Our Responses are conditioned

What is the importance that you give to know about yourself? If you buy a new TV in your home you have to go through the manual and slowly you have to learn one by one operation. If you don't learn there is no use for that TV, it merely exists in your home as a decorative item. The same is happening with us, we merely exist without any beauty in life.

One has to start learning from his/her day to day life, from little things, things like the way you talk, walk, relate to others...etc. In that learning we can discover that our responses are very much conditioned by books, religions, society, parents, ugly guru's who are coining money, our own knowledge....etc. In that very learning or silent observation the conditioning of the mind wipes out, but if you fight against your conditioning that effort or struggle brings another form of conditioning. So we always move one conditioning to another conditioning, we are never able to dissolve them, so that we can live with a free mind, which is not dependent on outside authority to resolve the problems of life.

It is very difficult for us to be aware of our own thinking, just to be aware, because in that awareness life flowers. It is difficult for us because the moment we start doing something we want some result out of it, we want to achieve something out of it. We never know how to observe or look at something without any motive or goal, we trained in such a way our life is full of motives, goals, success stories. We never know that when there no motive, goal there is attention in your observation, as only the mind without motive can stay in the present.

The motive is to become something; there is always striving, struggle in life which is preventing us to live the present moment. We are not living we are dragging our life, day after day year after year. It is so sad that we don't utilize our extraordinary intelligent mind, we depend on others and soon we will become slaves to some guru, book, ideal and this slavery continues till the end of our life. If you have any problem you instantly turn towards your dependency, and you are never realizing that this dependency brings lots of pain and suffering.

All our responses are conditioned that is what has been said above, is that true? Can you observe your day to day life and find out answer for yourself? That single moment in life in which you say, yes this is a fact and this is actually happening in my life has a great effect than reading thousands of books.

A day with complete happiness in your heart and intelligence in your mind is better than a struggled life of hundred years.