Being Still of Doing

John de Ruiter

Last night's meeting was enjoyable in multiple ways and I loved hearing everything John spoke.  Here's some snippets, starting with John's response, part way through the meeting, to the question, "Can you tell me what love is?":

"Openness of heart without an object.

Softness of heart without a reason.

Put love in pain and it thrives.

Put love in a corrupted past and it thrives.

Love won't reference what it is put in.

Love is free of everything,

enabling it to be in everything."

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"You are not a 'who.'

At your very core

(you are) Meaning,

and when that moves, Love.

When Meaning moves, it's Love."

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"When Meaning moves

the scale of doing doesn't move.

Doing to be

has no real existence."

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"When you are still of doing;

when you're not doing to be,

you are

Love.

Love is unaccomplished.

It isn't able to relate to accomplishing.

What you are isn't able to relate to accomplishment.

It isn't able to accomplish freedom.

It can't even relate to freedom.

It's the essence of it

without the point of it."

Best of all, as usual, was John's lovely transmission throughout, which I loved bathing in and imbibing, as well as just looking at his beautiful stillness and ITness ...  And I do have to mention something pretty humorous which occurred near the start of the meeting last night.  The questioner was having a hard time understanding "what's going on here" and at one point, in describing what he sometimes sees happening to a person in the Chair, he was wondering whether John maybe had a little button under his foot (in the floor) which he sometimes pressed, so that the person in the Chair then "got electrified" (there were quite a few giggles from the audience as he spoke such things).  To my great delight, as soon as he said that, John raised his right foot a few inches and purposefully pressed it back to the floor, in perfect imitation of depressing a little button!  What a beautiful mix of deep beingness, deep restedness, unconditional Love and sprinkling of twinkly humour ...

And I can almost promise (I'm pretty sure) that next week I'll have a new podcast to upload! 

Meanwhile, the Blog door is wide open once more to receive your contributions.  Simply type any question you may have for John, in the form of a comment below, thank you.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti