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“UNCONSCIOUS PATTERNING”

When you are immersed in thought, you might feel negativity, such as anger, loneliness, irritation, frustration, unfairness, or unhappiness. Or, you might feel positivity, such as the joy of being acknowledged, affection for others, or happiness at being blessed.

Or, when you are immersed in fantasy, you might recall a scene and feel loved, fulfilled, or convinced that you are on the right path.

However, you completely forget that this is merely thought, fantasy.

And all of this happens unconsciously.

This is why we find it difficult to notice the delusional emotions born from the stories spun by the thoughts that appear in the mind, and we also fail to realize that these are not “raw reality.”

Moreover, even though we know intellectually how much awareness and insight “being in the present moment” brings, however, actually being in the present moment is the most difficult, and the various situations we end up in are, of course, not intentional, nor are they caused by any kind of immaturity.

These are simply reflexive reactions stemming from identification with the personal “I”—the mind (ego)—and are merely reflexes of patterned thought processes, that is, neural networks built unconsciously.

Moreover, these patterned thought processes are unconsciously constructed in order to protect the illusion of the “self” we think we are, in the first place.

In fact, no one is immune to this unconsciously constructed neural network.

However, this becomes an unconscious cognitive bias, causing people to believe they are seeing reality while actually listening to various emotional, sentimental, or heroic narratives unfolding in the mind as if they were facts, constantly self-hypnotizing themselves.

This, on the other hand, manifests as the phenomenon of “knowing something intellectually, but being unable to actually do it.”

Therefore, people become trapped in an endless loop of thoughts like, “I can’t do this,” or “There’s something missing in ‘me’,” unconsciously reinforcing these cognitive biases and deepening their identification with the mind (ego, thoughts).

In reality, this is a perfectly natural progression, and it’s not a sign of personal foolishness or ignorance.

However, this patterned thought process, this neural network built unconsciously, is extremely difficult for anyone to notice precisely because it’s unconscious.

Unless one as the awareness can recognize this fact with the clarity of innermost stillness—a level of awareness completely free from thought (judgment, comparison, etc.)—or employs other methods—for example, working with a completely trustworthy professional to unravel it, or writing down and visualizing all thoughts—one will never break through this hard shell of the unconscious and reach the insight or natural liberation that comes with it.

This is why people get stuck in life.

In this way, people struggle without seeing through what their shackles are.

For example, even if many of us intellectually and conceptually know the truth, but they still cannot inwardly go into the depths of the being and see through facts of what is,—ultimately, this is due to the same reason.

Also, for example, even someone with the skills and knowledge of a top-class athlete might never become a top-class as defeated by a struggle against something invisible—this phenomenon is also due to the same reason.

That’s why people desperately try to compensate for what they lack, becoming trapped in a vicious cycle of increasing knowledge and experience, constantly striving to increase their possessions…

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First, calm down.

Tell yourself to “wait,” and simply stop.

No matter how trapped you are in a patterned thought process, no matter how much it seems to represent “you,” those patterns cannot be you at all.

And above all, it’s about being patient with yourself and seeing through exactly how confused you are.

To do this, try to distance yourself from distractions, as small beginning as with whatever you can.

Without fighting against the mind (ego) that fears stillness, simply recognize it.

And while witnessing that fear, yet step into inner stillness.

If necessary, you can enlist the help of nature or professional help.

Importantly, no matter how the mind keeps narratives, recognize them one by one, instead of being immersed in them (narratives such as “poor “I” can recover,” “liberation from a past of oppression,” or “overcoming hardship and achieving greatness”).

On the other hand, if we as the awareness can see everything as it truly is, with the clarity of the innermost stillness, we will spontenaously no longer need to rely on correctness, secondhand knowledge, or religious teachings.

Because pure awareness allows us to directly understand that “the present moment” is all there is, and what seeing is just seeing, transcends right and wrong, the flow of time (past and future), and everything else, is the very raw reality itself.

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Incidentally, there is something called metacognition, which is the recognition of ordinary perception. From a spiritual perspective, this “metacognition” resides still within the realm of the personal “self,” and can be used to control the words and (re)actions of the personal “self,” but falling far short of the clarity of the innermost stillness.

Furthermore, there is a third level called metametacognition, which is the recognition of “metacognition,” but even this is nothing more than the personal realm.

On the other hand, the clarity of the innermost stillness is pure awareness—a completeness that transcends the realm of the personal “self,” that impersonalness of it is nothing needs to be added and nothing to be taken away, completely free from all judgment and comparison, allowing one to observe everything as it is.

Therefore, in contemplation through the pure awareness, there is neither “I know,” nor “I should do something,” nor conversely, “I don’t know,” nor “I shouldn’t do something.”

There is simply the pure seeing, and remaining in this awareness is never “I am awareness,” but simply being purely “IT.”

In this way, awareness is impersonal, not an “individual,” as a separate “I,” and remaining in this pure awareness means neither being hurt or harmed by someone’s words or (re)actions, nor hurting or harming anyone.

(Nevertheless, there is always the perception of the personal “I” remains a narrative created someone identifies with it, and can perceive something in positive or negative ways, but these are based on the illusion of separation, and such thoughts (projections, interpretations) are seen as someone else’s fault or something else entirely. However, it means only that projections and interpretations are being considered facts, or that attachment and captivity are being manifested, but the separation cannot be a fact, nor is the narrative reality.) (OM 🙏)