John responds to a spiritual dilemma: a desperate longing for realization, coupled with the fear of nothingness that seems to come with it.
Topic: Spirituality
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.
“Who am I?” In this dialogue, John is responding to a person who really wants his spiritual search to be over but doesn’t know how that can happen.
“Meditation is a help, it isn’t you.” This conversation uncovers how a helpful technique can become a self-made trap, and John shares the key to moving beyond it.
Two questions: one about the vanishing aim of enlightenment, the other about the effects of being on a computer all day. John’s answer applies equally to both, and it all has to do with enjoying being, within.
In this detailed and at times humorous dialogue, John reveals the magical bonds of being that occur when one spectrum of consciousness encounters another.
How is a community formed if it’s not moved by intention? A question about love opens a conversation about the oneness at the heart of real community.
Q: What does the role of prayer and meditation have in the process of transformation? John: It gets in the way. When we pray, we always pray from a place of old ways of thinking. We always pray from a springboard of oldness. Our…
Meditation, spiritual traditions, mantras … do they really work? As John explains, there is a living mantra, but you won’t hear it in words.
Q: When I retired from work, I felt the need to travel all over the world, thinking that this was to support my spiritual journey. I’ve kept on travelling and now I feel I’m a bit lost. Can you help me find out if…
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December 6, 2021
“All there is in life is the quiet nurture, and then quieter and quieter. There’s nothing more. All the more is a result of this. The more isn’t it: it’s the tenderness within, not any kind of mind.” Dialogue One The way to…
