Mind Congestion

A congested mind won’t clear up on its own regardless of what system you hold onto. Systems hinder the quieting because they’re just a response to mind congestion that blocks clarity…

If your mind congestion is in control and running your life, it doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to be in a place of clarity. It’s such a congested world and what makes it so is most people are looking for an answer outward when the answer is within. What the congestion actually is and how it’s created is by not being aware that you already have your answers. With a mind that’s conditioned to want answers you have to constantly look for them, hence the mind congestion. This is how the congestion of a Conditioned Mind is formed and how it blocks awareness to clarity. It’s mind congestion created because if you knew you had your answers the need to look for them would be non existent and so would the mind congestion.

Everyone has the ability to consciously remove the mind congestion, but it’s just not something that’s going to happen on its owns. Isn’t it beautiful that your clarity is in your hands, that it’s totally up to each individual how much peace is brought into your life. A little practice equates to littlle clarity so it’s up to each individual to do what’s necessary to stop the mind congestion. As you practice being in the moment the mind congestion quiets and you’re left with clarity. If you‘re waiting for anything else you’ll be waiting a very long time and it’ll probably not happen while you are alive in this form…

Life Hurdles

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

It may seem as though life creates hurdles so you can learn from them, but the hurdles faced come from within ourselves. Life doesn’t create hurdles, 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 hurdles.

Our center of being is a place, a shelter, an inner sanctuary, from the self created hurdles of life. If this place isn’t known when the Conditioned Mind creates these hurdles, you’ll be left unprotected and exposed to face your own 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 unless it’s made personal. But life does nothing to no one, it’s each individual alone from the way they‘re conditioned that makes life seem it creates hurdles 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 hurdles there will be in your life and the less it will seem like life creates hurdles…

False Identity

The more attachment there is to I, the more this creates a false identity. When this false identity is exposed, it doesn’t lead to seeing the truth of who you are, it exposes the lies of who you are not…

As I was sitting in meditation the other day, in the silence arose how it took nearly fifty years to form an attachment to a delusional self, along with all the tools I thought were needed to make me who I thought I was suppose to be. For the last nine years I have be undoing this attachment to this delusional self which was thought to be the most beneficial way to live. This delusional self began at the time of birth when my parents named me for the purpose of having a way to identify me. This name was then attached to and the delusion began by a self that wasn’t even formed yet, but it was slowly being developed into a delusional identity.

I had an inkling of this throughout periods of my life although it was strictly on an intellectual level, but on this day there was a shift and this inkling went from my head to my heart and the delusional lie of self was exposed for me. For most people this delusion will remain in place until the time of death and although for many death itself will be the time that this lie is exposed, they may never be aware of it. For those who do awaken to the fallacy of this delusional identity, there’s a freedom that occurs that can only be known in the space of non attachment to this made up delusional self.

One’s bondage is in the belief that you are what you think, freedom is in knowing you are not. The more the lie of this delusional identity is exposed, the more exposure there will be to the truth that this self doesn’t really exist. In this truth there’s a knowing, not of who you are, but of who you are not, and it’s in the awareness of this lie that sets one free because one is no longer locked in to the identity of a false self…

Focused Attention

Your focused attention determines how your existence plays out. If it’s constantly focused towards self you will be self-ish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from self, you remain in captivity…

For me the key to being liberated from the captivity of self, is turning my energy away from greed and lustful thoughts. When the mind gets stuck in these thoughts to be liberated it needs to become unstuck. What makes it get stuck is your attention is mostly focused on satisfying self in some way. Pay attention to the sensations of the body, mind, and mental formations. This is a direct path to how one becomes liberated from suffering.

Liberation from suffering is not pain free, it’s learning to be with the pain that arises. You cannot hide from what’s happening, you can only divert your attention away from it. To no longer have your attention engaged in satisfying the self is where the path of liberation leads to. How this is done is by stopping the focused attention of self and focusing towards what will liberate you from it. The self is there and it has been given a name (for me Michael) but it has many different labels attached to it; this creates bondage because of the mere fact of the attachment it has to itself. Liberation is in understanding the lies of self, it isn’t in creating a concept or belief in something.

You can only be free by paying attention to what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because of the conditioning of the self. Constant vigilance is needed for the liberation from self. You’re alive so you exist, but it will be your focus attention that determines the extent of the liberation one’s has from self and that will be the determining factor in how your existence plays out.

Awakened Heart

There’s strength in unity. Although there’s nothing wrong with individuality, spreading love is so much more powerful when it‘s linked in unity for the simple purpose of sharing love…

If you think you can have an individual agenda to change the world you will be gravely disappointed. Not in your effort, but in the result of the world not changing. A large part of the problems of the world are individual agendas. There’s way to much energy wasted on these individual agendas. If the world is to change it has to be done in unity. We all need to have a heart of love and give the love that is in our heart to others. This love is from the Universe and it’s the awakened heart that realizes this. An awakened heart is not limited to certain religious belief or mind made concepts, it’s open to anyone who has purity of heart; the only way for it to be pure is to remove its pollutants. An example of this would be polluted water: Nothing has to be added to polluted water to return it to its natural state of purity, all that needs to be done is to remove the pollutants.

To me the only thing that matters in life is to understand the loving awakened heart and to learn to remove all the pollutants so love is emitted to all beings; this is the Universe’s doing not ours. What I try and teach is a message of love, but it isn’t my love, its the love of the Universe. Of myself I can do nothing but self seek. It’s through the surrendering of the heart that the Universe will find the best possible way to use you. What this results in is up to the Universe not some individual agenda. So it’s in our unity that there is strength and it is our self serving agenda that keeps the awakened heart from being utilized to the fullest…

Base Energy Of Love

There’s always a base from where life is lived from and this is what determines if the energy emitted out to the world is truly from love or from the way one thinks the world should be…

For years the base of my life was from self serving energy, this didn’t leave much room for anyone else to be served so to say the least my life was always filled with drama and chaos. This is what a life based in self serving energy produces, it has to because that’s the nature of self serving energy. No one is truly at fault for this base, it’s basically in place because it’s the way of the world. There are so many lives based in this self serving energy and it’s the cause of every conflict that has ever occurred since the beginning of time.

Ever so slowly a base of love is being established and it’s the one’s with this base that are making the world different. The only way things will become different in the world is when one base at a time is of love. A life based in love is of quietness, it’s not a made up base where one has to constantly defend that their base is the way. True love needs no defending because it’s in unity with all of life regardless of what someone else thinks. If for some reason you’re in conflict with someone your base is not of love, it can’t be because that’s not how love rolls; it never ever has conflict because it’s energy doesn’t allow it.

Conflict with others is a good gauge to see if your life’s base is truly of love or self serving energy. If there’s conflict regardless of what the other person’s base is, your base is not of love. You may tell yourself it is, but it can’t be if there’s conflict. A conflict arises when someone isn’t in line with the way you think things should be; like it’s really known how things should be. Mind your own business, take care of your base and make sure you allow everything and everyone to be as they are because that’s when the base of your life will be of love and the world will be different because of it…

One in the Same

Love is all encompassing because it’s the essence of existence. I don’t exist because of me, I am because the Universe created me, this makes the creator and all creation one in the same…

A question to ask yourself is how do you treat the most important person in your life, which is yourself? I say this in this context because you cannot give to others what you don’t have yourself, so if you don’t truly love yourself you cannot give love. To truly live, you will need adherence to two spiritual laws; Love God (of your understanding) with all your heart and love your neighbor as you love yourself. These are the two laws that are necessary if the true meaning of living is to be understood; you cannot truly live if you don’t love. These two laws work together, one can’t be adhered to without the other.

To love God of your understanding is to understand only the beloved is real and we exist as a product of the Universe. We don’t exist because of the thought realm of self; there is no true love in this realm. We are created by the Universe to serve the Universe and everything in existence is part of the Universe, so our love is for our creator just for being our creator and our creation had nothing to do with anything on our part. When this is understood you will be able to give yourself the gift you deserve, the gift that is your birth right and that is the true love of self, a self in the form of Universal Love.

It’s all one, the Universe, God, yourself, humanity so you cannot love your neighbor without loving yourself and you cannot love yourself without loving the creator. Creation is the essence of life, it’s where all form begins. To me this is why the most important gift that you can give is to truly love yourself so you can in turn love all of life. Love is what turned my life around because by learning to love myself it opened my heart to see that the beloved is real and in turn since the beloved is my creator when I love my creator I love me because I am one in the same. When I truly love me the only thing I can do is love you, not because I want to, but because I have to, how can I not because it’s what’s there as we are all one in the same…