Tuesday 27 October 2015

The Simplicity within Complexity

Awake and exploring in the deep in the middle of last night, a few things became ever more clear.  It is at night that, consciously or unconsciously, we return to the Deep; a natural consequence of relaxing and surrendering what we no longer need; that of the person, self, heart - and even our life.  When I am consciously aware in the night of what I am in this expanded and truly in-need-of-nothing state, it is clear that during the daytime there is quite a different embodiment going on.  It's all too easy to get out of bed each moring and the first thing to get put on, so to speak, is the body of the person/self and it's ways of moving in a world similarly predominently dark and distorted.  Such wrongly conditioned embodiment is somewhat hard and the face is subesequently also hard, like a mask of protection against this sea of wrong doing and wrong being both within and without.  It's understandable because it all feels so real - but the truth is that it's just an imaginary prison.
Last night I could see the truth all over again of John's teaching to align as awareness with the 'tiny little bit' that you know the truth of in your heart.  For in daily life, that's the link; the direct link to that all deeper and all true You that you so effortlessly drop into each and every night when you go to sleep (or maybe when you lie awake and conscously explore what you truly are).  To be more IN than the tiny little bit in daily life is increasingly doable for sure, but to simply open and soften and to align as awareness with that tiny little bit - especially when life strongly triggers distorted inherited embodied patterns - that has to be enough, and actually it is.  For it does lead us out of that old embodiment and steadfastly into the new embodiment, the one I wrote of in last week's post.  To be satisfied with that tiny agreement within in the daytime - to the tiny little bit that you know without the need for understanding - that's the simple part.  The complexity is all that old embodiment coming up in ways both micro and not so micro and the on-going transformation of all those old pathways into the correct and true alignment via that tiny little bit ...  Being in that direct simple tiny 'yes' to what you know without needing understanding is the answer and it needs to be your walk if Truth is what has you in this life.  Then all the complexity of the code of deeper Being comes naturally into place, instead of all that old distortion, and it comes behind that simple tiny yes within your own heart ...

During Sunday's meeting I lit up a bit when I heard John say:

"You are the fountain in your life."
 
The deeper true You is indeed a veritable fountain of brightness, of a pure, clean and clear Good that has no opposite, that relates to nothing but itself.  Where the truth of what we are shines brightly, inextinguishable and self evident in its beauty.  In this world full of possibility brilliantly disguised as challenge and limitation, we need only that simple tiny little yes to even a micro dot of that fountain within - that's the way to deep Home, and all beyond this world ...
 
Until next time,
Love,
Shanti

Tuesday 20 October 2015

The embodiment of response

It was an interesting meeting on Sunday afternoon, with John bringing in a new aspect to his teaching when he spoke of being able to bring the deepest that we have awakened to right up into the level of the person.  Here are some valuable snippets from that talk:

"As you make personal everything
that you've already come into,
you're turning your person
into your awakening;
into everything you're responding to -
you making your person multi-levelled."
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"The mobility isn't just within -
the within is brought up through the levels,
through your heart, through your self
and unrolled into your person."
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"Your person becoming what you
responded to of what you knew.
By virtue of your person,
you are one.
It's oneness made personal."
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"Your person, given,
is the embodiment of response."
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"Embodiment is continuity
having outermost form."
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"What you know
turns into your lived in perspective
by you making what you know personal."
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"Your way of relating in this world
is by the truth in you embodied."
 
Yes it was an awesome talk and to me it opens up a heretofore never seen before opportunity to evolve at light speed.  Whilst I've been aware of the growing availability of This and the ability to access that More - now I see that there is also an instant doable-ness - of making that higher knowledge manifest in my person.  A kind of instant all different-ness, very cool and (by the way), costing everything we previously kept separate from such higher knowledge by believing it was too deep and far away - not any more!
 
Until next time,
enjoy making rolling it all out easy,
Love,
Shanti

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Whilst you have an inside ...

Life is full of opportunities - disguised as challenges and limitation, both big and small.  To successfully overcome these challenges is all an inside job, only doable whilst you have   an inside - after you've died, these opportunities won't be there any more ...

"You don't belong to what
you've learned and collected.
You belong to what you know the truth of.
Direct Knowledge that isn't adorned
with anything in your self or in your life.
You're able, as awareness, pure,
to turn into what you are after you've died.
You're able to enter that while you live -
and from that, you live.
Don't let it be after you've died,
for you to realize what you were in this life for.
In the midst of the myriad opportunities,
the way is one.
Making all of the little opportunities,
that come together in so many ways,
not distractive.
Existence won't inform you
of your actual  opportunity
of being in it.
It informs you of
all of the opportunities
that are not really  it."
 
The above quote is from Friday, day two of the Autumn Seminar, during a meeting in which John was speaking of responding and entering as soon as you Know, to the pure you that has no prior experience.  Yes, beneath the programming, what we are as pure awareness is always fresh and not burdened by the past, able then to freely experience being here in the Matrix without being controlled by it.  Which, in part, is what this seminar has been all about to me; that of a profound letting go of the past - and opening to what is new ... 
 
Before I sign off, I want to mention that the new website is on its way with plans to launch it sometime next month!  I'm also anticipating another dialogue with John very soon - so if you have any questions you would like to contribute, please type it as a comment below - thanks.
 
Until next time,
Love,
Shanti


Tuesday 6 October 2015

To be yourself ...

“To be yourself in a world
that is constantly trying
to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.” 
 
The above quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson and it's as true today as it was over a hundred years ago.  Of course, he's talking about being your true self or, as John might say, your first self.  Here's a snippet from a meeting yesterday, when John was speaking once again of being a child of your own heart as being a level of your self that cannot comprehend polarity ...
 
"You see a first self in expression
when you see a baby laugh and smile
- an expression that's pure
and not held together by anything.
Welcome every little touch of that."
 
For sure, being one's true self in this world is no easy task, requiring an on-going process of honest discernment within and a letting go of what's old and no good hanging onto - which reminds me of another great quote from Ralph:
 
 “Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could. 
 Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day. 
 You shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
 
Speaking of letting go of what's old feels timely given that we are in the middle of Autumn here; a time when nature shows us just how easy it is to let go.  And the Autumn Seminar begins on Thursday, so let's release what's old and see what's new ...

 
Until next time,
Love,
Shanti