How we look at Earth
Is how we look at women
Is our planet disposable or precious?
Is our mother earth here to be exploited or to be shown unconditional love?
Is earth just to produce for us or is she divine?
We must look at mother earth through the lens of unconditional love to see this.
The same goes for women.
Do we take for granted our Earth as we do our women?
Or do we pay gratitude and love to both?
With love,
Johnny
Some have given up on humanity and focus on our destructive nature
Some believe only will power and technology will save us from self
destruction
Some want to leave earth behind and escape into the sky
My truth is that humanity is worth
saving
Humanity is worth unconditional love
But we must return to little children once again to save ourselves from destruction
Children who haven’t closed their hearts to love
Only true unconditional love can save us
No amount of willpower or technology will save us from the greed, hatred and fear inside us
Only forgiveness, love, and radical nonviolence can liberate humanity
Don’t lose hope
Don’t close your hearts and become cynical
Keep your heart open to love as children do
Your brother,
Johnny
Beneath the hatred
Beneath the doubt
Beneath the fear
Beneath the greed
Beneath the addictions
Beneath the suffering
There is a gem
More precious than diamonds
Beneath the chaos is a deep source of unconditional love
A love so deep and healing
A love that can liberate us from fear
This is the mission of my life
To dive deeper into this source of unconditional love and let it transform me
We are all born with the capacity to awaken and become enlightened
With this source of love we can help the world heal from hatred, fear and violence
We can walk more and more like Jesus did on this earth
We are all Buddhas(awaken one) to be
Don’t doubt or limit yourself
With love,
Johnny
Gratitude is the antidote for all bitterness, resentment and hatred.
Next time you feel deep resentments towards a friend, family member or boss try to remember how grateful you are for them. Write it down and meditate on gratitude.
Liberation from all resentments is a joyful experience. When we hold onto resentment, bitterness and hatred we become ill. The only way to feel healthy again is to forgive others and express gratitude.
If someone is truly toxic to us we can still bow out and thank them for teaching us a lesson of what not to do. Gratitude does not mean excepting harmful behavior from others. We can walk away with gratitude and love for them.
Gratitude is a beautiful practice plus it’s free and available at any moment.
Your brother,
Johnny
May we all see each other through the eyes of compassion
May we love others
Especially those lost in hatred, greed and fear
They don’t understand the destructive nature of their ways
They need the healing power of love
So instead of fighting them or trying to prove that I’m right
Let me show them love through grace and compassion
With love,
Johnny
You are a miracle
Many stars had to die for you to exist
Millions of your ancestors had to meet for you to smile
Many minerals, plants and animals had to die for you to be alive
The miracle of life is all around and within us at every moment
To touch the miracle of life is to touch the divinity of everything at once
A single cell becomes a human being
A single mustard seed sprouts into a massive tree
Housing many birds and other life forms
The practice of mindfulness is to get in touch with the miracle of life
Too often fear, hatred and greed keep us from this nourishing energy of love
If we can feel this spiritually
There is no fear or anguish
Only pure love and joy
With Aloha,
Johnny
The baby sees life through the lens of love
They see everything as a miracle
Curious about everything and everyone
They touch the divine each day without resistance
They touch the deepest reality
Greed, hatred and fear haven’t harmed them yet
Their mind practices non discrimination
They have their Buddha nature intact
So for us to enter the Kingdom of God
For us to experience Nirvana
We must return to our original mind
The original mind is the infinitely compassionate mind
This original mind can touch reality deeply
Forgive instantly & love unconditionally
It can experience true joy out of the ordinary
But for us to preserve the original compassionate mind, we need a higher Self to guide the inner child and protect it from the greed, hatred and fear in the world
So we need someone like Jesus to preserve our Buddha nature
Our original mind is the mind of Jesus
The mind of a Buddha
My life’s purpose is to “Live Buddha, live Christ”.
With Aloha,
Johnny
The Buddha and Jesus lived a message of love, compassion and forgiveness. Their message was a way out of unnecessary suffering caused by the egos destructive nature. The ego is run by fear, hatred, and greed. I imagine the ego has a group of hurt, lonely, angry, sensitive, and greedy children inside our inner family. Those with strong addictions have hurt children running the show but most of society is being ran by parentified children frozen in trauma. Some become narcissistic, some cold emotionless, and some develop addictions but they are all responses to trauma. Jesus and the Buddha taught a way out of the ego and into the inner Self that heals all these wounded children. It forgives them, loves them, and holds them tenderly like a mother to a crying infant. We first must surrender to the battle in our mind. This is the first major step in our transformation. We admit we are powerless and need help from others. The ego wants to do life on its own, never wanting help from others out of fear and arrogance. We think we are Gods until we surrender fully to our suffering. We need a higher power to help guide us now because we realize the ego always takes us to complete destruction and suffering. Our will never leads to happiness, we need something bigger than ourselves to believe in. You don’t have to call it God, you can call it mother nature, the Universe, etc. It doesn’t matter what we call the mysterious force that created me and keeps the universe together but we have to be grateful for it. This is key to our transformation and resurrection into a more kind peaceful joyful person. Keep surrendering each day and the God of your understanding will fill you up with pure joy, you won’t need drugs, casual sex or consumption to fill the hole inside you anymore. This world needs more of us to wake up to our unnecessary suffering and delusional thinking that we are an all knowing God. Pleasure seeking isn’t the way towards true happiness. Practicing self love, compassion and forgiveness is the way. Shine that light into the darkness of your soul. The darkness of hatred, greed and fear.
With aloha,
Johnny
Jesus once said a rich person’s chances of getting into the Kingdom of God is like a camel going through the eye of a needle.
This quote makes many in the Western world cringe because our whole society is based on greed.
Greed takes us away from Jesus’s message of compassion, love, humility, and grace.
From a young age we are taught from society that the accumulation of wealth is the source of all joy.
That we should strive to be a millionaire and buy luxurious goods, expensive vacations, and fancy candle lit meals at five star restaurants.
Nothing could be further from Jesus’s message of the narrow road and what the Buddha taught as the middle path.
Both wise men were speaking of the destructive nature of greed and fear.
Greed takes us away from the smooth sailing towards the pure joy of living a simple, humble, and grateful life centered on giving to others.
Jesus and the Buddha were both born into nobility but chose the narrow/middle path between extreme wealth and extreme deprivation that also was around in their times.
So look around you? Do you see much happiness in those who seek only pleasure? Pleasure seeking in my life only leads to self destruction and unnecessary suffering.
Jesus and the Buddha both taught a way out of suffering. A way towards resurrection and rebirth on this planet. By surrendering to our suffering like Jesus on the cross we can be reborn right now. By living like them through the narrow/middle path we can relieve our suffering and be very joyful and peaceful people.
Letting go of the need to strive is a huge challenge for most of us in the west. It took me many years to find serenity just being myself, not striving to be someone else. The only striving worthwhile is striving to live like Jesus or the Buddha. Strive to be the best version of yourself and you will naturally be very joyful and want to help others who still suffer deeply.
With aloha,
Johnny
My life is impermanent
Knowing this, I vow to live deeply each day
Love unconditionally
Have deep compassion for all, even those who harm others
Forgive anyone who has harmed me
Including myself
Let this be my legacy
My legacy will not have dollar signs or job titles
My legacy is not purely words
But my actions
With Aloha,
Johnny
The Narrow Path 