The Beautiful Simplicity of Knowing

Did you check out some of the live streamed broadcasts from Cologne?  I managed to watch a few of them and they were great.  I particularly enjoyed listening to John during the Friday evening meeting as he answered a questioner concerning his fear of dying.  John spoke of how he had ideas of dying and pain (both physical and emotional) and how he now feared those ideas.  And that the reality of any experience doesn't prevent you from relaxing into you simply being You.  He said, "You don't actually fear anything." And more:

"Realize the simplicity,

the directness of You

and as soon as you do,

there's Love.

What you really are is not fear.

What you really are

is Love."

He went on to speak more about believing ideas as being like making a trap, stepping into it and that's then how it works:

"It's not real because it's not You.

The trap can be undone.

It is directly undone

by you simply being what you really are 

in the midst of the trap.

When you are You,

You are not trapped."

John told how such a trap exists only in the self and when you genuinely and deeply relax in your self, despite the trap; when that which made the trap unconditionally relaxes, the trap also relaxes.  He spoke of not needing the experience within the self that such a trap offers, giving a sense of self importance ... "That makes your self more than You.  That makes your self Master of You - even though your self isn't even like your own Being..."

"Your self is an incomplete 

servant of You."

John made it clear that realizing the immediate and direct truth of what we really are is all that is required for us to step out of any trap, any distortion within the self that is not like we truly are.  In the end, he spoke of the love of hearing and being and doing what is True, "because all of that is what is really You."  And then he said, "You can tell those closest to you that you're not afraid of dying any more, so they can all have their lives back."  Ah yes, those strange ideas we buy into that aren't real cause so much trouble, not only for ourselves but for those around us on whom we then off-load, pressure-relief style, all of our 'woes' - it's all so unnecessary.  Yet, wonderfully it all gets to change, once we begin to wake up and realize the Love that we really and truly are.

During the evening meeting the following day in Cologne, on Saturday, John also spoke of the simplicity of relating to what is quietly Known within:

"When you are simply being You,

everything stops,

you relax,

and everything that's taking place toward you,

doesn't threaten you.

When you are being You,

instead of what you think and feel in your self,

 you don't fear

- you can't relate to fear -

and you Love."

John now jets on over to India, about to give a wonderful seven day retreat over there, and you can once again tune in - it starts this Wednesday! - and watch those meetings live or as VoD's (click here!)  Meanwhile, I'm still working to get the most recent dialogue with him uploaded for your listening pleasure and divine transformation, hopefully for next week.  There was one line he spoke in that dialogue which reminds me of what this Post is mostly about, when he was answering a question on feeling lonely.  He said - and I love the simplicity of this: 

"Love isn't lonely."

 Dear ones, more questions for the next dialogue with John are always welcome - you know what to do!

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti