John de Ruiter Podcast

Netanya, Israel Retreat - February 21, 2015 Afternoon.  The questioner in this dialogue has been experiencing heartache and loneliness. John speaks about the reasons for and purpose of heartache, revealing the opportunity for awakening that is in it. The heartache is there to bring you to what your whole life is for; you ache in your heart until it opens.  Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you i...

Hamburg, Germany Event - May 24, 2000 This young woman speaks the uncertainty of many in today's spiritual marketplace. She wants to give her heart away to truth, but experience has revealed that many teachers are untrustworthy. John reveals the differences between a teacher of truth and one completely mastered by truth; to listen to all but to give her heart only to what she genuinely knows. Dial...

Cologne, Germany Event - January 24, 2015 Evening This man has taken steps beyond his addictions and difficulties but fears ultimately succumbing to their power: it's all just too painful. John encourages him in the one way that really works – to become gentled in his heart and to live his daily life in the realization of the nurture he will find there. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into...

Moen, Denmark Retreat - June 2, 2018 Afternoon.    In this interview with Rishi Itzhak, therapist and meditation teacher from Israel, John is asked questions about the essence of his teaching and what happens in his presence that is so much more than teaching. This rich dialogue opens and explores what is real; how to access the full potential of our selves through openness and softness of heart;...

Tiruvannamalai, India Retreat - February 2, 2017 Afternoon.    The Questioner feels guilty and trapped in her inability to deal with the pain of others. She knows that separating from them or confronting them does not help. John shows her how a simple return to openness and softness of heart allows the cycle of their pain and hers to end... in her.    Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into y...

February 9, 2018, Rishikesh, India   When we work hard on our projects and goals, it can be difficult not to be dependent on the outcome. Striving for success or fear of failure... how to overcome this source of stress? In this talk, John offers keys to connecting our outer life on the surface, with deep inner beingness.   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depth...

Hamburg, Germany Retreat - June 9, 2017 Afternoon.    Let not your heart nor your self be a port for negativity. This questioner has experienced the deeper ground she really belongs to, but can be overtaken by negativity. John shows her how to care for what she knows in her heart, even under pressure.   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, whe...

Hamburg, Germany Retreat - May 18, 2013 Afternoon.    How can a person with strong mental conditioning connect to their heart? Through the example of loving someone, John shows the questioner how to be in his heart and, despite shyness and embarrassment, let it come into his face, filling his body and changing his thinking.    Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the d...

October 30, 2011 Munich, Germany Retreat   This conversation addresses destiny. Does it just happen or can we do something to change it? John explains how it can only be changed with a shift of awareness: away from our emotional makeup into what we know the truth of in our heart, bringing stability, freedom and healing that before seemed impossible.   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into y...

Munich, Germany Retreat - October 30, 2011 Evening.    [Add Podcast summary from masterlist here]   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness.    More information about John de Ruiter - Knowing Reality at www.johnderuiter.com

Poleg Beach, Netanya, Israel Event - May 24, 2018 Afternoon In this gentle, profound dialogue, a woman who was sexually abused by her father asks how she can be with the ongoing sense of uncleanness she feels in her body. John reveals to her deeper levels unaffected by the trauma, opening the possibility of true healing and a return to a heart-to-heart connection with her father. Dialogues with Jo...

Tiruvannamalai, India Retreat - February 2, 2015 Morning.    The wish to return to oneness is unravelled for us in this talk. John uses analogies to reveal how wishing and longing separate us from what we long for, and explains how only being the same as the direct knowledge fuelling our wish can return us to oneness.    Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths...

Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands Event - April 25, 2012 Evening This questioner feels frustrated in her wish to be of help to the world, to address the environmental problems and human suffering. John explains to her that frustration only makes matters worse – that the planet will thrive when we live and relate to it instead from our innermost being. Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your...

Cologne, Germany Event - January 30, 2012 Afternoon   Becoming a parent is a joyous experience, but for many it can be quite overwhelming. Anxiety can quickly replace joy as we struggle with our own uncertainty and reactivity. How do we set boundaries and say no in ways that do not trigger a power struggle with our child? In this talk, John gives practical advice about how to give your child what...

Rishikesh, India Event - February 9, 2018 Afternoon   Deeply loving someone and being in love... you start a relationship and then you wonder why, after familiarity has set in, the in-loveness is gone and there is difficulty and pain. If you start from wanting and needing a relationship, you are already relating in a way that is not like your being. So how to have a meaningful, pain-free relations...

Munich, Germany Event - October 31, 2011 Afternoon    This questioner had an awakening which he hoped his Buddhist spiritual practice would open further. He feels stuck and wants to know how he can move forward. John explains that his awakening caused a shift in orientation that does not yet match the self that he has, the result being an ache felt deeply in his heart. John shows him the shift tha...

Findhorn, Scotland Event - March 11, 2012 Morning  

November 19, 2015, Bad Meinberg, Germany   We are here for just a short time, our bodies are temporary. So what happens after death? Is Karma real? How to have only good karma? Can meditation help? Listen to this talk to find out.   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in awareness.    More information about...

June 14, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  

February 22, 2015 Afternoon, Poleg Beach, Netanya, Israel   The questioner speaks of comparing herself to others and the pain, depression and inability to move forward that this causes. John explains the way to go beyond comparison, and into clarity and freedom.   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of your being, where the meaning of life opens up in aware...

April 05, 2014 Yehiam, Israel Retreat   What is the connection between opening the heart and love-making? When you open and soften in your heart, you discover the deeper levels. The woman pours her mystery and the man reads her and receives. Together, you get to know what you really are. Together, you are making what love is.   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the...

June 14, 2013 Totnes, United Kingdom   The questioner in this dialogue expresses concern regarding the world situation: poverty, war, disease and debt. He is asking: how can we help to heal this planet? John explains: first heal your self. First, change your self by being in your heart and deeper, and then the world can be healed. The health of this planet needs to come from the innermost outwards...

April 13, 2017 Edmonton, Canada Spring Seminar

September 21 Aft, 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

September 16, 2011 Evening, Cologne, Germany   I dread going to work: should I leave my job? This questioner is wondering how to deal with a difficult boss. John shows how, when there isn't a tightening within, an unpleasant experience can actually open deeper love, making it possible to flourish even in difficulty   Dialogues with John de Ruiter bring you into your heart, and into the depths of y...