Frank Johnson expands and with razor-sharp precision expounds my topic, drawn from my inquiry into how to put Eastern wisdoms to use in the Western world:
GIVING UP ATTACHMENTS
In response to a popular query re. exactly how one could proceed with the task of putting off attachments, I cautioned that I am not a behaviorist, meaning I don’t concern myself with matters on the outside at all.
This issue is 100% a spiritual one, so setting up a plan to adjust your behavior will most assuredly miss the mark. As a matter of fact, it’s an all-or-nothing situation as with Abraham and Isaac.
If you arrive at the point where you need absolutely NOTHING AT ALL, then you’ll know the nature of true bliss. You’ll see for the first time what total freedom is truly about.
DrRobinStarbuck
Frank Johnson adds:
“True. The religious mind would have you think that change comes about by YOU taking control of your behavior. How many believe that in order to advance to some “higher level”, or to achieve some kind of spiritual breakthrough or intuitive tune-up, you need to really focus on doing better? We’ve all heard the expression… “What would Jesus do?” Does that really work?
Yes, you may achieve some limited or measured results, but ultimately and hopefully you’ll come to realize that all that “doing” is still just you. All that religious effort is still coming from you. What if you were to actually stop, and do something radically different. What if you really did what Jesus did… actually accept the divine reality of your Being? Right now, just as you are!
What if that God that we believe in is the LIFE that we already are and we were never told the truth. How many Believers ever take the time to realize or accept the truth within of who they are? What if you were to realize that the gospel message was not about “you doing something”, but that it was about the change that takes place when we accept and awaken to the truth of who we are.
What if the “I Am” that Jesus knew in himself is the “I Am” of you and me? What if YOU have been fighting the truth of your own Being all this time? Maybe the change we were looking for is found when we finally stop and just learn what it means to “Be”. To learn what it feels like to rest in the truth that it is God–our true Life, that works in, as, and through our physical being. This is how real change takes place. For now we realize that all this time we never knew the truth of who we are.”
Frank Johnson
Oh, that every man, woman and child would say ‘yes!’ to the nudge in their heart that is forever drawing them home to their Source, the reality of who they – and everyone else – are!
DrRobinStarbuck
Suddenly as if out of nowhere, the whole world appears to have become introspective, if not soul-searching. Such an awakening of conscience can’t be all bad. 🤔
~ Frank Johnson
ONE SECOND OR ONE LIFETIME, WE’RE ALL AFTER THE SAME THING
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The path we travel in life depends largely on the instruction we have been given. Strangely, after the Buddha had died, there was an eventual split among his followers. One side advocated for a spontaneous enlightenment, while the other group said it was a process. Can you image a split in such an amazing community, when in truth, both sides were right.
In my own case, it took a good portion of lifetime of searching for some presumed key… only to realize that all that time, I was searching for “me”. (The Eye that sees is the “I” that “I am”.) Yet, another person could have just as easily awakened in a second, rather than having taken a lifetime. For many, however, it does take time to discover that the religious doctrine we’re so committed to, bears no resemblance to the reality or internal truth that we are so desperately seeking.
Frank Johnson
Frank Johnson expands and with razor-sharp precision expounds my topic, drawn from my inquiry into how to put Eastern wisdoms to use in the Western world:
GIVING UP ATTACHMENTS
In response to a popular query re. exactly how one could proceed with the task of putting off attachments, I cautioned that I am not a behaviorist, meaning I don’t concern myself with matters on the outside at all.
This issue is 100% a spiritual one, so setting up a plan to adjust your behavior will most assuredly miss the mark. As a matter of fact, it’s an all-or-nothing situation as with Abraham and Isaac.
If you arrive at the point where you need absolutely NOTHING AT ALL, then you’ll know the nature of true bliss. You’ll see for the first time what total freedom is truly about.
DrRobinStarbuck
Frank Johnson adds:
“True. The religious mind would have you think that change comes about by YOU taking control of your behavior. How many believe that in order to advance to some “higher level”, or to achieve some kind of spiritual breakthrough or intuitive tune-up, you need to really focus on doing better? We’ve all heard the expression… “What would Jesus do?” Does that really work?
Yes, you may achieve some limited or measured results, but ultimately and hopefully you’ll come to realize that all that “doing” is still just you. All that religious effort is still coming from you. What if you were to actually stop, and do something radically different. What if you really did what Jesus did… actually accept the divine reality of your Being? Right now, just as you are!
What if that God that we believe in is the LIFE that we already are and we were never told the truth. How many Believers ever take the time to realize or accept the truth within of who they are? What if you were to realize that the gospel message was not about “you doing something”, but that it was about the change that takes place when we accept and awaken to the truth of who we are.
What if the “I Am” that Jesus knew in himself is the “I Am” of you and me? What if YOU have been fighting the truth of your own Being all this time? Maybe the change we were looking for is found when we finally stop and just learn what it means to “Be”. To learn what it feels like to rest in the truth that it is God–our true Life, that works in, as, and through our physical being. This is how real change takes place. For now we realize that all this time we never knew the truth of who we are.”
Frank Johnson
Oh, that every man, woman and child would say ‘yes!’ to the nudge in their heart that is forever drawing them home to their Source, the reality of who they – and everyone else – are!
DrRobinStarbuck
TO WHAT EXTENT SHOULD WE FOCUS ON THE PROBLEM (PAIN) THAT WE WANT TO HEAL ?
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FJ:
“The problem (so many [have,] believers included) is trying to figure things out with the mind, trying to see what the mind cannot see (aka Religion).
We don’t want to let go, we want to add to our false sense of self.
This pattern, found in religious doctrine, only leaves you confused and empty.”
Frank Johnson
There is only one Source of Life. You may call it God or you may call it Infinite Consciousness, it does not matter. The point being, there is no Life apart from the One Life. Jesus did not have more of God in him than Buddha, Krishna or any other human being; Jesus was/is simply a model of who we all are. This is not something you merely believe, it’s the reality of which we become aware when we awaken within just as Jesus became aware some time during the early years of his life.”
Frank Johnson
I found this gem on one of my posts, made a meme out of it and the latter went viral.
DrRobinStarbuck
“… The truth itself is not what is so upsetting, so much as what is being fabricated and being accepted by many as truth. This is a time when the Good has to be very, very strong.” Frank Johnson
A few have had the actual realization that they are not confined to a body. In that realization they can instantaneously be anywhere in the world: as a matter of fact, they are already there, only not consciously aware of it. We, as infinite individual consciousness, can be anywhere and everywhere in this world; but we have not as yet gained the conscious awareness of that fact.
Joel S Goldsmith
The Master Speaks
Reality Of Spirit, ch2, p34
Some years ago there was a group of foreign travels visiting a monastery in a mountains region of Italy. They were sharing stories with a well known Franciscan Monk. One person told the Padre how people can now cross the Atlantic ocean in a matter of just a few hours in a modern Boeing 747. The Monk smiled, and was heard to say as he stepped away, “I have experienced that many times, only instantly”. (His name was [Saint] Pio of Pietrelcina.) ~ Frank Johnson