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Wildfire of the Mind Burning Out of Control

Have you seen a wildfire burning in a field or forest. A single spark ignites a fire that engulfs everything in its path. Furthermore, the spreading flames seem impossible to stop. And, this destructive pattern is what happens to thoughts and emotions within an unaware person. Therefore, conscious presence and living in unattachment are essential in smothering these out-of-control thoughts and feelings.

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Mental and emotional wildfires usually consume your presence primarily due to unawareness and conditional behavior. Let’s use an everyday occurring example to illustrate. You experience a moment of serenity and nothing, not even your own mind, distracts or burdens you. Suddenly, a spark as a thought ignites in your mind. This thought kindles another thought and another. How is this possible? You are no longer at peace with yourself. Now, agitation and confusion consume your presence of being. Thoughts burn out-of-control within you.

You ask yourself how this can happen. And, you assume that work, a traffic jam or a crying baby cause your frustration and lack of conscious presence. But you should not base any experience on what you think in that moment. Instead, how you experience your own presence decides how you will live. This involves how you observe the moment, how you respond and how you behave. Conscious presence and unattachment to the wildfire of thoughts shift your state of being away from the mind. Continue reading →

Spirituality, Religion, and Science! Oh My!

Lions, tigers and bears! Oh my! Do you remember this scene from The Wizard of Oz in 1939? Do you recall Dorothy, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow shaking with fear as they encountered the Cowardly Lion? The depiction of this confrontation with a lion offers us insight as a signpost on the path of conscious awakening. However, let’s substitute lions, tigers and bears with spirituality, religion and science.

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Conditional reactions fill our life and this often causes confusion, distractions and misinterpretations. Furthermore, the thoughts and words we use initiate, nurture and intensify such behavior. Hence, we look at everything through the mind’s tainted reflections. Thus, most people are oblivious to the conscious presence of their being. Therefore, please do not misconstrue the above title. This article and the words are merely portals to the essence of your being. What is Spirituality? This is our inquiry. The expression of spirituality, in itself, is just a word or action. But the pure essence of your being is simply the conscious acknowledgement of your presence in the flow of life. Continue reading →

Waste Not, Want Not, in the Presence of Being

Are you familiar with this proverb? The first documented use of this adage was in 1576 by Richard Edwardes. The passage is found on page 88 of his written work “The Paradise of Danty Devices”. This is the excerpt from the page as written in Early Modern English. “For want is next to waste, and shame doeth synne ensue.” There was a slight revisal of the saying that became popular around 1772. “Willful waste makes woeful want.” The wisdom of this axiom is obvious. And, the benefits of conservation are apparent relating to all aspects of our existence. Nevertheless, people are notorious for having behavior patterns that are completely the opposite of sensible and thrifty.

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Let’s inquire into energy efficiency pertaining to your presence in the vast nothingness of the universe. Your and our focus is to consciously acknowledge and conserve universal energy. The first law of thermodynamics is useful to illustrate the vibrations and flow of universal energy. Likewise, the Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but instead transfers from one form to another. In simpler terms, the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant. To paraphrase, the universal is a system that entails the transformation of energy unbiasedly transferring from object to object. Perhaps, this insight will answer the question that some people ask. What is universal oneness? Continue reading →

The Discovery of a Lifetime Is Waiting Within You

It is you that brightens the eternal flow of presence.
Life and living abound from within.
Energy flows to you, through you and beyond.
You are the beingness of life itself.
Journey the path within to self-discovery.
The steps you take enlighten as the one self-awakens.
Are you aware of the conscious light that radiates within you?
Don’t let the mind confuse or restrict you.
Oh yes, the mind is a puppet master.

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You chase after the brightness of life.
But true realization reveals that this light is within you.
And, with practice thoughts no longer fool you.
Do not search somewhere out there for answers.
Instead, look within and allow the journey to begin.
Openly and consciously observe the mind.
Your aware presence illuminates the mind’s darkness.
Conscious awareness of your being will guide you.
Travel the path of inner self-discovery.
You exemplify living through your being.
And, you influence the manifestation of life. Continue reading →

Data Flow Around the World and What About You?

There is an increase in information within recent years. This amount exceeds the total data already compiled since the being of socialization. We literally function from a basis of existentialism details that circulate and thrive on an input/output conversion. Here are a few statistics.

– Ninety percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. Our current output of data is roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes a day (www.iflscience.com)

– Worldwide there are 6.3 million Google searches each minute of every day.

– More than 4 million hours of content uploaded to YouTube every day. Users watch 5.97 billion hours of YouTube videos each day.

– There are 347.3 billion emails sent worldwide each day.

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This article that you are now reading already contributes to this information transfer. Okay, you might ask how this relates to aware presence and conscious living. Everything is a type of universal vibrational energy transference. You experience input and your interaction with this information determines your existence knowledgeability. Everything changes according to your unconscious or conscious interaction with the beingness of your life experiences. Continue reading →

Information Influences You and Likely Causes Confusion

Many people says that everything was different and simpler long ago. Thus, is it accurate to write that living life was straightforward 10,000 years ago? Eat or be eaten, live or die were factors of our existence long ago. And, this is still true today. But our modern mindset is much different. What causes the complexity that overshadows our life? Yes, we can refer to many obvious developments such as social, political, overpopulation and poverty aspects that initiate complexity. Were these existence factors different long ago and that is why people say that living life was simpler? Probably not, because these factors were also a part of our daily experiences long ago. Therefore, is it probable that how we react to internal and external information modifies as we continually develop?

Information, in itself is fine when a person is consciously aware. My reference to existence modification suggests that a shift from conscious presence to mind interference causes our difficulties in life.

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Test this theory on yourself. How do you feel when consciously observing any thought, emotion or situation in a state of non-attachment presence? Does this awareness offer you the freedom to openly observe how you live? Yes, is the obvious answer. On the other hand, what do you sense when you unconsciously attach your state of being to something you experience? This type of behavior usually causes you to have uncontrollable desires, misunderstands and fears. Thus, instead of openly observing thoughts, emotions and actions these behavioral tendencies confuse and manipulate how you live. Likewise, any information that you unconsciously experience, whether past, present or future causes you to misinterpret you sense of self-being. The use of the word information illustrates how mind behavior can influence you in any given moment of unawareness. Continue reading →

The Language of Life Speaks to You

Would you agree that language and communication are beneficial to your interactions in life? Well then, what about life and how you live? Do you feel the sensation of life speaking to you beyond the clutter of your daily existence? The universe is a manifestation of beingness older than life itself and as young as a flower seed that blossoms. The manifestation of your being is an inward and outward flow of energy. Furthermore, communication with the universe and life is ongoing. You interact with life and the presence of your being in each everlasting moment. However, you, I and the majority of people are usually unknowing and mostly unaware of our universal beingness.

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Life is a frequency. This energy flow and additional frequencies vibrate through objects. This energy manifests and pulsates within the fabric of being. Therefore, let’s consider this universal flow. How do you influence this energy? And, how does it influence you? Please, firstly visualize yourself as the conductor of this power flow. Thus, to know how you influence this energy manifestation is to distinguish how it will influence you. Sounds tricky, but easily understood when you divert your focus from mind and body to the aware presence of being.

There is a resonating whisper that everyone feels and recognizes in the background of all activities. Although each person acknowledges this communication at different and various levels. The essence of being and your unaware or aware presence influence this flowing interaction. Unfortunately, you probably don’t respond that often to this tingling and pure sensation of aware beingness presence. Instead, the mind distracts you with thoughts and details about existing in a world that seems insane. Continue reading →

Perception of the Mind and How You Live

How do you observe yourself and the world in which you live? Typically, most people live in conformity with mind perception behavior. Perception, conception and eventual formulation are three traits that comprise the structure of your interaction with life. The mind functions according to a type of evolutionary blueprint interwoven with personal and collective experiences. You perceive and then you conceive in conformation with thoughts and emotions. And, this communication with the mind initiates the need for formulation. Simply said. You want and need a plan. Okay, you might be familiar with what I have just written. Nevertheless, this is useful in aligning your focus on difficulties that can manifest if you live strictly from the mind.

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In example, your perception occurs as a mental function. This is unavoidable. Thus, perceiving is intuitive. And, this spontaneous behavior is usually conditional. Therefore, the act of perceptual conceiving is misleading during the mind’s attempts to create meaningful representations about how you live. But aware presence alters the flow and depth of your observation during any moment. Still, don’t expect to always live in a state of conscious awareness. It is a process and an inner development that you practice living at any moment during active awareness. Then, the pathway to an unconditional act of self-being naturally manifests before you without guidelines and formulations. Continue reading →

Wishing for Paradise Causes Confusion and Denial

The world has become a playground filled with mental and materialistic superficiality. And yes, there are many things that we enjoy as human beings. This encourages us to continue on and want more. Still, deep within we already know that more will never be enough. Thus, we complain. And, frustration overshadows our day to day activities. Furthermore, reaching for more invokes attachment and dependency. Everyone expects more to be waiting for them down the road or just around the next corner. Therefore we seek and wish for a life in paradise. People refer to this behavior as the Tahiti Syndrome.

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Yes, a paradise is within your reach. But, you won’t live in paradise if you use the mind trying to get you there. A deeper awareness of living opens the portal to conscious presence. And, the practice of an unconditional presence of being offers the pure peace you seek. Our experiences are manifestations flowing from frequencies within universal energy. Equally, it is plausible and acceptable to write that we tap into this stream of vibrating energy. And, our use of universal energy either unconsciously or consciously happens in any given moment. Continue reading →

Conceptual Mind Behavior Restricts Aware Presence

Time is such an absurd tool of the mind. And, yet, the majority of people still think and believe that this mind-made conceptual structure defines everything a person experiences. But, let’s travel to another planet somewhere in the universe. Strangely, the developing species of a distant planet would contradict our mathematics and timeline structures. Instead, this alien civilization labels our calculation of one year as one month. Furthermore, what we structure as one month is one day.

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And, likely, another planet on the other side of the universe would structure conceptual time in a completely different fashion. Thus, it seems likely that everything is a mind structure that depicts illusions that overshadow the presence of being. Therefore, in example, any given person conceives the concept of time as moving very fast. While, another person manifests a timeline that is slow. Neither are accurate or tangible. Nevertheless, the usage of our presence determines how we interact with life. Thus, conceptual mind behavior influences the manifestation of our beingness. Continue reading →