Everything is Temporary

Life is dynamic, but sometimes we make things a burden as if it’s always going to be this way. This makes life a delusion that what’s happening will never pass, but everything is temporary…

Making something that’s occurring in the moment as if it’s going to be this way forever, is why one gets swept away by a made up storms. They’re not truly storms, they take on the energy they’re given as if what’s occurring right now is always going to be this way. Once the energy of it’s always going to be this way is seen, the tool of “Everything is Temporary” can be applied. When one is struggling with something the greatest understanding you can have is that it’s your own mind that creates every obstacle to your inner peace regardless of how life unfolds; if this isn’t understood inner peace will never be had.

Everything is temporary even if what occurs is made permanent by your mind. This goes for everything including life itself so no matter what it is one day it will not be so. Here is one of my favorite examples of this: If you visit a doctor because you’re not feeling well and are told you have a year to live, do you want to die 365 times or once? A mind that‘s settled can see the truth of this and hence the freedom and value of only dying once. Or not and die everyday until the time comes when conditions that support living in this form are no longer met. We are only visitors here regardless of what happens in life and no matter how tight the hold is on something, everything is temporary…

Non-Factual Beliefs

When you can only see and attach to non-factual beliefs, therein lies the root to suffering. It’s in letting go of these beliefs that you will see there are many parts to the whole, this reveals the factual emptiness of all things…

When you stay attached to non-factual beliefs, life becomes stagnant. Although life is still experienced, it’s seen this way by everyone except those who don’t see life through a belief; this is the state of emptiness which needs no belief. Everything is a part of the whole so nothing is truly what a non-factual belief makes it out to be. When you look at a tree and apply the belief the tree is its parts, the trunk, limbs, branches, and leaves, the true nature of the tree is lost. If you can see this with the tree, you can see it with everything, including yourself. Without a belief of you, where is the you? Most don’t even think about the parts that make up this you.

There is much freedom in seeing this because it allows for the factual emptiness of all things to be revealed, and when you see there’s nothing to believe in no matter what so you are free. Another example is you give a form that keeps track of time and call it a watch. There are so many parts to it, which part is truly the watch? Beliefs will keep you in ignorance because they will block out seeing the true nature of factual emptiness in all things. With beliefs you can only see and attach to form and therein lies the root to all suffering. It’s in letting go of your beliefs in all forms that you will see there are just parts which reveals the emptiness of all things…

Past Controlled Present

If past thoughts are constantly repeated they’ll control the present; this means the past will be where you live your life. This is unfortunate because all the emotional pain of the past will be carried into the present…

The amount of times a past thought is repeated with its emotional pain is mind boggling because it’s your own mind that does this; it probably happens thousands of times throughout your life. Most people suffer endlessly because past thoughts are repeated constantly. This allows them into the present, and although the body is always in the present, the mind is constantly in the past. This is the constant state of most people and if nothing is done to change this, it will continue until existence in this form ends. This isn’t a philosophy or theory nor is it something I made up, you need only look at this for yourself to see this truth. If you don’t look at it you will most likely remain stuck in the past without a way to stop it.

We as a species seem to be lost, to me it’s because looking at ourselves in an investigative way is not something most are willing to do. It’s so much easier to point the finger at someone than look at yourself, but unfortunately when you point your finger at someone there are three pointing back at you; check this to see its truth. You can ignore this and keep repeating the same story that everything will work out or you can take control of your life; at least to some extent and stop repeating thoughts that cause your own suffering. After all the same thoughts constantly arise, and if they’re not attached to, eventually they’ll stop and so will the repeated emotional suffering they cause…

Surface Viewer

The root of all struggles are deep, they’re not just at the surface level. They’re rooted in the structure of how you think. If you don’t investigate this beyond being a surface viewer, nothing will ever change…

Changing the surface viewer mind structure is like turning a ship. The intention to turn happens right away, but the turn itself is very gradual. It’s as though we know we need to start turning right away, but we don’t see below the surface. Here’s a simple suggestion if you want to get in touch with breaking free of this ingrained surface viewer structure, and it’s not complicated. When you do something, investigate what the surface viewer sees. No reason to go back and look for a traumatic incident, why it’s seen only from the surface viewer level is sufficient.

If the need to reach for something happens because life throws you a curve ball, and you don’t investigate why the need to reach arose, you’ll probably use a surface distraction not to succumb to it. By doing this you’ll never be free because you’ll never get in touch with why the surface viewer is in place. Investigating why you’re a surface viewer is the most important thing you can do for yourself when something is done that’s not in your best interest. If you don’t, you will just substitute one thing for another and in the process remain trapped to what’s causing the need to reach. You may not like this post and you may even ignore it, but don’t be surprised when the next life curve ball comes and you find yourself reaching for something, you just won’t know why because you’re seeing it as a surface viewer…

Specific View Limits

No view is inherently wrong, but if you only have a specific one, it limits life and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from that specific view…

Changing views is what makes life different, but it doesn’t make what happens in life different, it only makes the view of what happens different. If you’re locked into a specific view, this only allows one way of seeing things. The more a view is intellect based, the harder it will be for there to be a shift to see things from another view. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the intellect, it just doesn’t allow for much openness. When one sees things from a specific view, it limits life to that one view. Most times this view isn’t even your own, it’s formed from someone else’s opinion, teaching, book, video, or discussion.

To be fixated on a specific view keeps you entrapped to the results of only that view; think about how limiting that is. No possibility of another view, always going down the same path, never allowing anything new. This is so limiting, but with only seeing things through a specific view how limiting this is will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the minds grip lessens can assist in possibly altering a specific view mind set, but there has to an inkling there’s another way to see things. It’s not that any way is wrong, it’s just that having only a specific view limits life, and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from the specific view…

Controlling Energy

When you aren’t being controlled by energy based on outer things, therein lies your freedom. It isn’t freedom because life is the way that it’s wanted, there’s freedom because you’re with life the way that it is…

The energy that control your life make your life what it is. It doesn’t make life what it is because life just is, but it makes YOUR life what it is and until the energy in place puts you in harmony with life there won’t be any, and hence your life will be the way that it is because it’s the way you are making it. It’s actually a beautiful thing when you become aware of this because it puts your life in your hands; there’s nothing more satisfying. When you aren’t being controlled by energy based on outer things therein lies your freedom; freedom because you’re with life the way that it is.

What happens with the mind that has energy not based in love is it gets hijacked by its own conditioning so you’re held hostage by your own mind. I know this sounds crazy, but this is exactly what’s happens, and it’s all because of the energy based to self-serve. When the energy in place is controlled by a me, me, me mind, crazy is the norm because of this energy. When the energy changes, the craziness subsides. When you sit and see what the base of your energy is, you just may be able to change them. It will take time though because of the conditioning in place, but the alternative is to remain the way you are; being controlled by energy that holds you hostage…

What's Next Impermanence

When impermanence is understood, the craving for fulfillment of what’s next is replaced with acceptance because one day what’s next will never occur and prove just how impermanent life really is…

Nobody knows the future, but what does the future matter if the present isn’t being lived to the fullest. No one really know what’s going to happen next, but we all know death at least in this form will one day happen next, its just not known when that is. This is just a factual part of life regardless of any belief, one day this body will cease to support life as it is known today. We can make up a place that we are going to go to when life in this form ends, but the body is going to become void of life, and it will either be cremated or decay 6 feet underground. If this one truth can be understood nothing else would truly matter because the impermanence of all things would be seen. And once this is seen life takes on an entirely different dynamic.

No longer is there something needed for fulfillment when this dynamic occurs because it’s realized life is already fulfilled. How can it not be with the understanding that all you need you already have and all that you have has no lasting substance to it. If everything is impermanent, everything is temporary, so nothing will bring fulfillment to life except an understanding that life is already fulfilled. Everything is a temporary fix that’s why things are constantly reached for. If there wasn’t a craving to be fulfilled, there wouldn’t be a need to reach for an impermanent fix. Why the understanding of impermanence has so much value is because the craving for fulfillment is replaced with acceptance of what happens next because one day what happens next will never occur; just something to ponder…