four.

Understand your behavior, reactions, attachments, annoyances, and whatnot and see what is the driving force behind them. This driving force is your block to expanding beyond the nonsense of the Conditioned Mind. Without a solid practice in place that allows this to be understood, you might as well not practice at all because it’s just a waste of time and energy. Either do it so it’s truly beneficial or don’t do it at all. You can only be free by understanding what it takes to be free, and only a practice that puts you in harmony with life allows harmony with life; to me this makes sense. I practiced wrongly (not understanding) for many years and it produced results that weren’t beneficial, but I understand this now and learned from this. Because of this understanding, where I was once lost, I’m now found and where I was once blind, I now see, but only because of having a practice that understands this…

A Habitual Reality

For many, habits have way too much control over what is done today. Until this is identified and your habits are let go of, you will continue to be controlled by them as if you were a puppet on a string…

Understanding how to live peacefully today as opposed to living life from what is habitual, is the difference in being at peace or being controlled by your habits. When you’re living today you’re with true reality, not a reality made up of habits. When there isn’t the reality of today, there’s the delusional state of habitual living which makes for very little if any peace in your life.

The reality of what’s occurring today means if you’re reading this post, that’s reality. There’s nothing else going on beyond what’s happening now. There may be something going on between your ears, but that’s the created delusional state of habits (what isn’t). The bottom line is habitual living is not the reality of what’s occurring today.

The mind has been conditioned to think it has to use habits to create a life that’s better than the one that’s occurring today; this is what keeps you from truly living life. I’m not sure why this is, but I do know it has to do with influences beyond one’s control. To me what matters is to develop a disciplined method of sitting which allows you to break free of the habitual control of these influences. Control is control so the more you’re controlled by habits, the less reality there will be. Unless you live with the reality of today and learn how to identify your habitual influences, it will be impossible to ever be at peace because you’ll remain under the spell of a habitual reality…

Divine Truth

Divine truth puts you in harmony with life. Understand though it’s not life that does anything to you, but if you aren’t aligned with divine truth, it will certainly seem like it does…

Divine truth is in place to put you in harmony with life, and it’s also in place to offer protection against certain behavior. This truth when followed within its boundaries, allows for life to be lived to the fullest; the mind has to be open and free flowing for this to take place. There’s heart truth that aligns to divine truth, but it’s often missed because the mind comes into play which blocks it from being seen. The more you give in to selfish behaviors, the less chance there is to be in harmony with divine truth. When things are used and abused to satisfy self, this blocks life from being truthful. The animal realm knows truth naturally, that’s why there’s perfect balance. Unfortunately the human conditioning relies too much on the intellect and not enough on divine truth.

Life will mostly be lived in one of two ways, acting in ways that allows alignment to divine truth or not. A quiet mind can see this to a degree and slowly stop doing the things that block divine truth from arising. As long as you’re alive life will be lived, but in what way determines your actions and consequences. Cheat on your spouse and regardless if you get caught or not, you’ll be out of harmony with the truth that’s in place. So take heed and understand life never does anything to you, but if you aren’t aligned with divine truth, it will certainly seem like it does…

Non-Beneficial Opinions

When there’s awareness that your opinions aren’t beneficial, freedom can take over. This freedom is always there, but it’s not experienced because you think your opinions are beneficial…

Thinking your opinions are beneficial puts you in a self-created prison. Without this attachment life would be viewed through the eyes of freedom which by the way are the eyes of peace; because you think your opinions are beneficial this view isn’t seen. Opinions are made up by the energy of ignorance. This makes everything that happens in life about your opinions, but it isn’t truly ever about your opinions, it‘s not about anything in particular except you think it is because you assign the label that your opinions are beneficial.

Thinking your opinions are beneficial is what makes the mind attach to thoughts and those attachments become the prison that causes the associated thoughts to control your life. What is really happening is this, life just happens, it’s not personal, it’s not about your opinions or anything else you think it is. It’s not about right, wrong, love, hate, good or bad, it‘s mostly about learning to understand your minds true nature of quietness and not be imprisoned by thinking your opinions are beneficial. When there’s awareness of this you experience freedom; a freedom that has always been there in the space of quietness, but it was never experienced because your own mind forms opinions that imprison you because you think your opinions are beneficial…

Heart Intention of Love

To be imperfect is human, but to be of love is perfect. When one lives from the heart there’s alignment with the Universe and all that is done is from a heart intention of love…

Regardless of the story that one makes up, most of what is done in life is to satisfy yourself; when one dies it all goes to the grave or urn with the individual. There are things that will be left behind and how one will be remembered is determined by the hearts intention of love. This isn’t something that can be manufactured; love is natural and always genuine. It comes from the heart and whenever something is done from the heart, it’s an intention of love because it touches people. Maybe not all people, but that’s mostly because of the Conditioned Mind. If something is done from the heart and one out of a hundred people has issue with it, the issue is with the one not with what is done.

One day all of what one has done in this life will come to pass. Everything left behind matters little in what is said and done, but the hearts intention of love does matter. Although what we say and do may not always be agreed with, as long as what’s done is from an intention of the heart, it will be an of love. To be imperfect is a human trait, but love is Universal. When we live from the hearts intention of love there’s alignment with the Universe and all that is done is of love. This is because when what is done is from the intention of a heart of love it touches others whether it’s agreed with or not…

Blemished Past

Because the past is held onto as if it’s needed, it creates an identify formed mostly of blemishes from the past. These blemishes show where you have been, but they don’t have to dictate where you are going…

Blemishes only show where you have been, they don’t show where you’re going. Everyone has a past and there’s plenty of things that have happened that leave blemished energy patterns, but when you awaken for that millisecond it’s a breakthrough of a lifetime; in that millisecond your entire existence becomes different. This is why it’s so important to understand the conditioning that’s taken place over the years because without this understanding it will be impossible to change the conditioning that’s creating scars. The only way life will ever change is when the conditioning that makes scars changes.

The most misunderstood thing about the process of life is how the blemishes of the past dictate the future. It doesn’t have to be this way, but until you stop listening to your Conditioned Mind this won’t change. This doesn’t mean the blemishes are to be ignored, on the contrary they need to be faced so they can be identified for what they truly are; energy patterns from the past that are being held onto. They only exist and they’re only in control because of this. The Conditioned Mind is so subtle that it prevents you from seeing there’s only a blemished past because your mind attaches to it…

Human Level View

The root of all struggles are deeply ingrained at the human level. They’re rooted in the structure of how you think. If this isn’t investigated beyond the human level view, nothing will ever change…

Changing the human level mind structure is like turning a ship. The intention to turn happens right away, but the turn itself is very gradual. It’s as though we know we need to start turning right away, but we don’t see beyond the human level. Here’s a simple suggestion if you want to get in touch with breaking free of this ingrained human level structure; it’s not that complicated. When you do something, investigate what the human level viewer sees. No reason to go back and look for a traumatic incident, why it’s seen only from the human level is sufficient.

If the need to reach for something happens because life throws you a curve ball, and you don’t investigate why the reaching arose, you’ll probably use a human level distraction not to succumb to it. By doing this you’ll never be free because you’ll never get in touch with why the human level viewer is in place. Investigating why you’re a human level viewer is the most important thing you can do for yourself when some behavior is done that’s not in your best interest. If you don’t, you will just substitute one thing for another and in the process remain trapped to what’s causing the need to reach. You may not like this post and you may even ignore it, but don’t be surprised when the next life curve ball comes and you find yourself reaching for something from the human level, you just won’t know why because you’re only seeing it as a human level viewer…