Single View Limit

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

Being fixated on a single view keeps you trapped 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 single view, how limiting this is will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the minds single view grip lessens can assist in possibly altering this 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 single view limits life, and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from the single view…

Thought Patterns

Part of the process of a settling mind is noticing the thought patterns that cause you and others harm and changing them in ways that’s beneficial to you and to all beings…

For years I had thought patterns and acted in ways that weren’t beneficial to me or anyone else. I was perplexed by this for many years because I didn’t understand why this was so. I didn’t get why anyone would do anything that wasn’t a true benefit to their life, but it goes on all the time; just watch the news. Forget it don’t watch the news because there isn’t much benefit to that. We act in ways that harm others and ourselves, to me this is truly mind boggling, but it’s where my passion to assist others in exposing non-beneficial thought patterns is derived from. I don’t blame me or anyone else for the way I developed; it‘s just the way I became conditioned. 

If there is fault anywhere it’s with society as a whole. That’s the collective conditioning as opposed to individual conditioning, but there really isn’t fault anywhere because becoming conditioned is just the way life is. The type of conditioning is what needs to be focused on. If we were all conditioned to love the world would be much different. Since this isn’t the case we need to learn to develop thought patterns that make us act and think in ways the are beneficial to our well being and our planet as a whole…

Habitual Distractions

You will be habitually distracted by what your mind approves of. Until you wake up to see this, the habitual distractions of what’s approved will remain in place and it will be the driving force of your existence…

Everything reached for is a coping mechanism approved by the habitual distractions of your own mind. Although approving different things will produce different outcomes, the core of all of the minds habitual distractions are the same; they arise from the conditioned mind. This is what causes one to constantly seek habitual distractions which aren’t real. The Conditioned Mind makes you believe they are as the ensuing behavior to fill these habitual distractions follows. The Conditioned Mind says, Hey, you need to reach for something, what is reached for depends on the conditioning in place; sit and ponder this.

Until this is understood and the diabolical Conditioned Mind is seen for what it truly is, suffering will remain because you will always need to fulfill the habitual mind distractions. There’s nothing inherently wrong with satisfaction, but when it’s the driving force of existence, it will keep the mind in a constant state of needing to fulfill habitual distractions; this won’t be seen by a mind that’s locked in this state. Only within a quiet mind state will there be awareness of this. The reason why anything is reached for is because there’s a habitual distraction by the mind for the present moment to be different; this is a habitual distraction of the Conditioned Mind. You can only be distracted by what the Conditioned Mind approves of. Unless you wake up to see this, your conditioning will remain in place and the habitual distractions will be the driving force of your existence…

Selfish Conditioning

As we grow up we’re conditioned in a selfish way that allows for our habits to be as they are. Simply put, if our selfish habits were based in love humanity would be much different…

As I look back, I see how many of my habits arose from selfish conditioning, this was just part of what was there growing up. Nothing particularly right or wrong in this, especially because there wasn’t much that could have been done differently. It’s very difficult to act in a loving manner if that’s not what’s in place growing up. Some things are learned naturally, but everything takes some conditioning associated with it. If you’re learning how to golf, at first it’s awkward with no knowledge as to the best way to swing a club, but the more you do it the more awareness of how to swing there is. This way of learning is beneficial when what you’re learning is based in love. Part of the problem is when what becomes habit isn’t based in love because unfortunately it seems natural. This is why it’s so hard to change. I knew what was right (loving) and what was wrong (selfish) growing up, but doing what was loving was not what I was conditioned to do so being selfish became natural for me; there wasn’t anybody to tell me different.

To say the least, these selfish habits caused much suffering because there wasn’t any room for much else to be seen. This is the merry-go-round most people are unknowingly on and it’s a direct result of why humanity is the way that it is. If we all grew up with our habits based in loved, humanity would be much different, it’s that simple. I know this because fifteen years ago I began seeing things differently (of love) and lo and behold things began changing. It doesn’t mean it’s always this way, but just as it is with learning to swing a golf club properly, it takes practice. And for me it’s done so the loving behavior becomes as natural as the selfish habits were…

Addictive Wanting

Don’t let addictive wanting keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive wanting (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s addictively wanted…

If you’re always addictively wanting it’s because you don’t think what you have is enough. If you don’t think you have enough, there will always be something to addictively want. Wanting isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one wants addictively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is addictively wanted only matters to the degree in how the thing affects your life. The addiction to drink alcohol in access has consequences much different than the addiction to go to a program to stop using it. Make no mistake though, the addictions core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of addictive wanting lull you into unconsciousness because all wanting leads to bondage in one form or another, and as stated this includes all addictions.

You might say that’s not true, an addiction to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly in the present is the only place the peace of not needing to addictively have things different is experienced. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, where’s the benefit. I say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you will find it’s not providing the benefits you thought it would; shortly afterwards more gold will be addictively wanted. Investigate this and see how addictions arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the addictive wanting of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…

Be the Difference

You can be a difference maker, but only if you know what will make a difference. Understand the energy of love and you’ll know what’s needed to make a difference… 

It’s the people factor that has been lost in what is occurring today in society, and it’s causing everyone to suffer; the sad thing is it’s all preventable and unnecessary. The difficult part in all of this is not how to fix it, but how to remain an instrument of Love throughout this insanity. Everyone has their own journey and it isn’t my job to fix anyone, but not to be drawn in to all the negative energy associated with this is where my obligation lies.  People are upset and have every right to be, but the unfortunate thing is all the negative energy doesn’t change anything. Regardless how anyone is labeled, it’s not who they are. A label doesn’t give anyone the right to disrespect another person. 

All the labels associated with a thing are used to create a perception; a false way of looking at life. When labels aren’t applied there is stillness; it’s in stillness that Love is present. Then and only then will reality be known; the reality that things aren’t as they appear unless you make it so. If you don’t get drawn into the labels, you won’t get drawn into someone else’s perception of reality. You can be a difference maker by knowing what will make a difference. The energy of Love is the difference maker…

Fortitude Within

Looking at yourself takes an amount of fortitude that most people will never possess because the conditioning in place won’t allow it. Until this changes the conditioning remains in control…

It’s very sad to see the things people are ok holding onto, with the emphasis totally on satisfying a deranged self. This is done without much consideration for anyone else and it’s strictly from a self-serving perspective. I know it’s because most people know not what they do, but the suffering this causes and how it reinforces the conditioning in place is truly mind boggling. I said this because if you’re truly awake there’s the understanding that the way things are is the way things are; wanting them different also reinforces the conditioning in place. I’m writing about this because there are answers that many don’t have the fortitude to embrace. It’s like there’s a cure for cancer, but some just won’t listen. Without going into specifics, the conditioned unconsciousness runs so deep that people will justify all kinds of selfish behavior without blinking an eye; drugs, alcohol, gambling, porn, rioting, protesting, total defiance for any authority, murder, rape, assault, robbery and looking inward, this is only the tip of the Conditioned Mind iceberg. 

Here’s why this is, at least from my experience. It’s much easier because of the conditioning in place to justify selfish behavior than to have the fortitude to look at yourself. Looking at yourself takes an amount of fortitude that most people will never possess because the conditioning in place won’t allow it. Until this happens your conditioning remains in control. There’s really no way around this. You don’t have to save the world, but you have to have the fortitude to look inward so you can at least save yourself…