594 – Fully Present in Your Body, Fully Present in Your Heart
Closing down to the experience of vulnerability can mean dissociating from the body. John shares a simple way to become more present however uncomfortable we feel.
Q: We decided to live together, which we’ve been doing for the last six months or so. And there’s many times that I’ve asked myself whether it was kind or skillful because of a lot of pain and suffering that arose in the relationship. I know, if I could do it over again, I would not have included sexuality or living together in our relationship until we had a totally solid, long-term commitment to each other. My question is can we go back to being together as friends and not being involved intimately until that commitment was solid and strong?
John: Yes. But what is more important is what each of you are living for. It is that that determines the relationship. What good is your relationship, your commitment to each other, if that isn’t clearly and solidly based on the commitment within each of you, and the purpose of the relationship to something higher? And not as an ideal, but as a clear and solid response to something that you know the truth of. If it is for an ideal then it is for something that is already less than you. If it is for what you know is true, and you’re understanding it, then it is for something that is greater than you. If a relationship isn’t for something within each of you that is greater than each of you, then each of you will be using the relationship to eventually pull your selves down.
The level in which you exist within a relationship is the same level that you’ll be confirming within your selves. To evaluate a relationship you would have to evaluate your selves, with the purpose of being open to change anything that isn’t in alignment with what you really know is true. It would require the most tender and the sharpest use of intellect, without which you won’t be seeing what you’re unaccustomed to seeing, all for the sake of benefitting, within each of you, a higher awareness. You would be judicial love, the kind of love that doesn’t favour what is personal, but rather it includes what is personal in favouring what it knows.
If this exists within each of you then the two of you are able to profoundly be together, two beings dwelling together, both supporting, and existing for one beingness. There may still be real difficulty, but without either one of you being difficult. It would be intelligent goodness interacting with each other, where the slightest playing of a game would be a shock, instead of the truth being a shock. Kindness would become skillful in establishing the goodness that it knows. Within such a relationship the two of you wouldn’t be existing for anything else, that this would be the foundation for the relationship, and that within everything that each of you builds, it would be of the same beingness.
Q: Would you tell me, John, how I am a problem in my life, in our life, that I can be more aware of my goodness?
John: By using your backbone for goodness instead of using your backbone for coping.
Q: Thank you, John.
594 – Fully Present in Your Body, Fully Present in Your Heart
Closing down to the experience of vulnerability can mean dissociating from the body. John shares a simple way to become more present however uncomfortable we feel.
593 – Honest to the Way of Your Heart
An exploration of how honesty and an open, soft heart are connected, taking us ever deeper into the unseen roots we could remain in forever.
591 – The Truth About Compassion
When is compassion self-centred, when is it real, and how can we tell? An exploration of what it means to be truly compassionate.
590 – Can I Return to My Awakening Experience?
One profound experience of a different level of consciousness had a profound impact on this person. How did it happen and can it be experienced again?
589 – Starting Over: Living Your Awakening Before You Die
After many years on a spiritual path, this person is no longer interested in more teachings. Can there really be nothing to do? John describes what stands in the way of living our awakening, and the value of doing that before we die.
588 – The Realization of a Rare Destiny
The longing to be free of any level of the self is at the heart of this conversation. What changes our destiny and gives entrance to what we really are?
“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
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