Pure Love Essence

You cannot be controlled by anything that isn’t allowed. Thoughts are given the energy needed to allow them control. When this is realized and you are present, you’re given the space to experience the essence of pure love…

Mind and thoughts are not two different things. When a person is able to stop thoughts, at least temporarily, that’s when the mind ceases to be in control. If this were ever to happen by itself, you would be considered in a state of vegetation. When it’s done through discipline, you become the master of the whole universe. You would control the whole universe, for you would have all its energy at your disposal; this is the space where you experience the essence of pure love.

Total and complete stoppage of all mental activity by complete mastery over the mind for a millisecond, gives access to the experience of your true being. When the mind is eradicated and your thoughts no longer control you, the experience of who you really are becomes your very own. You rest in the space between your thoughts and experience existence in a Self that is the essence of pure love…

Quietness of No Mind

The mind will only settle when there is quiet. You can’t really do anything for this settling, it arises from itself. When the mind stops intellectualizing, the internal urging will settle in the quietness of no mind…

When one truly awakens, there’s an understanding of a quiet mind and how it relates to life. When this occurs there’s freedom because quietness arises naturally. We seek because of an internal urgings for quiet which is what a true awakening reveals; a true awakening cannot be known intellectually. Intelligence is actually noise, quietness can only be known by being quiet. The lack of quiet makes life very mundane. It makes you less aware of the internal urging of quietness provided by the Universe. Without this awareness you cannot truly understand what the benefits of being quiet are. Understand though, quietness is always there, it’s just not understood. Nothing is needed to experience quietness; the only way you can be quiet is by being quiet. Methods may be useful in learning to be disciplined, but the only reason this is so is because the mind hasn’t been developed for quietness, it’s been developed to generate noise.

It’s a human fault to have a need to make life about something, if something is needed, make it about being quiet. I know this because it’s the only thing that truly makes sense to me. It’s the only place where I don’t need to think and there’s peace. Not to think is to be in a state of no mind and in this state is true peace. How can it not be peaceful in this state, there’s nothing to cause one to suffer; there’s no generated noise in the head. The quietness of I Am. Nothing more will ever be needed because in quiet is where everything arises from, that is unless you want to live by the generated noise in your head. Quietness is the ultimate truth, but even saying that is noise. Quietness of no mind is all that is, when one stops seeking it or trying to define it that’s when it arises…

Suffering Thoughts

Most people don’t have a clue how much suffering the Conditioned Mind causes. Until this is realized, it’s better to be quiet; when seeing things from quiet there’s no thought of suffering…

Watch how thoughts cause suffering, as they’re mostly in the context of you, me, them, they, those and of course “I”. It’s not limited to just these, but these are some of the main culprits in the created suffering. The other day I posted an article and someone posted a response saying what was written wasn’t correct. Although I didn’t appreciate the way it was presented, there’s a fine line in being with what’s there or allowing there to be suffering. There’s suffering on one end which goes without saying, but by me being the one who knows better I have to do what’s necessary to minimize the suffering; not for the other person, but for myself and humanity as a whole. That may sound grandiose, but it’s not because as energy goes so does the world around you go.

We went round and round with it until it got to a point where lies were being posted so it was better to discard the energy. It’s wasn’t that the person agitated me, it was more so to stop the suffering energy that was being put out. Energy makes the world different and it also keeps the world the same. The point of this article is to show how easy it is to attach to someone and cause suffering. Maybe it’s not so easy to turn the other cheek, but by not attacking back you’re the one who remains free; remember you can’t have a riot with one person. It’s always about the conditioning, never about the person. In this way of viewing things, the energy put out may not seem loving, but at least there’s quiet so it can become loving. Most people don’t have a clue how much suffering the Conditioned Mind causes. Until this is realized, it’s better to be quiet; when seeing things from a place of quiet, there’s no thought of suffering…

Your True Self

Without the attachment to labels and stories there’s existence beyond words, this is where one will be free from the prison of self; without this prison you can be your true self…

If everything that’s done is based on the self doing it then one must keep doing to keep the self whole. Who is this self that needs to be kept whole? This prison of self is the main attachment that keeps one entrapped to their own created suffering. Sit with this next part and see exactly where is this self that one so adamantly defends. What if you lost your arm would you still exist? How about both arms and legs? Now take every function away expect for the mind, let’s just say that remained intact. There is still existence, and even if you lost your mind there would still be existence, you just wouldn’t be aware of it. So what part of your story of this self is you? The limbs, or the story of the loss of them, the mind, or the story of the loss of it; I guess there wouldn’t be a story if there wasn’t a mind.

There’s nothing to pinpoint where the self is that’s created in the mind. This isn’t to say there isn’t a self, but what part of the made up story is really this self that is attached to? What part of it makes you complete or incomplete? In my case, is it my role as a husband, father, son, brother and so on? Or is it my job title or my writings? All of these things exist, but they’re only a story. You may ask who are you or anyone for that matter without their story? Without the attachment to labels and stories there’s existence beyond words, this is where one will be free from the prison of self; without this prison you can be your true self…

Life Isn't About You

Notice how much you think about yourself and you just may be able to settle in a place where your emotions aren’t in control, and hopefully you’ll come to realize life really isn’t about you, you just think it is…

As long as one is alive life happens, actually life happens even if you aren’t alive, there just isn’t awareness of it. So life isn’t really about what happens as much as it’s about how much one relates their thinking about what happens. This is where conditioning steps in and determines the relation to what happens next. It can be of love, it can be of hate, but for most it teeters between the two. Very few go to the extreme of either one of these emotions so the results for most humans are balanced. When these emotions do hit an extreme level the results are very noticeable. This is all contingent how much one is conditioned to think about themselves; this thinking is what manifest as emotions. If you had love as the main influence in your life, obviously you will love more than a person who had hate as their influence. This all arises from inside the individual so if you truly notice the base of your actions you may be able to alter those actions. Besides hoping for divine intervention which will probably not occur, it will take some practice to allow the mind to settle so this is noticed.

The true addictions in society is thinking, and when you are the main subject of that thinking, it makes one’s existence very irrational. Now multiply that by billions of people and hence you have the world we live in; billions of people constantly thinking about themselves strictly for personal gain. There’s no one to blame for this because it arises from within. From the mass murderer to the person who is a people pleaser, it’s the thinking mind that causes extreme emotions and everything else in between. So sit often with the intention of developing the ability to notice how much you think about yourself and you just may be able to settle in a place where your emotions aren’t in control and hopefully you’ll come to realize life really isn’t about you, you just think it is…

The Confines of Love

An open heart doesn’t guarantee things going on around you will change, but what will change is the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at life from within the confines of love…

I’m sure everyone has heard the expression “the circle of life” but here’s a little different spin on it as “the confines of love”. Think of it as though life is a circle, when you love you’re inside its confines. When you’re not it means you’re living mostly from “I” which automatically puts you beyond loves confines. Outside the confines was how the first forty nine years of my life were lived. Occasionally I was within the confines, but not very often; this was because my “I” conditioning kept my heart closed. It’s nearly impossible to enter the confines of love from “I” because “I” is what keeps the heart closed. When you see this, it gives you something tangible to work with which is the key to opening the heart; with an open heart you’ll be in the confines of love.

Life and love can be synonymous, but only when you’re within the confines of love, and you can only be there when the heart is open. The things of the world that keep you outside the confines of love are many. It’s as though you’re on the outside of a house looking in through a window. Love opens the heart to see things that were previously unseen, and this is what opens you to see as if you’re inside the house looking out. When you’re on the inside looking out it’s because the heart is open. With the heart open it may not change what’s going on around you, but it does change the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at life from within the confines of love…

Thought Awareness

Thoughts that aren’t aware of themselves can’t be changed with self help methods. It’s through the quietness of the heart that one can be set free from the thoughts that hold the mind captive…

A do it yourself self help mentality to a better life is like having directions to one place, but a trip to another place is planned. The directions have purpose, but their usefulness are limited. Even if the directions are used correctly it will never get you to your destination. I’m not insinuating there isn’t value in the directions, but their usefulness is limited, and they become useless if you’re not traveling to the place of the directions; to me self help methods and programs produce these same useless results. We are constantly trying to arrange life thinking we can fix ourselves by trying to fill an inner void with all kinds of things from the outside, and regardless of the fix the void never gets filled. This is not some theory I made up, it‘s factual because this is exactly what happened to me. Look around and you’ll see how the world is full of people doing this same exact thing; if you are truly honest with yourself you’re probably doing it too.

Think of this, the mind that creates the need for self help is the same mind that’s going to be used to fix it; this isn’t feasible. If this mind didn’t create a problem to begin with, the need for self help wouldn’t be required. It’s like rotating a flat tire, putting the flat side on top, and expecting the flat to be repaired. Something that’s broke cannot be used to repair itself. It would take a miracle for this to happen; if you want to rely on miracles so be it.

Another thought to be aware of is doing something and asking yourself why it was done? Understand the thought that told you to do it is the same thought that’s now questioning it; this is the thought that self help relies on. There’s no wonder humans are in the state we’re in. Humans have created the way the world is and the same humans are trying to fix it. And get this, with the same thoughts that made the world the way it is. Thoughts that aren’t aware of themselves can’t change themselves. It’s through the quietness of the heart that one can be set free from the thoughts that hold the mind captive; something to think about…