Predictable Results

When the energy of life is based to self-serve you reap those predictable results. You cannot be but what you are, so love and produce those predictable results…

Everyone has their own inner journey to discover the things that will make life beneficial to ourselves and others. We all use different things for this and there is no one way to accomplish this; though some ways are more beneficial than others. Obviously when something is done and it brings harm to another person there will be harsher predictable results than if the action was based in love; even if you don’t get caught. I’m not one to say “God is always watching so God knows” I don’t truly know that, but I do know I cannot hide from predictable results, and that is the one I have to answer to. I can lie to you, I can even lie to me, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be predictable results.

Understanding ourselves is our journey. When we do things that are of a self-serving nature, we along with others pay the predictable price for that. Even if the predictable results aren’t seen from self-serving actions, they are there. So many diseases are linked to self-serving results, they just aren’t labeled in that way. Suffering predictable results from diabetes, cancer, depression, stress, anxiety, just to name a few can be linked to self-serving behavior in some way. This is not a belief, this is a medical fact. When one is of love, the predictable results of suffering are at a minimum. It’s very important to develop awareness of this so there’s the possibility of going beyond the self-serving predictable results…

Consciously Aware

Everyone who is alive is at least semi conscious; this is basically true for all beings. Where humans differ from other species is in the ability to be consciously aware…

A friend shared a story about a ferret he has as a pet. It seemed the ferret actually liked this person. He would hold the ferret and it would fall asleep in his arms. It would lick his hand and take food from him. One day as the ferret was eating out of a bowl, this person took the food away before the ferret was finished. The ferret bit and scratched his hand, so much for liking the individual. The ferret knew his food was being taken away, but it ended there. There was no awareness of who was actually taking the food, his food was being taken away and the ferret didn’t like it. This is how many humans react to situations, they like people as long as they don’t take away what they like.

To go beyond this mindset there must be awareness of it. This is where we as humans differ. Other species don’t have this ability to be consciously aware. If you look around it would seem most humans don’t have this ability either. What will have to transpire at some point in your life for this to change is truly being conscious of being aware; noticing what arises when what is liked is taken away or just when something naturally changes. This is key if you’re not going to be drawn into the unconsciousness of what’s changing. Suffering comes from not being consciously aware of being controlled by what’s liked. When there’s awareness of this, one can be conscious of it, but not attach to it, thus one is free. What you like will still be taken away at times, but hopefully you are consciously aware of this and you won’t bite or scratch when it happens…

Old habit Reality

For many, old habits have way too much control over what is done today. Until this is identified and old habits are let go of, you will continue to be controlled by them as if you were a puppet on a string…

Understanding that living life today in the present as opposed to living it from old habits, is the difference in being at peace or being controlled by conditioning. When you’re living in the present you’re with true reality, not an old habit reality. When there isn’t the present reality, there’s the delusional state of old habits which makes for very little if any peace in your life.

The reality of what’s occurring in the present means if you’re reading this post, that’s reality. There’s nothing else going on beyond what’s happening right now. There may be something going on between your ears, but that’s the created delusional state of old habits (what isn’t). The bottom line is, your old habits are not the reality of what’s occurring in the present.

The mind has been conditioned to think it has to use old habits to create a life that’s better than the one that’s occurring presently; this is what keeps you from truly living life. I’m not sure why this is, but I do know it has to do with influences beyond one’s control. To me what matters is to develop a disciplined method of sitting which allows you to break free of the control of these old habit influences. Control is control so the more you’re controlled by old habits, the less reality there will be. Unless you live in the present reality, and learn how to identify old habits influences, it will be impossible to ever be free because you’ll remain under the spell of your old habits…

Mind Created Lies

There are many lies to what an awakening is, for those awake there’s awareness of these lies. Remember this, the mind that creates lies is the same mind that reinforces the lies…

All lies are a creation of the mind, until there’s awareness of this the lies remain. One of the most important things to realize when it comes to lessening the mind lies is, the mind that creates lies is the same mind that reinforces the lies. Think about how it’s your own mind creating lies, so you’re basically lying to yourself. What’s crazy about this is it’s like there are two minds with different views. This goes on in most lives every single day without realizing it, but don’t be fooled by the lies because even the view that isn’t a lie can create lies; to be awake is to be aware of this.

An awakening isn’t a mystical mind state, it’s simply about becoming aware of the thoughts that are lies, that’s basically it. It’s in this awareness that one naturally stops attaching to the lying thoughts. Being awake doesn’t stop them from arising, but there’s awareness they’re there; the attachment to the lies is seen. Until there’s awareness of this, the mind will continue to create lies and reinforce them. It does this to distract you from the truth. And as long as there are lies without awareness, you’ll continue to be controlled by a mind that holds you in captivity to its lies…

Wanting More

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

The only thing that makes a person think something more is wanted to enhance life is their own conditioning. Until this is realized, this conditioning will keep you in the state of wanting more. This state of wanting more is a constant for most, 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 want more. Wanting more is the default setting of most minds; unfortunately so much of life is missed because of this. This is a mind agitation that keeps wanting more in place which doesn’t allow any contentment with what’s actually taking place.

Grab more of whatever you think you want, 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 is wanted. 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 you want more, and wanting more will always be…

Sense Reliance

Sense reliance creates a prison to a self that blocks love from being the guiding energy of daily living, and although you may be alive, reliance on the senses doesn’t allow you to truly live…

Sense reliance creates a prison to the material world of self. How controlling this is determines the degree that the senses have a hold on you; make no mistake, sense reliance is self-serving reliance regardless of what is used. Alcohol or drugs are only different than soda because of their devastating consequences. No matter what’s used sense reliance keeps you in prison. I’d like to address something much more subtle than some substance or object and that is the reliance on your own mind is the real prison.

A substance or object can hold you in captivity, but it’s the mind that puts you in the place of sense reliance. Without the mind telling you sense reliance is needed, it would be non existent. The subtleness of this sense reliance is literally mind boggling. Take an alarm clock as an example, as soon as the alarm rings, if the snooze button is hit, instantly the mind makes the self want the moment to be in some other way. If this mind set isn’t altered to bring about awareness, it’s off to the races of being controlled by a mind that’s been conditioned to satisfy a sense reliance self.

This takes on many forms: talking about others, eating habits, pouting or sulking, social status, being miserly (cheap), trying to control situations and people, judging, lust, greed, envy, self righteousness, false pride, and the list goes on, but what all these have in common is they are all sense reliance solutions of the Conditioned Mind to fix an internal problem of lack. Until something is done to allow the mind to settle, this will probably go on to the day that you’re near death. If this happens, you will see how most of your life was never truly experienced in the way that it could have been. This may not seem as devastating as say using alcohol or drugs, but it’s because either way life is experienced from a sense reliance perspective and is never truly lived…

Inner Tension

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

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

I know now it was my own mind that created inner tension which arose from within myself. Because of the shift that occurred some years ago there‘s now awareness so tension isn’t created the way it was in the past. 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 inner tension 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 creates your life. Living in a place of tension 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 tension that made peace elusive…