{"id":1255,"date":"2018-12-27T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2018-12-27T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:28:10","slug":"enlightenment-is-open-to-anyone-who-is-open-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/27\/enlightenment-is-open-to-anyone-who-is-open-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlightenment is Open to Anyone Who is Open to It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is so much crap out there about how difficult\nenlightenment is to experience.  Some will\nsay that you have to go many, many lifetimes of suffering before you will reach\nit.  Those who use the language of Heaven\nor Oneness with God pretty much say the same thing that you have to suffer for\nmany years throughout your life in order to go to heaven.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Minds Open Doors
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            The truth\nis too simple for these complex minds to accept, so they ASSUME that it must be\ndifficult for anyone to experience.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Jesus pointed\nthis out many times, such as when he said, \u201cGreat is the God that reveals the\ntruth to babes but hides it from the wise and learned ones.\u201d (Mat 11:25)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            All one has\nto do is to practice loving whatever thought that comes through their mind, no\nmatter what it is, easy enough to say but in practice hard to do for so many\nreason.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Society and\nlife teaches us to be afraid of things in the world so our habit is to think of\nthose things and react with fear (contraction). \nHonesty tells us that our thoughts of things in the world are not the\nsame thing as the thing itself.  If we\nare honest with ourselves then we will admit that the thoughts cannot hurt us,\nit is only our reactions to the thoughts that cause of harm or negativity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            There are\nlots of reasons why the world does not want you to find the Kingdom of Heaven\nor Nirvana or Enlightenment or Perfection or whatever you want to call it. It is\nto the ruling class\u2019s advantage to keep you suffering so it is easier to\ncontrol and manipulate you.  But for the\nperson who is awake enough to see that it is not to their advantage to continue\nsuffering then ignoring the words of those who have not found enlightenment or\nheaven is the best strategy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who can find Enlightenment now? Anyone open to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enlightenment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}