When do you avoid what is?

When you engage in compulsive thinking, you not only avoid what is, you allow the mind to persuade you to believe that you exist somewhere other than where you are.  To resist who you are only creates more suffering.  Eventually, reasons for why you resist fall apart, but unless you awaken to understand why, delusions are replaced by more delusions.  It is never too late to more consciously Transform your life.

Notice opportunities for freedom

In between emotions and, even before any emotion arises, you can notice a gap of emptiness.  This is a period where one is aware of the true nature of mind and everything, where ignorance does not exist, where one feels the reality of timeless stillness and peace. Then, something happens. The spell is broken by the conditioning of everyday distractions.  What can be done to awaken more fully?

The mind would have you believe you have to do something to get somewhere or to awaken.  Watch what happens as you stop thinking and doing.  As you step back, you begin to realize you spend enormous amounts of energy thinking and doing and rarely step out of the prison of the mind. 

Every moment, new levels of self-awareness are open.  You walk through or disregard the opportunity.  Depending on how you choose to experience life, you notice patterns and gain some measure of control over the mind, or not.  Recall what truly serves you and do that.

"If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also light your own path." -Zen saying

Share a core delusion

Many people are recognizing profound experiences and starting to uncover core delusions.  Share what you would describe as something that renders you speechless. How does it help you now?