Grateful Heart

Happy Thanksgiving, not only for today, but for each and everyday because life itself is your greatest gift because one day it will not be so…

Being grateful for life occurs naturally when there’s an understanding of how to live from a heart of love; although love is natural it’s not automatic so cultivating love results in gratitude…

Gratitude naturally arises from a loving heart, but it’s not automatic. It isn’t produced by attaching to anything from the materiel realm. If gratitude was from the material realm it would coincide with possessions and that would make a person of wealth more grateful than one who didn’t have much. The true measure of wealth has nothing to do with possessions, true wealth arises from a loving heart, that’s what measures wealth. You can only be grateful when you are content with life as it is, not with the way you wish it was or how you want or expect it to be. 

Wanting is never from our true self, it’s from the small self that thinks what’s wanted is needed to be complete. Whenever you want, it means you think life needs to be in some other way; this creates suffering. Gratitude doesn’t mean everything will be as it’s wanted, life must be accepted as it is if you are to be at peace and have a grateful heart; investigate this for yourself. Gratitude will not shield you from life problems, it will allow you to not create them. Be grateful for your life as it is and you will find your loving heart, and when life is lived from a loving heart there will be harmony with yourself and with all beings. When this occurs you can’t help but to have an attitude that’s full of gratitude for life as it is, not because of what you possess, but because of the natural love that arises from your own heart…

Created Obstacles

Life happens, it’s not personal. When it’s made personal obstacles are created. When you find a center to just be, there’s nothing personal because you become sheltered from creating your own obstacles…

It may seem as though life creates obstacles so you can learn from them, but the obstacles come from within ourselves. Life doesn’t create obstacles, that’s not its nature, it just is. Things happen because of certain Universal Laws, these laws produce certain results, this is just life being life, it’s not personal. There’s a place within every person that you can go when life seems over bearing, but life isn’t ever truly over bearing, it’s just what the Conditioned Mind creates; stories of obstacles. 

Our center of being is a place, a shelter, an inner sanctuary, from the self created obstacles of life. If this place isn’t known when the Conditioned Mind creates these obstacles, you’ll be left unprotected and exposed to face your own created suffering for not finding your shelter; you are the creator of your own misery. This shelter is the true essence of being. It’s the center of Universal Love or God if you’d like.

When you can stay centered there will be shelter from creating your own suffering. This is regardless of what happens in life, that is unless it’s made personal. Life does nothing to no one, it’s each individual alone from the way they‘re conditioned that makes life seem it creates obstacles and this occurs because without a center of being everything that happens in life is put upon your shoulders and makes it something that has to be done. Just understand whatever is going on between your ears is about what you think needs to be done, it’s totally on the individual, created within one self. 

Don’t blame life for not staying centered and being left unprotected and exposed for all kinds of mischief to arise. Find your center so you are sheltered and stay there as much as possible. The more you stay there the fewer obstacles there will be in your life and the less suffering there will be…

Lure of Desire

The most important thing to understand about the lure of desire is the less one is attached to “I” the less one will be lured in because without “I” there’s no one desiring…

The lure of desire is so enticing because it actually feels good and this is why desire is so powerful. The only real issue with this is the impermanent nature of desire. It simply will not last no matter what; desire has no staying power so something else will be needed almost immediately following the attainment of the desire. Think about it, with all the desires that have been attained throughout your life regardless of what it was, it doesn’t bring the fulfillment now that it brought at that time. Most times even if the same exact desire is physically repeated it’s usually not as satisfying as the first experience. I used so many things to satisfy the lure of my desire seeking, but it was never lasting. The lure of the next needed desire always arose. This went on all the time, attaining one desire after another and never being satisfied. 

I’ve come to understand the lure of desire is the main reason people reach for things. If your desires didn’t need fulfillment, nothing would be reached for so there would never be a need for anything; hence there wouldn’t be any issue. Unfortunately the lure of desire has its way with people as it’s deeply ingrained in the subconscious and has been in place before your existence began. I know being lured by desire 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, being lured by desire doesn’t just disappear, but it does subside somewhat. To me, the most important thing to understand about this is, the less one is attached to “I” the less one will be lured by desire because without “I” there’s no one who needs to fulfill the next desire…

Created Deceptions

To expose your created deceptions, why they’re being created needs to be understood. If this understanding doesn’t occur the deception remain which makes your reality deceptive…

The way the base of your thoughts are formulated determines if you see what actually occurs in life or if you create a deceptive reality of your formulated thoughts. Because of the lack of clarity of truth in most peoples lives, this creates two realities occurring at the same. One is what is actually occurring and the other is the deceptive thoughts of what’s occurring. The more unaware a person is of this the more their thoughts create a deceptive story of life instead of living a life of what’s actually occurring.

If this is how you’re living it makes for a very unproductive existence because a deceptive life is being lived; when this is done your entire existence is deceptive. It’s like a magic trick, no matter how real it seems, it’s not. To expose what makes a deception seem real and how the trick is done needs to be understood. It’s the same with our life, to expose the created deceptions, why they’re being created needs to be seen. If this doesn’t occur the deception remains as your reality.

Thoughts are the base of all deceptions because without the attachment to something, it’s impossible for the deception to exist. All deceptions start with a thought that it‘s real, but the thought isn’t what’s actually occurring so two realities are happening at the same time; one is created (the deception) and one just is. The one you live your life by determines if it’s based in what’s actually occurring or if you’re living a life of deceptions created by the Conditioned Mind. There’s living your given life (what is) or there’s life created; it can be a deceptive creation of your thoughts or it can be the reality of what is. There are always two realities to choose from; the deceptive one needs to be exposed. If this doesn’t occur the created deceptions remain as reality which makes life deceptive…

Blind Mentality

There’s so much of a blind mentality in our society today that it’s almost impossible to break its hold. The reason for this is because the thing being held onto is attached to by the blind mentality of “I”…

A blind mentality will drag you along unconsciously unless there’s some awareness that it’s happening. To me, the only thing that allows this awareness are your thoughts slowing down enough to where there’s a millisecond of space between them; in this space the pull of a blind mentality lessens. The only thing I’ve found that allows this space is being present. It’s very important to understand this because people sit for hours with other intentions and the moment they’re finished, the blind mentality returns. Understanding this is beneficial because it allows for a clear vision which keeps the mind open to honesty instead of blindness. If everything stays in the head as blind intellect, it will be difficult to break free from the energy of this. The more attachment there is to blind energy, the harder it is to pull away.

One example of this is in the Bible, the masses grew and grew as the Pharisees publicly tried Jesus. As more people were pulled into the blind mentality to crucify, the energy intensified. If you research some of the conquerors of the past, you will see exactly how the blind mentality works. As their reigns widened and their tyranny expanded, the blind mentality deepened. There’s so much of this energy in our society right now, and it’s reinforced daily. It’s so hard to break free of it because of the attached blind mentality of “I” that keeps it in place. This includes trying to help others if the blind mentality is focused on “I” instead of the intuitive love of the heart. Until “I” is addressed, few people will break free from the blind energy because the attached mentality won’t allow space between your thoughts as the energy of “I” remains in control…

Imagined Self

When the lie of an imagined identity is revealed, the truth that this imagined self doesn’t really exist is revealed. This leads you not so much to knowing who you are, but more so to the truth of knowing who you are not…

One day as I was sitting in silence, it was revealed to me that it took roughly forty nine years to develop an identity to an imagined self; along with all the tools I thought were needed to make me who I thought I was suppose to be. For the last fifteen years I have be undoing what my own mind developed as it told me it was the most beneficial way to live. This imagined self began at the time of birth when my parents named me for the purpose of society having a way to identify me. This identify was then attached to by a self that wasn’t formed yet, but it slowly was being developed into an imagined identity.

This lie was revealed to me as it may be for others at some point, but for many it will remain in place until the time of death. Death may be the time that this is revealed, but most likely you will never be aware of it. For those who do awaken to the fallacy of this imagine self, there’s a freedom that occurs which can only be known in the space of non attachment to this made up imagined self. Bondage is in the belief that you are what you imagine. Freedom is in the knowing that you are not. Again: Bondage is in the belief that you are what you imagine. Freedom is in the knowing that you are not. The more the lie of this imagined self is revealed, the more truth that the imagined self doesn’t really exist is revealed. In this truth there’s a knowing, not of who you are, but of who you are not. It’s in the revelation of this lie that sets you free because you’re no longer in the prison of this imagined self…

Opening the Heart

When there’s unconscious blaming it’s unloving, it has to be as it’s the nature of blaming. It matters little how it’s justified and for what reason the blaming is done, all blaming separates as it arises from unconscious energy…

What’s done is done and for the most part it can’t be undone, but the cause of what’s done can be different so it’s not repeated, especially when what’s done is unloving. How this takes place is by the opening of your heart so what’s done comes from a place of love more often than not. If this opening isn’t a constant in your life, a lot of what’s done will be from the unloving place of the Conditioned Mind. It may not be an intentional act that produces results that cause a glaring conflict, but a simple act of talking about someone behind their back is unloving. Don’t blame another if you can’t cast the first stone. That’s all unconscious unloving behavior is; blaming. Conditioned Mind blaming is formed unconsciously because of all the energy one is exposed to, its why an opening of the heart is needed; although it has been my experience that an opening of the heart is not a doing more than it’s a doing. 

As I have become more aware of the self centered I that was in place for so many years of my life, this awareness has resulted in an ever so slowly transformation of energy from unloving energy (all about me) to stillness energy (loving). There’s really nothing to do to become more loving because it will just be another story instead of being genuine and natural. In the space of stillness where thought isn’t in control, the opening of the heart takes place as one’s innate goodness arises; there’s no unconsciousness here. When there’s blaming it’s unloving, it has to be because it’s the nature of blaming. I don’t care how it’s justified and for what cause, any blaming arises from unloving energy. Blame not for you shall not be blamed and if you are with an open heart to love, it won’t really matter…