Similarities Not Differences

What is judged in a person including yourself is conditioned behavior. When this is seen in yourself first it will be seen in others and our similarities not our differences will be seen…

Did you ever wonder why we look at our differences from each other instead of seeing our similarities? Humans have more similarities than differences. Our creation starts and ends the same. In our early years our basic needs are pretty much the same until we become conditioned to think otherwise. We exist needing the same conditions of air, food, and water to survive, and regardless of the circumstances at the end of existence the end result is the same for everyone; nobody gets out alive. We are one species on this tiny planet in this vast Universe.

We are all the same except for our developed thoughts, and most of those thoughts are formed based in looking at life from a self-serving perspective. When this view changes it will be at this point that we’ll see our similarities and not our differences; we’ll understand how much we truly have in common. When you can see a persons conditioning from their true self you’ll stop judging what the person does because you’ll understand they’re only doing what they have been conditioned to do. In this we are all the same. So when this is truly understood it’s virtually impossible to judge another. More importantly though you can stop judging yourself. After all you can only stop judging you when you stop judging me and when this is learned you can love me because you know I truly love you…

Limited Options

Going through life without an understanding of how your mind works makes existence much more difficult because it limits the options and limiting the options limits the choices…

We discover the cause of all suffering when we are truly able to see our mind for what it is and understand how it creates feelings and emotions that aren’t real. They feel real because of what our association is to them, but their reality is only relative to our thinking and the association to our identity. When this is discovered and we disassociate with this kind of thinking, we become more aligned with the Creative Intelligence of the Universe which to me is love; love is what gives us so many more options in life.

When we stop attaching to the nonsense of the self created world of thought, we learn how to allow love to be our guide. This is when we will be able to see our thoughts for what they truly are. Disassociate them from who we are and separate the ones that cause suffering and aren’t beneficial to anyone; this is when our suffering ceases to exist. This is not some belief, it’s something factual and I know this because it’s my direct experience. A thought cannot cause anything unless it’s given the energy needed to do so and this is what determines if the thought is held onto or not. The more it’s held onto, the more control it has over you. In the awareness of this is one’s freedom. It’s one’s own ignorance of this that creates suffering. And the suffering is caused by going through life without an understanding of how the mind works because it limits your options and with limited options your choices are limited…

The Hole Of Loneliness

When the mind settles the need to reach for something lessens. In the process the hole of loneliness closes and it’s simply because an “I” story of a hole isn’t being created…

The hole of loneliness seems to get wider as one ages, but it doesn’t really. What happens is there are just less distractions so “I” takes more of a hold. The natural process of life seems to be to stay busy trying to figure things out. Regardless of what exactly the figuring out manifest as, it certainly creates a lot of distractions. There are periods in between the busyness where a person has some idle time and probably feels the hole of loneliness, but it doesn’t usually last very long because the busyness of trying to figure out life returns. This busyness last most of one’s life, but there does come a time that the natural process of being busy lessens. At this stage many people experience a loneliness that hasn’t been noticed before so it will either be addressed by looking inward or one will get busy again trying to figure out how to fill the hole.

Eventually the busyness will end for whatever reason, but unfortunately for most people without the busyness the hole of loneliness rears its ugly head. Many elderly people struggle to fill this hole because there just isn’t a lot going on. Kids are grown, retirement, house paid off, more time behind you than what’s in front, and the list goes on using distraction after distraction. There were very brief periods for me of not needing to reach, but these periods were far a few in between. That is until fifteen years ago when the whole engulfed me. I began sitting and simply looking inward which allowed me to see the distractions of my “I” needing to attach to a story. As I sat the mind settled and thus needing to reach for something lessened. In the process the hole of loneliness closed and it was simply because an “I” story of a hole wasn’t created…

Inevitable Change

Change is inevitable, it’s a natural part of the process of life. Resistance to change is also inevitable, but not for those who have the wisdom to accept it and move on…

Wisdom doesn’t just happen to a person, it takes quietness from within to become aware of the most beneficial way to live life. This is wisdom brought into alliance with the Universe. It just doesn’t become the way we live our life, it becomes the way we want to live our life. It doesn’t mean everything becomes perfect, it just allows for a solid direction that puts you in harmony with life. When this occurs and life does its thing which is to constantly change, a wisdom base doesn’t get emotionally controlled by the inevitable changes of life. Life may never seem perfect, but alas it always is. Whatever it is that’s occurring is perfection because it‘s what’s happening. You may not like it, but that’s not life’s imperfection, it’s yours.

When you understand the wisdom of non attachment, you can be with life and all its inevitable changes. If you let these changes control you, your reactions will not be conducive to your well-being and you will suffer. Acceptance of change is the acceptance of peace. Non acceptance of change is the cause of so many of our dysfunctional emotional reactions. When your given life is accepted and you see the wisdom of this acceptance, you’ll react to the inevitable changes of life in alliance with the Universe, not because you have to, but because you want to…

Mind Clutter

A cluttered mind can’t quiet on its own regardless of the belief system that’s in place. Beliefs actually hinder the quieting because they’re just a mind cluttered response that blocks the quieting…

If your mind clutter is in control and running your life, it doesn’t matter much what’s going on, it’s going to be difficult to quiet. It’s such a cluttered world and what makes it so is most people are looking for an answer outward when the answer is inward. What the mind clutter 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 clutter. This is how the clutter of a Conditioned Mind is formed and how it blocks awareness. It’s clutter created because if you knew you had your answers, the need to look for them would be non existent and so would the mind clutter.

Everyone has the ability to consciously be aware of the mind clutter, but it’s just not something that happens on its owns. It’s a beautiful thing that your life is in your hands and that it’s totally up to each individual what is done with it. A little quiet equates to a little usefulness so it’s up to each individual to do what’s necessary to become more aware of the mind clutter. As you’re more aware of being present the mind clutter untangles and you’re left with quietness. If you’re waiting for anything else, it most likely won’t happen while you’re alive in this form as the mind clutter will remain in control…

Distracted Lie

Truth arises when a person looks at themselves, all sorts of things happen when this arises. For most though the distracted mind creates a lie to avoid the truth…

It’s unfortunate, but most people live a life of distracted lies more so than one of truth. They believe they’re living by truth, but upon further investigation this fallacy can be seen. On the outside the lie seems so much better and this is what keeps a person distracted by it; one’s conditioning is what makes it seem better. Truth arises when a person looks at themselves. All sorts of things happen when truth arises. Without this understanding truth is avoided as if it was the plague. Becoming aware of the distracted lies so truth can be revealed is essential in understanding oneself. Sit with the assumption that you will sit in stillness and watch how little stillness there is. Just sit and be with whatever is there, that’s where stillness is. When the mind isn’t looking for anything, it’s still.

Only a distracted mind needs to create a lie, and only with being with the distraction does the mind settle. This doesn’t mean changes aren’t made, but when changes aren’t necessary the mind is settled. This is why to me there’s no positive or negative, because if it’s negative and you want something positive, it’s no different than if you are positive and you don’t want anything negative. A distracted mind is a mind that needs things to be a certain way whether it’s positive or negative. This is the distracted lie, but the truth is nothing needs to be different and the mind will settle when life is accepted without the distraction of positive or negative…

Repeated Reactions

The repeated reactions of a Conditioned Mind can be devastating if they’re not understood. The repeated reactions manifest in many ways, but when the mind is quiet many fall by the wayside; that’s when life truly begins…

The reason why it’s so difficult to change is because the mind defaults to repeated reactions; even to the point of its own destruction. The conditioning must be changed if the repeated behavior is to be changed. If this isn’t identified the behavior is repeated over and over, that is until the necessary practice is cultivated to initiate change. If nothing changes nothing changes. If the conditioning is changed the repeated behavior becomes non existent. You don’t change the behavior because it’s a by product of the conditioning. When there’s quietness instead of conditioning there won’t be any repeated behavior associated with the conditioning.

This is immensely valuable in understanding the incessantness of the mind. If quietness isn’t brought into your life the noise in the head will continue to run the show. It really is that simple. You have been conditioned to act in repeated ways, whether those ways are beneficial to yourself, others, the planet, and the Universe as a whole, depends on what the base of those ways are. Their base is what determines the results of our decisions and how they affect the entire Universe. You may not think you acting in a self serving way affects the Universe, but how can it not. Energy is energy, never created or destroyed, simply transformed.

No act is isolated from itself, whether based in love or greed, hate, and delusion; it affects the whole. But the real issue is getting to know how the repeated reactions of your mind makes your decisions for you. Change comes when this is realized and than different behavior can be selected. Your own mind will fight you on this, it makes you think the unknown is not good, but it’s only a story because everything that is known today was once unknown at some point. So learn to quiet the squirrel cage mind so the repeated reactions aren’t on automatic pilot. You’ll be amazed with the way life changes because when you start to do things differently and act in ways that are conducive to love suffering lessens. Its truly that simple, but because the mind likes to revert to what it knows change is not easy…