The questioner describes having been awakened to a deep energy of pure love within, and yet suffering still continues. John explains that the suffering is in the self, while the love is not. The love is your home. Your self suffers because it is not complete. You are complete. You don’t need to suffer. That puts your self in your care. Then, every difficulty that you have in your self will have you coming more deeply from the love that you’ve awakened to, within.
What is the purpose of sleep? Is it to replenish our body or is there a deeper meaning to the cycle of sleep? Why do we dream? John explains the difference between going to sleep in patterns and tightness, and going to sleep matching our being. In matching our being, there is a different kind of freshness when we wake up, having been washed, during sleep, through all of the depths of our being. Going to sleep can be one of the most awesome times of the day.
A young man describes having experienced deep, penetrating insights and wonderful awakenings. But when the experience passes he is back to his small hearted small minded self. How can he sustain these experiences?
In this Q&A dialogue, John speaks about how to stay in the heart when others attack or offend you.
The dialogue covers several topics including:
• Reactivity and polarization. The reactivity betrays a false, illusory investment.
• Being honest to your self blinds you.
• Being beautifully vulnerable: No filters, no boundaries, no shields, no protection of any kind – you will feel everything. Everything that touches your self from anyone, from anything, is free to go right into you, right through you.
• Instead of reacting – open. When someone loves you – open. When someone is nasty to you – open. Then you are being what you really are.
A detailed and sometimes humorous teaching on how to remain open however someone treats you.
In this Q&A dialogue the questioner ask about Enlightenment. John then defines enlightenment and speaks about the following:
• Purity of heart is of the greatest value, it can’t be compared.
• Purity of heart is more than the Sum of All Awakenings.
• Falling and getting back up.
• Nothing prevents you from being what you really are. You can be it in the darkest night. In any kind of fire.
• What purifies the heart is being what you know.
Positive experience, negative experience, no experience. John shares why experience doesn’t matter, and the value of being quietly at peace, within.
In this talk John speaks on topics relating to the health benefits of our own being, including: Being what you really are at any cost – being like the being, is better for the body than really good food. You thrive on you, not on food.
John answers questions about how to be within “The Matrix” at work, and in your life. John says being in the matrix is wonderful. The surface isn’t something to get away from, it’s real – when you are being real in it. “Love thrives in any environment.”
“Reality is changing. As we are being what we really are, we change as reality changes. What we really are changes.”
“My sole purpose is to be, in life, what we are after we’ve died. Through openness and softness of heart and core-splitting honesty at any personal cost, I live as that while actualizing the same in others I meet. I am available as a resource for anyone who recognizes and values this way of being.”
– John de Ruiter
