Its all about the clues

Our sense of fullness is not one that is released by knowledge or understanding.

Our sense of fullness is released by our active experiencing of “everything is just right” in the present moment.

The clues on the path are just like the pieces needed in a video game. If we pick them up as we find them, they can be useful to our being successful in our quest.

The moment we try to attach our sense of fullness to the exterior things, people or situations around us, it will disappear. This reveals that reaching out and attaching is not the correct method. It reveals to us that our sense of fullness is not released to us by the outside world…

When some exterior thing gives us pleasure, we confuse that good momentary feeling with a sense of fullness, and then we begin to look for it where we found it last time… perhaps trying to repeat that feeling with something outside.

Is this what “do not worship false gods” means?

In its natural state, our awareness is like a flowing river. It sticks to nothing and continues on in its Now movement.
But our clinging mind attaches to a thing, and then sticks to it (fixates on it) when we don’t like the way it is and want it to be different. This expectation causes dis-satisfaction and suffering.

When we expect something in life…. like our relationships…. to GIVE us something, we will begin to suck the life out of it to get what we need. (Yeah, we are like that) When we realize that what we need is given freely inside us simply by being alive, then from our inner fullness, we can put life into our relationship, and feed it instead of depleting it.

When we realize that the direction of flow is “me sticking to problems” and not “problems sticking to me”, then we can begin to live free of our expectations. In fact the problem is “me” not the “problems”.

The concept of “Being free of attachments” is confusing. This is because we do not know how to free ourselves from attachments. We have a thousand reasons why we are so attached to things…… The secret is that when we realize that it is “me attaching to things”, and not “things attaching to me”, it is something that we can deal with. As long as the problem is outside ourselves, we do not have the power to control it, and it will forever return to disturb us.