Here’s a simple answer to a fundamental question: how to be taken by the truth within? John’s response reveals that there’s nothing to be done but essence-of-baby to be: a return to openness, innocence and purity of heart.
Year: 2019
How is it that we can experience being ‘home’ within, and then suddenly lose it? John takes this young man through what’s happening in his nervous system and how, through the experience of a hot or a cold shower, he can realize and remember the code to the quiet okayness of home.
What makes the search for the truth, within, genuine? Is the purpose of this life to awaken? John and the questioner explore the difference between knowing the truth and living it, and how quickly we would do this if we knew we would die tomorrow.
“Why does the energy of awakening get stuck in my head?” This woman is also aware of making a lot of effort in her spiritual search, which seems to make things worse. An illuminating teaching on fundamental relaxation, the head’s connection with the heavens, and how that changes the brain.
JdR Audio 369
“Your sexuality, moved by your being, frees your self of all of the layering of shame in your sexuality that have form in your self, cleaning it. It doesn’t just open up the fields of being freely moving in you sexuality, it opens up levels and levels and levels of a deep deep sacredness of your sexuality.”
Questioning his own honesty in his relationship with his wife, the man in this dialogue asks how he can love her ‘rightly’, wondering if pain is a necessary part of the equation.
Q: I’m so grateful to have met you in Rishikesh. I felt some healing had happened when I stopped my practice of self-enquiry, but now I feel as if my self has come back stronger than before! John: It’s not stronger; you just didn’t…
JdR Audio 370
“A fundamental shift is when you ground directly into what you know, instead of into your experience and into your self. That changes your destiny.”
Q: My question is about the role of a spiritual teacher in spiritual development. I’ve been studying with a teacher for a few years and benefiting from the practice and study of Tibetan Buddhism. Then there was a breakup of the sangha because of…
JdR Audio 368
“When I look way, way into you, while we meet, I don’t see anything else but ‘her’. I’m meeting with you, then ‘her’, now, in your space. That’s what awakens you.”
JdR Audio 367
“What makes it possible is not your self, but you. It’s your presence, lived, that changes your body into all of its deeper bodies, that your self is drawn into and turned into.”
What is time in the context of eternity? What is destiny and can it be changed? In this dialogue, John explains that there are levels to both time and destiny, and that there is really only one way to comprehend their meaning.
