Concerning prayer 

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"People can only work from where they are." Thank you so much, I appreciate this particular message.

I loved the Russian spoken Jesus Prayer Brought tears to my eyes. Deeply in my heart. Not sure why. Thank you John

"I've never been more effective at doing/being good when I take myself out of the scene altogether and merge with the One." Absolutely beautiful and profound. True words of wisdom to be contemplated and lived. I hope I can really take this into my heart. Thank you both.

oh John. Your love of "thee" is astounding, thank you thank you.

hope John lives many years more, and make many more videos.

Prayer often saved my live. Thank you both for everything.

I could listen to you for hours John. The peace that exudes from your meditation/prayer/stillness is undeniable.

As someone who has been praying for years but recently discovered meditation, I agree that there's so much similarity between the two, and often the line between the two blurs. I think prayer and meditation are the greatest tools to get as close to God as possible in this life. We can cast aside all the cares and extraneous things of this life (the things that change, and will pass away in time) and simply rest in God, who simply is and never changes. The Psalms provide me great material to meditate on, and the Psalms echo countless times how God should be our ultimate refuge, fortress, strength, and peace.

I heard it put a good way by the rapper killah priest: “When you pray, you talk to god. When you meditate, god talks to you.”

Getting very old while staying healthy seems to bring enlightenment to many people..When i was young, I used to think 'those óld people' gazing for hours at nothing so terrible boring. *Seemed like hell to me then. Now i get older myself , The idea of losing one's sex drive ,need to fit in, No more deadlines reach, noting left to proof etc,etc. sounding rather blissful ..:))

“...so there is a natural purity in a mother’s prayer... She knows...”. ... and the church bell sings “Amen” (at 3.21, in 3.10 - 3.27).

God bless you sir john Thank you so much for everything

Thank you John, and Phil for this heartwarming interview. It was wonderful to meet with you in church on Tuesday, to meet your dear friends from Russia John, and to hear you speak so fondly and with so much passion about Russia. I am ashamed to say of how little I really know about Russian history, but what stands out from hearing you speak, is that even in the most extreme situations we can find peace in prayer, in the stillness of the present moment we open to the divine, everything can be taken away, but we cannot destroy the heart's longing for life, for love. Like countless others, I find it so hard at times, witnessing the suffering in the world, wondering what i can do to help, but knowing that when i rest in the stillness, silence, and infinite spaciousness of the present moment, all is well, and this brings so much comfort. I loved hearing about the way Russian people come together and connect in stillness, before a family member or loved one embarks on a journey - So beautiful. I feel we have so much to learn from the openness, loving kindness and compassion of a Russian heart. With love and blessings, Michele

Idk i see this man for first time and love him.

These video's are top of the range. Both of you are gorgeous souls

I am obliged to agree with this man a great deal.

Two brilliant men in fine conversation about things that matter. Thank you.

All of us fail at times....lose faith in God....then hopefully bow down and beg His forgiveness. The short answer to the question of "Does Prayer Work".......Yes it does.....

ÀSMR is proof God loves us

Darling John - sharing your experience and understanding with us is so very encouraging. X

The rosary is a meditative prayer of the life of Jesus through his mothers eyes.

Beautiful. Amazing. Thank you.

You’ll never meet a man who loves being still as much as big JB, he bloody loves it 👍🏼

what a remarkable , incredible man thanks for sharing

Very moving, very profound and the truth. Blessings x

I watched almost all John’s videos and he basically has same answer for all questions. If i look there i see light and there darkness. Then stillness. Let’s not forget keeping our feet on the ground. So if for any reason , Sun is at your back you will see the world in shadow, which is sin people.

A wise monk meditated his whole life and upon his death his disciple asked him the one thing he could share about his wisdom : he responded .. worry is preposterous. I see how that could be if understand the message behind what we are experiencing. I don’t fully but a small part of me is being led in that direction. The meaning in between the meaning . The realization that leads to a knowing smile. I want what he knows . I already am that I just want to know it by my heart .

A well known prayer in Russia is: "Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a poor sinner." To what we may rightly add: "Because as Christ, out of your infinitely great love for me, you are appearing in what seems to be my sinful flesh as a beggar for divine mercy." ❤️

he's so on it- though half a year ago i'd have called him obserd because frankly i was too deep in the ego to understand, similarly a strong ego listening to this will either be repelled or just not get it at all

Thank you for sharing these insights of your life with us, it helps for sure 🙏

What a great, deep conversation

Thanks

I have no idea what he’s talking about but I love his gentle voice lol

“[You] come to realize what prayer really is. That prayer is really merging into the perfection of God. Melting into that absolute one.” He goes on stating that this connectedness is unlimited with no boundaries, resulting in a personal ability to connect to the entire world, implying that as an individual we can have a far greater affect than we realize. “If I’m connected with that level of immortality here, it serves the whole world. You could describe prayer as the raising of consciousness.” As a self-confessed old man getting close to death he states that he is more optimistic than ever. Because he’d always struggled, starting a young man, with what he himself could do to help the world be a better place. He observes that as a younger person he saw changing the world as bringing about better irrigation p\or growing crops where it had not been possible. But… this was very limited to the efforts of his individual, physical body. Whereas this aged perspective removes those limitations. As he’s aged and practiced prayer he’s discovered that one person, via effective prayer, can change an entire world and its consciousness. I like Mr. Butler's zeroing in on the vital reality and essence of prayer. In that regard, a helpful question would be a how-to question: "John, how do you achieve this state? Talk to us about the experience of that state." www.littlecreekmonastery.com/blog/2022/11/10/an-essential-element-of-prayer

Brilliant. Thank you!

When he speaks about the Russian Orthodox Church, I can totally understand what he means because as an Armenian Orthodox, we have & currently experience the same ...well... experiences. After the fall of the USSR, the Orthodox Church which was underground exploded into the open. Thank Christ.

God is not everywhere, his knowledge captures everything but his majesty is high up.

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I'm a big proponent of prayer, but it concerns me that God often doesn't answer prayers of a dire nature. It's not for me to question God, but it seems He's very selective in which prayers He answers. For example, when children are kidnapped and abused, and they have to endure it. John might say don't let the evil in the world bother you, but it does bother me.

Please tell me that you and John used to go and have a cup of tea and a slice of cake - (Bakewell tart perhaps?) after your conversations?

Amazing!

My man got the pimp walk

this video is beautiful. i got so much out of it. oddly enough, the moment i began to feel uncomfortable, was when the jesus prayer was said. i have a very difficult time calling jesus "lord" and i have a difficult time with that word in general, due to my fundamentalist and misleading christian upbringing. i absolutely adore jesus, and believe his teachings and his presence and his example is vitally important. richard rohr's teachings on the trinity helped me understand the deeper importance of christ, what that word means, and how it's a part of the holy trinity, and how the trinity works, so to speak. but the phrase "have mercy on me, a sinner" feels uncomfortable to me. it's hard for me to ask god for mercy when i know god has mercy already, and i'm just swimming in it. prayer as a form of asking for things has been a slippery slope for me...a slope i try to stay away from anymore. and although i know i am absolutely a sinner, i feel like the way it is worded and stressed in this prayer/mantra is hard for me. i am identifying with a sinner, putting myself in a box, giving myself a label. a negative label. it sounds like self-loathing almost. i understand what sin is now that i have been taught about it from john, richard rohr, thomas keating, even thomas merton. but to make identifying with it part of my prayer, saying it repeatedly, almost seems mentally unhealthy. please do not take this as an argument or disagreement or an attack! i am merely contemplating, noticing the feelings and thoughts that arise within me. i could listen to contemplative christian teachings all day every day, and be pointed toward truth and stillness, and be taught concepts and methods i can integrate into my day to day life. but the minute we say "lord jesus christ have mercy on me, a sinner," you lose me. i wish i could understand more deeply why exactly i feel that way. perhaps it's because scripture has so much (uncomfortably) dualistic language. i am a western person born in the USA, so my mind is naturally dualistic in some ways, but naturally nondualistic in a deeper sense. i am trying to learn to appreciate dualistic christian language, and get out of it what it was meant to teach me, while leaving the rest. thank you phil and/or john for reading my comment. :)

How can I get in touch with John? Would love to meet him. Such a blessing

Please listen to T.L. Osborn.

Prayers work

And God said... Stop praying to the wind.

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First find the truth,and the truth will set you free,said Jesus the Christ.

"sinner" can be a loaded term. Often it implies guilt, shame and worthy of punishment (e.g., "sinners go to hell") and that we are what we think we are--less than whole. John's uses the term "sin" to mean simply "turning away" from the light of god/love/wholeness/presence, and getting lost in the darkness of our mistaken perception. In that sense, "sinner" is one who has or is acting out of ignorance of their own perfection as a "child of god"--not to be punished, but loved. Still, the term, for me, carries a heavy-handedness to it, considering how it was used by some church establishments in the past. I gravitate more towards affirmative prayers that affirm my wholeness and worthiness in the present, considering that I am already predisposed to feeling guilty, such as "May I be filled with loving-kindess. May I be happy. May I be peaceful and at east. May I be well." (the "I" can be replaced with "you", "we", "all beings"). Too each their own.

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I tryed to grab Jesus but he keeps getting away, slippery little blighter.

GO AND SIN NO MORE Us Thy Destined Soul's Of Thy Light Inside

I quite often think it's Phil we should be listening to rather than John.John lives in his own world,which is entirely up to him of course.Where as Phil more importantly lives in the real world.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus said come to Me all you weary and weak. It says in the Bible that Jesus came to save sinners. Are you tired of trying on your own to save yourself, then come to Jesus. There is no sin that He will not forgive. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. God's promise is you will be saved. He didn't stipulate on what sin you may have done. Just come as you are. Believe that Jesus paid for your sins when He died on the cross for you. God knew we were weak and couldn't make it on our own, so Jesus who is God Himself reconcile us to Him through His death, burial, and resurrection.

as with all these spiritual videos, no one ever questions what the speaker is saying. It can all be gibberish but not one question is put to start a debate

Iv figured it out! Big JB is trying to tell us, without actually saying it, that he is in fact God. ‘This is where it all starts from’, ‘if I say something it comes from Spirit’, ‘further away from Spirit the more problems we have’ etc. Laughs at the question of if God hears prayer, because he knows he does! Now turn back to the bloody light you silly gooses!

Utter codswallop. But I love listening to this guy.

The interviewer calls him jawn buttlah

Gibberish, but nice voice so....

I love how you talk, in the the spiritual way but I don't believe in God

A Mystic he is not.A day dreamer who has had too much time on his hands over the years...maybe.Too make a hole dig a hole.John strips everything right back to the bare bones.To nothing.His idea of Stillness and Prescense is nothing,which he also claims is spirit.Our thoughts are our mind.Our mind is our brain.Our brain is our body.We are our body.Once you're gone,you're gone.You become nothing.I personally wouldn't get too excited over that.Each to their own of course.

If everything is in perfect order because of god's will why are our minds not in order? He made us fallible? (He wants us to suffer and is therefore not a good god and isn't at all interested in prayers) God is fallible? (Therefore not omnipotent or omniscient and can't hear prayers) He doesn't exist? (Our fallible minds have imagined him/her/it and prayers are for nothing).

Even in all his wisdom, John Butler has gotten it wrong.

This guy's got s serious case of rosacea going on.