Search no more

Consider how it feels to stop searching. Notice what is happening as you stop striving to discover or prove yourself.  The mind may convince you this is self-defeating, that you are running away, but from what?

Slowly, something inside reminds you things unfold and come at you from all sides. There is nowhere to go.  Another option exists- to stop observing extremes.  The watcher evaluates experience.  As you feel the watcher disappear, urges to do or be things falls away.  Life transforms itself. Awareness simply is. 

Connect with living experience

Some people seek knowledge as a means to an end. Yet, teaching reveals itself to those open and aware. When you make peace with existence, a given situation presents and you allow it to be. So, it is not what you read or hear that matters, but how living experience unfolds within. The inner guide is the real you.

See through the conflict

Sometimes, no matter who you are or what you do, you encounter critical people or have the urge to criticize others. What is all this testing? Awaken to why you focus on conflict.  Its not about any external provocateur. It is about how you permit the mind to control you. As you listen and connect with intrinsic value in others, you expand perspective, recognize you want  the same thing: to be loved and appreciated.

When was the last time you chose to see beautiful, lovable things in a labelled 'enemy?' You have the capacity to create a bridge.  Find something to respect and care about in people who appear to annoy you. As you do, you let go of the past. Its possible to forgive what triggers discomfort beneath the surface. Surprise yourself.  Go deeper into the meaning in how or why you judge.  Conflict is a gift and teacher.

Recognize yourself in another

Compassion is a force that enables you to recognize and appreciate aspects of yourself in others. Consider what motivates you to admire, model or choose to live vicariously through certain individuals. What does such identification teach you? Beyond form, in the level of being, you sense equality and move from conditional to unconditional love. A shift in perspective is one way to consciously Transform Your Life

Think until you outgrow it

Nobody has every encountered anything but a thought or projection of a thought.  One does not escape from now, but one may deny it or be distracted.  To be lost in thought is to forget the essence of being.

Perception combines feelings and sensations with judgment.  The inner judge introduces thought and tells you existence is based on structures and forms that you work out.  Curiously, everything is fine already. Time is irrelevant. As you ask, how do I still the mind? Mind tricks you to believe it is not already still.

In terms of form and linear time, you may not be able to add much more to your cv or identity. The mind-created sense of specialness or recognition may or may not be realized.  What is the point then, of obsessions with form, the search for things, engagement in endeavours? What is already transforming?

To feel the luminous, formless being is beyond thought, beyond a conceptual dream of personal history. Move beyond constant neediness and drama.  Awareness is stillness that exists beyond images and comparisons. It is not something you experience if you follow a course of action. Stop thinking to just be.