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    

Not separating from Knowing

 

John is now in Australia about to give a Seminar in Byron Bay, which we get to see on the web (see last week's post for the link).  Before he left, however, he gave us some wonderful words of wisdom on Sunday during the evening meeting.  Here are some snippets:

 "The greatest value is you

being in response."

*

"Response puts you

into what you know.

    It bypasses any process."      

*

"Any separation from knowing

and you fall." 

*

"When you are oriented to the truth 

you will respond to direct knowledge.

Knowing that has 

no recognizable form around it."

*

"You move into it

and you move as it.

You won't be able to look behind you

to see how you've done.

To look behind you is to

separate from Knowing.

You be and do 

because you know.

Because you know

you don't need to check 

and you need no proof."

*

Oneness in form

without separating

because of the 

perceived attractiveness of pleasure

without separating 

because of any aversion to pain.

Without separating 

because of any perceived gain or loss." 

It's so easy to separate from knowing the truth within and just as easy to return to it ..

It will be a couple of weeks until I can upload my most recent dialogue with John, but as always, it's worth the wait! 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti  

Going for Gold

John de Ruiter

It's great to have John home again in Edmonton and I enjoyed the meetings over the weekend.  I notice that when he's here, it's a stabilizing force for being and doing what I most deeply know the truth of.  And I love to see how steadfast John is both when he is so deep in the meetings and also even when he's more animated in the cafe; there is that constant loyalty to the truth and I love to see that.
Some golden snippets for you now, from Sunday's afternoon meeting when John was speaking of the goodness of moving the deeper levels in the body and of doing so regardless of one's physical condition:

 

 "The condition of your body and your health 

isn't to be a limitation to you

moving your deeper bodies.

In that, as awareness, you evolve."

*

"The greater difficulty offers deeper gold.

You digging into that redirects your nervous system

to deeper bodies than what the body of your self is.

As your nervous system is brought into deeper bodies

your nervous system changes.

The change in your nervous system

directly changes your self."

 *

"You have a body

because you are their deeper levels,

whether you've awakened to them or not.

After you have died

these deeper levels are not only 

levels of what you are

but they're levels of how you move

and you're able to come into them

in your body before you die.

It's what you're in this life for.

You don't need good health for that,

you need to be alive for that." 

*

"If you're connecting to them

 without any kind of result being a condition,

awareness evolves physically."

*

"The results are not what is first important to you,

you being the deeper levels in you

is what is of greatest importance to you,

then moving these levels into your body

through sickness and through health,

for better or for worse,

you are all in.

*

"When you are evolving as awareness while you live,

because you are being what you know the truth of,

despite any experience

and in the midst of every experience,

the difference that makes in your

evolution as awareness

in what you will be after you have died

is massive."   

Mmm, how good his words are, real food.

And people in Australia are no doubt gearing up for such sumptuousness from John when he visits Byron Bay at the end of this month - and for the first time the meetings will be available on the web.  For more information on that, please click here.

Many thanks to all those who have sent in questions for John for the upcoming dialogue.  As always, please type your question for him in the 'comments' below.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti