Insights Uncovered

A quiet mind gains insight by allowing one’s unconsciousness to be uncovered. This inner space of quietness is where all truth awaits to be uncovered, but only when quietness is the focus…

A true understanding of life cannot be uncovered by doing. There are many highly intelligent people who never understand life. This doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with intelligence, but you become what you focus on. For me, insights came when the cause of why I struggled so much with life was uncovered; the struggle was because I was focused on a non-beneficial view (selfish). Now the focus isn’t so much on a made up beneficial view, but more so on not being focused on the view that caused my struggles. This is what a quiet mind affords a person, it has nothing to do with intelligence. Choose any view that’s wanted, but understand the view in place is what you focus on and it’s what will manifest as life; unconsciousness is the struggle.

Focus on quietness and insights will be uncovered, but only when there’s awareness of unconsciousness; this is how life ceases to be a struggle. Use whatever tools that work to get quiet and focus on that. The mind will settle more and more into a state of quietness that allows insights to be uncovered. Becoming truly insightful isn’t for a select few, it’s available to anyone. It takes an understanding that quietness has nothing to do with intellect, that it’s something which occurs as a result of your focus on the inner space within. You can only become quiet when that’s the focus, not to the point where it’s a doing, but to the point where it’s what’s there because that’s the focus. To me, insights are uncovered when unconsciousness is uncovered which occurs when quietness is the focus…

Created Lack

There’s never a lack that isn’t created so there’s never a true need to reach outside yourself for anything. Until this is seen you will continue the suffering of lack…

Every time someone reaches for something designed for a specific issue, it’s because they believe there’s lacking in them. Same when a person goes to see a therapist, or they reach for another self help book, program, or if any other type of outside help is sought; this is because of the applied label of lack. When this is done all you’re doing is reinforcing the attachment to that label and hence you’re keeping yourself attached that there’s lack; there’s lack only because you have labeled it. Read this very carefully because why this label is being applied will be the difference in being complete or remaining entrapped to lack. Some of the things mentioned above do have value if they’re used at certain times in the one’s life. If they’re being held onto as an end to a means, they lose their value as the needing morphs into lack and hence suffering.

Not many will see exactly what I’m talking about here, but I’m writing it because it’s what I experienced after many years of trying to fill lack with things from the outside. I have found the very things that I was using to fill what I thought was lack is what kept me reaching; regardless of what was being used. Why I thought there was lack is what I needed to find out because it didn’t truly exist; since it didn’t truly exist why was it there. To me if something from the outside is needed to live life, something isn’t right. If I can’t just be with myself without thinking there’s lack, I have to ask myself why this is so. There‘s never a lack that isn’t created so there’s never a true need to reach outside yourself for anything. Until this is seen you will continue to think you lack and thus create your own suffering…

Hamster Wheel Energy

As long as there is seeking there will always be seeking and you’ll remain on the hamster wheel path, exerting all kinds of energy, but not really getting anywhere…

What keeps a person stuck on the hamster wheel path of seeking is trying to manufacture peace, love, kindness, mindfulness, spirituality, and so on instead of aligning yourself with the present moment which allows these attributes to arise naturally. This is what keeps the hamster wheel energy in place. The energy of seeking is circular (like a hamster wheel) so it’s never going to produce anything that’s going to free you from the hamster wheel energy. You may bounce to a seemingly different energy because it’s given a different label, but as long as you think you have to do something to manufacture a certain desired result, hamster wheel energy will continue regardless of what it’s called, and so you will remain on the path to no where.

This hamster wheel energy of seeking makes a person use an array of things, from sweets, drugs, alcohol, gambling, tv, success, sex, programs, another book, retreats, a path, meditation, and many other things. What these all have in common is they keep you attached to the hamster wheel energy of seeking which is a byproduct of the Conditioned Mind. A true transformation of the spirit cannot be manufactured because seeking energy is the exact energy that blocks the alignment which allows energy to transform. Only when you detach from the hamster wheel can a transformation or shift occur. As long as there is seeking there will always be seeking and you will remain on the hamster wheel path, exerting all kinds of energy, but not really getting anywhere…

The Love of Jesus

The love of Jesus is the love of our own heart, but if the human self is attached to and becomes the default setting of life, it will be impossible to understand the love of your own heart…

When life begins, there aren’t any blocks developed to our heart of love. Slowly though as we age we develop these blocks to our heart of love by forming the attachment to a human self. It’s not to deny our humanness, but non attachment is key to truly experiencing a heart of love. The more thought that is applied to our humanness, the less in touch we are with our true essence to love. This is the love that Jesus spoke of and what he taught. The love of existence that through him would bring us to God, or the term he used “Father.”

You may ask, why do we need Jesus, why not go directly to God? Because through Jesus we are taught how to have a heart that is pure in love. Very few people have a heart that is pure because of the way that our self is attached to and developed. Without a genuine heart of love it’s virtually impossible to go to God directly, to me this is what Jesus taught. Without getting wrapped up in the religious aspect look at this take from a practical level. Jesus has a heart that is pure love, he is divine in nature as we all are, but as it is told, his attachment to a human self was never developed and his heart remained in a state of purity. He mediated, prayed, and ceaselessly submitted to God. His entire being, every waking moment of his existence was for the soul purpose to love. So there was no attachment with a self to block the purity of his heart. Love isn’t a belief in something, it’s our birthright, it’s the true essence of existence without the nonsense that the Conditioned Mind makes up.

To understand the love of your heart, study what Jesus taught. For many, the human self is conditioned to a point where prejudice is formed and the love that Jesus spoke of is blocked. It will be very difficult to truly have a heart of love if this is the case. The human conditioned self is a block to our true essence. Because of this the heart will not be pure enough to see its own love. So the moral of this story is, don’t attach to the human self so it becomes the default setting of life, and the pure love of the heart of Jesus will be the love that is of your own heart…

Loving Yourself

You can only act in ways that arise from within you. A trigger activates your Conditioned Mind and you act accordingly. Love yourself and as the mind settles what’s within you will change…

Unity with others is dependent on learning to love yourself unconditionally because if you judge yourself there’s no way you won’t judge others. In your judgements, your unity with yourself and others will be fleeting at best. Unity with humanity doesn’t start with humanity, it starts with you because if you can’t love yourself there’s no way you’ll will be able to love anyone else. You may be able to love people for a time if they’re as you want them to be, but they remaining that way will also be fleeting at best. This ability to love yourself will only occur when you know our own mind, and only in the sense of how it’s the cause of not loving yourself.

Think of this, when you act in a way that’s not in your best interest, it comes from you. You unconsciously act in a way that isn’t beneficial to your own well being; this is done all the time. These acts come from your own mind. It’s not the way that you act that causes the problem, wanting it different causes the problem, even though it being different is impossible because its already been done. So love yourself and the next time something triggers your Conditioned Mind to act in a way that’s not in your best interest, you may be able to pause and not do it, but if you do act in a way that’s not beneficial, move on. When the mind settles enough through loving yourself, what’s within you will change with the understanding you are enough just as you are because it’s what’s there. Just know there’s always room to change what’s not loving or beneficial…

Conditional Suffering

The conditional way of the world is to cope with suffering by suffering. This is the conditioned delusion in place that keeps one suffering by attaching to the conditioning that causes suffering…

When you wake up and see the delusion of the attached conditioning that’s in place, it’s freeing, but only to the extent that the conditioning is let go of. This basically means going against the way that most people view life, and although waking up doesn’t make a person special, it does make one seem odd or peculiar because they aren’t in line with the conditional way everyone else responds to life situations.

This writing stems from the fact that a woman I know is going through the stages of Alzheimer’s. What has arisen in me is seeing how much suffering this situation is causing all those who are involved with it. Although the suffering is optional, it’s not seen in this way because of the coping mechanisms caused by attaching to the delusional conditioning the world has in place; this is delusional thinking even though it seems in line with the world. Understanding this affords you the awareness of not being pulled into the suffering, but it’s perceived by others as though a person doesn’t care about what’s happening. It’s only the delusional conditioning of attachment that causes one to suffer with any situation. The conditional way of the world is to cope with suffering by suffering. It’s seen as suffering causes more suffering. Although the one who wakes up from the sleep of this conditional delusion may be looked upon by others as being peculiar, odd or not caring, the alternative is to attach to the conditional way that suffering has to cause more suffering. Insanity to say the least…

Need To Do Mind

A mind that needs to do is a mind that has premeditated ideas based on a sense of self, and because of this there’s no space to see what’s truly going on…

As long as the mind needs to do, it can’t be at peace; at the core of this doing is the sense of self. The sense of self may be the hardest concept to let go of because it’s interwoven with just about every thought. It has also been in place since your existence began, but it’s not the sense of self that’s controlling, it’s the attachment to it. I have a sense of self, how can I not, there’s existence, but the attachment to it has lessened significantly in the last few years. This has opened enough space to allow what’s in place today. This is not to say I don’t sometimes attach to the sense of self, but never like the first forty nine years of my life.

What most people who question what I write about don’t realize is, I understand how my mind works because I’ve sat and investigated why I reacted and did the things that I did. Very few truly investigate their Conditioned Mind and this leads to a mind that needs to do. This doesn’t make me better or smarter than anyone knowing this, but by having an understanding of the lies that controlled me for so many years, this does allow me to not attach to them. I would have to say therein lies the difference between having the need to do or being free to just be. This also creates the difference between the need to do limits or the unlimited expansion of just being…