Inner Distress

The inner distress that keeps you from your peace has nothing to do with life. The distress is a creation of your own mind that makes you believe you’re not at peace…

There are practical ways to minimize the inner distress that causes one to sabotage their own existence, but it has to be understood that the mind creating the distress can’t quiet itself. You’ll have to find out why your own mind is telling you distress is needed to cope with life; a life that is controlled by the conditioning to create inner distress. Your own mind creates all the inner distress you have by choosing to attach to thoughts that give the distress energy. This unconscious conditioning is why distress arises. The Conditioned Mind creates this as you do things that are destructive to your own well being. Why this distressful mind set is developed I’m not sure, but I do know it can be described only as insane because your own mind does this.

I know now it was my own mind that created distress which arose from within myself. Because of the shift that occurred some years ago there‘s now awareness so inner distress doesn’t have to be created anymore. I sit for the sole purpose to develop discipline which allows the mind to settle. If there isn’t discipline, your conditioning won’t be understood nor will the reason why distress arises. This will lead you to being led around like a puppet on a string. Life does nothing to you, it’s your own mind that does this. Living in a place of distress as opposed to a place of peace will never be different until the conditioning that makes it so is different. All I ever wanted was to be at peace, but it was always elusive because I wasn’t aware it was my own mind that created the inner distress that made peace elusive…

Unblocked Mind State

When one awakens, an unblocked mind state is provided which allows a clear view of your actions. With this unblocked mind state you become aware if the affects of your actions are truly beneficial…

Having an unblocked mind state allows for the ability to decipher the immediate affect of your actions and your current view. A unblocked mind state doesn’t allow a greed, hate, and delusion mind state to arise. In seeing the affects of greed, hate, and delusion for what they are and their controlling characteristics, you just may be able to pause them for a millisecond. If this isn’t seen these characteristics will continue their monkey mind control.

Observe the different mind states which are greed, hate and delusion and their polar opposites, generosity, love, and wisdom. These are the blocked and unblocked mind states most people fluctuate between. With an unblocked mind state you see how your actions and the associated consequences are linked. What happens first is you can decipher the mind state associated with the action, and second it’s seen if the associated action is beneficial. It’s very easy to see rage and its association with the mind state of hate. It doesn’t take much intelligence to see how this action isn’t beneficial to anyone. Without awareness of this one remains entrapped to the mind state of hate and hence the associated actions. Intelligence has no bearing on this whatsoever.

It also works this way with the action of giving. Giving with no attached expectation is an action associated with the mind state of generosity. You can definitely see how this action benefits everyone; to me this is what an awakening is. One isn’t rendered white as snow because of becoming awake. No one among us can cast the first stone, but by the mind settling your view becomes unblocked and you become aware of your actions, and the associated mind state of those actions. It can then be seen that your unblocked actions are truly a benefit not only to yourself, but to all beings…

Directed Awareness

There’s no suffering in the space of awareness because there’s no attachment. Being aware of your “I” attachment and not holding onto it allows awareness to be what directs your life…

The struggle one has with life is strictly mind based and it’s because there’s no solid structure to the mind. Being led by the mind is equivalent to building a house on sand; we all know what happens when the first storm comes. Often mind based information is held onto which keeps you trapped to the mind. I know how deeply ingrained the conditioning is and I know sometimes I may come on strong, but it’s only because what‘s seen can’t be ignored. 

There are basically two forces that direct the mind. One is suffering, the other is awareness (non suffering). These forces manifest in many way. The core of suffering is attachment to “I” (selfishness). This force leads as greed, envy, anger, pride, desire, doubt, restlessness, regret and so on. You can see how these will cause suffering. If this is the direction that guides your mind, you will suffer. The other force is awareness, which leads as kindness, generosity, compassion, empathy, understanding, stillness, and so on. I’m sure you can see how these don’t cause suffering. Make no mistake though you will still encounter the possibility of suffering even with being led by awareness because of how ingrained the conditioning is. But if attachment to “I” isn’t in place suffering will be at a minimum. To me the key is being aware of “I” attachment and not holding onto it. Without it what directs your life will be from awareness, and there’s no suffering in this space because awareness simply has no attachment…

Stuck Thoughts

Nothing from the outside truly controls you regardless of what it is. It’s the stuck thoughts attaching to what happens that causes them to control you…

Staying with the flow of what arises in our daily life has immense value in the process of waking up from the sleep of unawareness. What happens if awareness isn’t expanded upon is, stuck thoughts arise and control you; they become the master and you their slave. Stuck thoughts are what causes one to react to life in the way that they do. Nothing from the outside truly controls you either real or made up. It’s the stuck thoughts attaching to what happens that causes one to behave in a certain manner. When one awakens, the attachment to stuck thoughts lessens and their control lessens.

This is how it is with stuck thoughts, fear becomes crippling when it becomes stuck and takes you over. It’s doesn’t mean things won’t scare you, but it’s doesn’t have to be given the energy that turns it into fear. This applies to any stuck thought you become attached to. The associated thought becomes stuck and there’s no telling what behavior will arise. I guarantee you it’s not going to be a behavior that has love flowing as its base. Thoughts will arise, it’s the way the brain seems to be wired, but our energy doesn’t have to give them more power than they’re worth. We can cry our tears or be fearful of the future. We can dislike that things aren’t going the way we think they should be. The bottom line is it’s only when the thoughts are stuck that they are given the energy to stop the flow of truly living life, which causes not only your own suffering, but the suffering of all beings…

Intuitive Truth

Truth isn’t a made up story nor is something that can be manufactured. There‘s only awareness of it when the lies are exposed, so expose your lies and truth will intuitively arise…

To me it’s clear what truth is and here’s why, fifteen years ago I started to look into a different way to live my life, and at the core of this looking was the exposure of my lies. I didn’t know much about anything, but I did know I needed a different way to view life. I understood one thing, that my own mind was the cause as to why there were lies, so I set out to find out why this was and if it was possible to change this. As this process of self inquiry proceeded, my lies were slowly being exposed and as this happened my life become less and less about the lies. It didn’t become about anything else, it just wasn’t all about the lie of needing to fulfill my wants and desires; when this happens awakened qualities (truth) intuitively arise. This doesn’t mean everything goes your way, it doesn’t matter how it goes because there aren’t the lies of a story of wanting and needing things a certain way; without a story truth is intuitively revealed.

Truth is difficult to describe in words because it’s interpreted differently by everyone, but I have found truth arises intuitively from the space of what is. What is has many labels dependent on what’s occurring at the time. It can be horrible, beautiful, or neutral, the label doesn’t change what’s actually occurring, being in the space of what’s occurring changes it and that’s because without a label there aren’t lies, there’s only space. In this space there aren’t any lies so that’s when truth is intuitively revealed. It’s not a made up truth, it’s the truth of just being in the space of what’s here right now and not needing to add a lie to it. In this space is where you’ll become aware of truth, but it has nothing to do with you directly; it’s a truth that intuitively arises when the lies are exposed…

Recurring Behavior

The recurring behavior of a Conditioned Mind can be devastating if it’s not understood. The recurring behavior manifests in many ways. When the mind quiets many fall away; that’s when life truly begins…

The reason why it’s so difficult to change is because the mind defaults to recurring behavior; even to the point of its own destruction. The conditioning must be changed if the recurring behavior is to be changed. If this isn’t identified the behavior recurs over and over, that is until the necessary practice is cultivated to stop this. If nothing changes nothing changes. If the conditioning is changed the recurring 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 recurring behavior associated with the conditioning.

This is immensely valuable in the understanding of recurring behavior. If quietness isn’t brought into your life, the noise in the head will continue to rule. You have been conditioned to behave in recurring ways. Whether those ways are beneficial depends on the base of your conditioning. The base is what determines the results of your decisions and how they affect the entire Universe. You may not think acting in a self-serving way affects the Universe, but it does. Energy is energy, never created or destroyed, simply transformed.

No act is isolated from itself, whether based in love, greed, hate, or delusion; it affects the whole. The real issue is getting to know how your recurring conditioning makes decisions for you. Change happens when this is realized; that’s when different behavior arises. 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. So learn to quiet the squirrel cage mind so the recurring behavior isn’t the automatic way to go. You’ll be amazed with the way life changes when you start to do things differently and act in ways that are conducive to love. It’s truly that simple, but because the Conditioned Mind likes to revert back to the recurring behavior it knows, change is not easy…

The Need for More

While you’re busy making plans life happens. If you’re not careful most of it will be missed because you’ll be too busy convincing yourself more is needed…

The only thing that makes a person think something more is needed to enhance life is their own conditioning. Until this is realized, this conditioning will keep you in the state of more is needed. This state of more is needed is a constant for most, so this means most are missing what life truly offers. If a person is alive life will be experienced, but ask yourself is your life being fully lived or are you under the spell of your own Conditioned Mind that makes you think more is needed. Needing more is the default setting of most minds; unfortunately so much of life will be missed because of this. This is a mind agitation that keeps needing more in place which doesn’t allow any contentment with what’s actually taking place.

Grab more of whatever you think you need, but except for a few brief moments contentment will be fleeting. Sit and visualize having all the riches of the world and see how this really changes your life. It will only be a matter of time before something more will be needed. This is because regardless of what one has or what’s going on, if there isn’t some level of contentment with the way things are, you will constantly convince yourself more is needed, and the need for more will always be…