The deceptive mind 

I don't know what's higher, me or John's trousers Much love ❤️

Dear John: Ive been listening to your words every night on my IPad since being alone now is a difficult and strange transition. I cannot tell you in words how comforting and reassuring you are to me. Sometimes I imagine you are my family - a very wise and wonderful grandfather. Thank you for your incredible insight

My heart always expands when I listen to you speak and when you fall silent I am drawn into the silence with you! I have gotten more from your silence than from all the spiritual teachings I have ever listened to! Thank you for sharing your life and wisdom with us! ❤️

So peaceful and reassuring. I love hearing the flock of sheep in the background.

ok...after this stupid corona virus and im back to my stressful but great paying job my first pay check is going to this channel. period. John and Phil have ushered me through the worst of pain, through divorce, this virus, the cut back and pause of our company. stress and downsizing watching what its doing to families that are in my employ and the guilt I carry because of this virus and the impact.. John you put it so well and so simple when your face clears the top of that paper and you rise above it. im practicing over and over and watching your videos brings me a new strength and a feeling that in the end it will all be ok. thank you John for gracing us with your wisdom. im a loyal follower and always will be. thanks for getting me through the tough. much love and respect, Mark from Buffalo new york USA

(The mind trying to find stillness) "is a bit like the shadow trying to be the light". Perfect 👌

John, hearing your silence, and your word of stillness, and the sheep calling in this field of green, has been the experience of heaven on earth. Thank you for Being!

Dearest John, as long as your feet are on this earth, hearts will be awakened. This I feel.

"from the innermost recess of my heart i have removed the thorn of endless opinion with the pincers of the knowledge of truth"

Really like these, much respect

Brilliant 👏. Mr. John butler. Thank you teacher. GOD BLESS YOU 🙌

I'm so glad I found you thank you, you make me smile inside john and of course thank you too phil Much love from Ireland ❣

I must think of John's insights a dozen times a day.

Lovely 🌺 I did my graduate thesis on silence bcz it means so much to me. Fellow classmates laughed at it. Criticized. Called it an "interesting" topic.🙂

Your videos have helped me so much, thank you. I’ve stopped ruminating which has been a big problem for me and caused lots of depressed times. I realize how many problems our brain creates for us - it creates needs, and when we don’t live up to these needs, we feel a lack in life, and become depressed. I have really become more aware of this - the needs - we can totally live without them, they do not threaten us on life, if they are not met. Instead, we should focus on just being in the silence, do things just for the sake of doing them if they are valuable for us and others, and just stay in the present, without great needs of status or other ambitions, caused by an ever increasing dynamic and hyper marketing social media global world. We are who we are, and that is enough.

Thank you, John and interviewer, I’m doing cross stitch and glad to know it’s my way to pray and meditate. ❤

Another lovely video, I really enjoyed the topics discussed today. I am a scientifically-minded person, but I can really respect this perspective you have on the existence of a God. It is very enlightened, and we can all behind it on some level. I wish there was more people who thought like you ❤

"like passing clouds, they come and they go." Thank you.

Apart from some small points, this all could very well come from, say a Buddhist. The “rising and falling”, which John refers to is a typical Buddhist way of describing the fleeting nature of the world. It’s a beautiful thing to realise that these ideas or descriptions refer, ultimately, to the same, one truth, which is beyond description.

I could have written Daniel's letter, I experience the same. This video has been a blessing. Thanks! 🙏🏻

Excellent video, especially the part with the shadow wanting to become light.

Thank you with all my heart, John, for your beautiful, calming, clear understandings. You help me very much ❤️

Thank you so much John...I believe you're the answer to my prayer. Your videos greatly helped me understand life better. I hope to become as wise and learned as you.

Daniel nailed it in the head. It took a lot for me to make peace with my mind by practicing stillness. I, too, thought it was out to kill me off. It was rough but worth it.... I can’t express how profound my life has become just by ‘being’♥️♥️♥️♥️

Thanks again Johnny. Your voice is the answer to world peace.

When I was learning to meditate, I thought I had to KILL my mind. I finally came to the realization after A LOT meditation and present moment awareness that, through the process, I was MAKING PEACE with my mind. Both the right and left hemispheres come together. Your brain’s frequency changes and true MAGIC happens. Drama falls away. Dramatic people seem to just move out of your life. Honestly , when you meditate, you are creating quantum mental space for greater possibilities to come. I am still surprised , even today, at how miraculous this regular practice is. It has completely changed my life for the better. ❤️from Phoenix, Az🍀

I loved the way you laughed heartily at "scientific evidence." Best response to the empirical priesthood I've ever heard. These videos are a Godsend - thank you for your willingness to be the messenger.

This is amazing. Blessed be.

Thanks, to John and Phil!

Very good explanations and obsevations. The mind wants to congratulate itself for its spiritual attainments. Just remain in stillness in the presense of God. There is nothing to attain and no one to attain it.

Thank you Mr Butler for all your talks/advice. I’m going for a nice long Sunday walk now to reflect on this and enjoy a little silence.

I see aura of bright light over his head 12:00 min...truly blessed 🙏

I always feel lifted up in spirit when I listen to John.

Thank you John from the bottom of my heart.

You are wonderful at keeping me on track. Thank you!

His voice charms me

Love your words. They have helped me through a lot of inner turmoil. Thank you

Thank you for your presence.

So amazing. You help me come back to whats important. Thank you so much for doing this

Thank you so much 🙏🏽 I needed this because I was kicking my own a** with fear of progress

Lovely to hear from you again.

I love this videos thank you keep the good work up 😊

Just re-watched this. Such fresh, profound spiritual teaching. I write as a preacher myself. I always find inspiration in John's words that come from such depth.

Thank you.

🙏💎🙏 Hi , Thanks to you both !! Phil is an excellent camera man how he captures the light 🙏 Extrodanary .🙏💟🙏

John is so still that I catch myself looking up at the screen as I'm falling asleep and wondering if its paused or not lmao

The question about mind taking control and feels like attacking in middle of spiritual progress,was exactly my question. Thank you for that ..

i was happy to see the notification 😊

Great delivery...John, your a real treasure and a great human being!

I keep coming back to your channel at what seems to be the perfect time. Love to you, John as well as all my fellow viewers. Your laugh always at least makes me smile/laugh right along with you.

Dear John, thank you for this message today, it has not fallen upon deaf (or me me me ears! ) Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water; But, for attacking the hard and strong, there is nothing like it! For nothing can take its place. That the weak overcomes the strong, and the soft overcomes the hard, / This is something known by all, but practiced by none. Have a peaceful remainder of the day everyone and god bless all.

"If you don't give them attention, they have no power." This for negative thoughts, memories and especially haters.

Very good video - great ideas and explanations - Thank you

Thank you John. 🙏😊

Wonderful again, thank you John - and Phil too. These videos are so helpful.

Don't care to answer any question. Just go on describing what you know, think and feel! That is therapeutic.

I have been absent from this site for a few weeks and it feels a bit like returning to a familiar embrace of unconditional love. This monkey mind that is part of our existence is a formidable force that conditions us so much. It is possible, I believe, to be beyond the dualistic mind and no longer be slave to it and its demands. I sense that John has experienced that and is intent on helping us discover it too. Thank you, John. Thank you, Phil. 🙏☺️💗

John's great.... Feet on the ground, stop and listen. Love him. Respect to Phil also for putting this channel together.

Thank you, John.

Thanks Gandalf

That which you resist, persists

Lovely location. Thank you.

The first answer is so simple and perfect

Thank you John, finally you've gotten through to me / or finally I understand more the "mechanism" by which I have the potential to understand/grow. I've watched many of your video's, but my "Monkey mind" has always got in the way. This video and what you say in it silenced the "Monkey mind" long enough for the real me to say "Ah!, now I understand the foundation from which I can go forward and build". Thank you so very much John & Phil.

As always, thank you

Thanks John. Peace

Love your videos John 😊😊 love from Arizona ❤️❤️❤️

Thank John and Phil, the countryside there is beautiful 🤗

God bless you!!!

Thank you, thank you.

I saw the BLM protest today from a distance . The first sign my eyes gaze upon is " SILENCE IS VIOLENCE" . "SILENCE IS DEAFENING" it almost made me laugh at how backwards the thinking was ! Little did these people know that perhaps if they were to be silent and still god would flow through them

Im very glad i found his videos, now im a huge fan. Greetings from Tijuana México

Thank you

John, the Good Shepherd.

Dear JOHN WE /I thank you for being able to give us, humanity some understanding of where we just get loss, mind is such a trickster,It aint real you can't touch it it is all an illusion.Bless you.

This man may just help save me from myself Love his heart. All we can do is love more. That’s his message.

God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. ‘God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.’ John 4:24 See also: Job 11:7-9; Ps. 90:2; Jas. 1:17; Ex. 3:14; Ps. 147:5; Rev. 4:8; 15:4; Ex. 34:6-7. It so sad to see someone trying to give spiritual ‘wisdom’ and they don’t even know who God is. Especially seeing as God has come in person, in the form of his only son Jesus Christ who came and died for the sins of those who trust in him and who rose again and who is sitting at the right hand of God, who will return to this earth to judge it. For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5 KJV).

Mindfulness puts a lot of emphasis on "listening", but what about our other senses? For example, I find it relaxing feeling the sun and gentle breeze on a 75 degree day walking or hiking where there's woods and mountains. How about feeling. Recent I took a trip to Colorado, and park on the side of a road where the Big Timber Mountains were, and there was a creek with clear flowing water. I crawled down to get to this creek, took my shoes off, and placed my feet in the water! Though it was cold, ot felt like my feet were being kissed with oil! The sun brighten my face and it felt like I was alive! Mindfulness isn't avout just listening and silence. It's about feeling with all of your senses in that silence. The sensations, the smells, the seeing of the beauty of God's creation. All that comes together and brings you peace and clarity. Best feeling in the world. I struggle with silence, because I'm hyperactive by the way.😁 A foolish mind utters everything in it. But a sound mind...there's wisdom. So yes, I'm foolish, but working on it. 😁✌

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Good one to all of you! Now, John, how would you say "feet on the ground" if it was more in tune with the other natural elements like air, fire, water or space? What would be the new words for "feet" and for "ground" ?

I find it honorable that even though John is a person who isn't really willing to stand firmly on orthodox Christianity, he is still bold enough to insist that there is a terrible place of outer darkness for those who reject God (or...whatever he thinks is that perfect peace). I too believe that the real terror and horror of what we call "Hell" (it has like...a hundred names) is less a burning lake of sulfur (though there might be such a thing) but rather the terrible absence of God and with His absence the absence of all good things (love, peace, friendship, hope, happiness, faith, etc.) I have suffered from depression and I have been in great physical pain. Of the two, I'd rather have the physical pain than to feel that gnawing emptiness in my heart. I believe that the scariest part about Hell is that terrible loneliness and despair. The realization that even though you turned from God at every opportunity, He was still there taking care of you and being your friend. The realization that now that you have what you wanted - a life without Him - you realize that life is no life at all - and it is too late. Fortunately, God has not left us orphans. God has made a way for us to be restored to Him what was lost in our sin through the person and works of Jesus Christ - who died on a cross to take that terrible fate from us and onto Himself. Having swallowed up death, He rose again, and now lives forever at the right hand of the Father in Heaven to intercede and save completely those who put their trust in Him. Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all we could ever dream or hope for - to Him be glory and honor and praise forever! Amen!

i just learned something new which was "you gotta be cruel to be kind"

Beautiful🌷❤

Until Tomorrow John ....

This man is the encapsulation of the Faustian spirit

Outdoor John is great

As Mom used to say, looking spiffy!

God is Love and Jesus Christ, His son, is our saviour. There's your answer.

Why you always cutting periods of video where is just silence? Those are very precious to. Look at another spiritual teachers videos periods of silence are not cutt of.

Tune in next episode. John Butler VS Master Roshi.

In my experience, there appears to be more than one kind of "silence;" the first kind is the silence you try to hear, it's rather mundane, distinctly flat, thoughts and stimuli come and go, interspersed with vague spaciousness, neutral or vaguely pleasant. Small awareness, tenuously aware of a small awareness. Nothing spectacular. The second kind is much more profound and _cannot_ be invoked by the will: it's when the Silence hears _you._ Completely different phenomena. I've long-given up hope that I'll ever experience that again. So be it. Beer helps.

I would be envious for stillness.

Just listen to the sound of my voice… and s l o w l y become the silence… Deliciously hypnotic ❤️

Why does my mind attack me? Because you are a sinner, like us all. You have the human problem of sin in you, Daniel. That’s why Jesus came and died, to save us from our sins. John, Jesus did not mean resist not evil when we are dealing with our own sin, the flesh and the devil. We are meant to fight it, with His strength and only with His strength can we do that. On the other hand, Jesus did say resist not evil when someone (a person) does wrong to us, i.e. don’t retaliate. ‘But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also’ (Matthew 5:39 KJV) You have to look at the context of scripture.

' The mind pops up ! ' The ever present stillness or silence simply remains ever present . Hahahaha . Like a bubble the mind pops and it is gone . 😀😃😄

There's a scripture in the bible that says be still and know that I am God.

When I try and listen behind the sounds I just hear a ringing in my head. Is that silence?

"The Power of Now" (by Eckhart Tolle) talks extensively about this

"How can you argue about silence"

God & Evil are equal both combination of one