Softening in Difficulties

A friend has gone missing and we're all feeling it here.  Aside from doing what we know and what we can, thereafter it's good to remember to soften within, to relax as much as possible, even in the midst of such difficulties.  

I wish John was here among us but, as scheduled, he is away to Europe about to give a Seminar in The Netherlands.  For more information on that, please click here.

It is wonderful to be part of such a supportive and heartfelt community at this difficult time, it's quite something.  Before I sign off, a little tiny snippet from Monday night's meeting:

"There's no time to waste

closing or hardening

for any reason."

- John de Ruiter

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti 

Living in the Sunshine

Roll on the Summer

As this long cold winter slowly draws to a close, I find myself longing for summer this year and reminding myself that, whatever the weather,  to live in the inner sunshine; the deeper levels within ...  Life's been a bit gritty for me of late with stuff arising on the surface for my self to get into a bit of a spin about.  It's so good to see how it happens, how real it all seems, as thoughts turn into feelings and the spin begins.  But then I notice that the deeper levels in me care not for such spinning and largely self-created unhappiness.  It's quite a journey, this fine balancing act of taking care of what can be taken care of on the surface and then maintaining one's orientation always to what is deeper, true, and rather carefree.  In this busy world there's often so much to take care of on the surface but I do know to what my heart and soul belongs ...

And I received a few comments from people regarding the most recent podcast concerning how soon it seemed that I had continued speaking to John after a few of the questions - they felt that perhaps I'd not given him time to answer, and I thought it would be good to clarify it here for everyone.  It can happen that after I ask John a particular question, that there is a very long silence and these long pauses are taken out during the editing process.  Perhaps in the future, we will leave most of the pauses in, so that it's more clear for everyone, what is actually going on!

Apologies for this week's post being a day late - and thanks to those who are sending in new questions for John - and a gentle reminder to please endeavour to make them as concise as possible!

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti  

The New Podcast

Ok. I've done it, with a little help from my friends (thanks Tammy!) and you can listen to it by clicking right here.  
It's the first one you come to at the very top (dated March 2014).

I trust you will enjoy listening to it and if it ignites any questions in you, please deliver them in the usual way as a 'comment' below.

Until next time,
with Love,
Shanti  

 

Deeper Response

John de Ruiter

First things first, the podcast is almost ready to upload and I plan on doing a special mid-week post in the coming days so that I can upload it as soon as it's done!  

Meanwhile it's been great to have John back and his transmission during that first meeting on Friday was unmistakably new and strong.
It is a shorter post today, but I'll include some snippets from last night's meeting, where John spoke of moving the deeper levels:

"As a deeper level opens

you can respond

as  that level."

*

"The way of having movement 

comes exclusively from the level within

that you respond to.

You come to that by relating only to that level.

You won't be looking back, to familiarity,

to check how you're doing

or to make sure that all is safe."

 *

"A deeper level within is a form, 

a level, of pure you.

Your movement as that requires only  you.

If you include your self in that movement

you won't move as a deeper level

you'll move as  your self."

*

"Each level deeper

seems  to be less

but you know  is more."

I'm hoping to upload the new podcast in the next few days, so check back in then.  And many thanks to those who have recently sent in some new questions and more are always welcome, simply type it as a 'comment' below.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti   

Free & Independent

Beautiful Byron Bay

Like many others, I greatly enjoyed watching some of the broadcasts from Byron Bay.  Most notably the first one in which John was in top form, giving a mega teaching and really spelling it out.  Here are some snippets where he is speaking of not having any other beliefs; being a level within that is free and independent of all that:

"You are nothing but that.

You are that 

tiny little bit within

that you came to realize was everything.

It precedes all adornments,

it precedes all experience 

and has need of nothing."

*

"There is no core need because

what you first are is complete

and has need of nothing

and it responds."   

 *

"As what you first are moves,

in the context of form,

you have real reflection of what you are,

what you are being and

what you are doing.

The movement in form enables you

to comprehend what you are.

The further you move out into form

the more that you comprehend, in detail,

all of the meaning of what you really are."

*

"To leave what you first are

for an experience and a form

is for you, as awareness,

to be separate.

Having more density, 

more substance,

increasingly more and more forms,

while fundamentally, at the core,

being in lack,

because of not being that

tiny little bit

that is already everything

and has need of nothing."

Mmmm, already everything ...

Concerning the recent dialogue with John, it is in the works and with luck, might possibly be ready to upload for next  week's post.

To give you a taste of that new podcast to come, here's some excerpts where John's answering a question about why people have "different faces and different stories":

"People have different faces because there’s a different application of themselves within various social circumstances.  When there’s a need to cope and survive, what people invariably do is put on the aspect of themselves or the side of themselves that best serves coping and surviving."

 

"When one is in the heart and true to what you know in the heart, there isn’t going to be a siding with coping and surviving in the self.  The loyalty is to being in your heart and being what you know in your heart.  Then being in various social circumstances is going to bring up vulnerability because there will be the experience of lack within the self within various circumstances. So instead of putting on a face to cope and survive, the heart is seen.  And the lack within the self is also seen."

"If you’re not being more loyal to your heart than to your self, then you’ll be loyal to your stories because that’s all you have."

More of that soon!  And finally, the Blog door is once again wide open to receive your questions for John, simply type it as a 'comment' below, as always - and thanks!

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti