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A Message from John Sherman. My name is John Sherman and I want to invite you to enter into an ongoing conversation with me and a number of others about the human predicament, its cause and its cure. A message from John Sherman, taped on May 16, 2009 (8 minutes). Download files: Flash Video (.flv), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), cell phone video (.3gp)
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John Sherman Podcast A Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman - January 16, 2010 "In the beginning, that which moves someone to do the vichara is the same desire to be rid of fear and dissatisfaction and be happy with life that drives everything else we do. What makes vichara different from all our other ineffective efforts to find happiness is that it really works." John Sherman Complete, live recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on January 16, 2010.
Transcriptions of Meetings Complete Transcription of A Meeting with John Sherman in Santa Monica, California - November 22, 2009. The only thing that needs to be done so you can be finished, once and for all, with the entire array of things that arise from the sense that there is something wrong with your life — something wrong with you, something you're doing wrong, something you're not doing that you should be doing, something you don’t understand, something you should understand; the only thing that needs to be done to dissolve and evaporate that entire sense that there's something wrong, something that needs to be fixed before you can finally get whatever it is that life has to offer you is to look at you. Read the complete transcription.
2007 Retreat Videos Complete videos of all 8 meetings of the 2007 Retreat with John Sherman in Ojai, California on November 6-10, 2007. Watch and download the videos.
New Audio Recordings Open Meeting in Santa Monica, California on January 24, 2010 Complete recording of the meeting, available on audio CD and on mp3 file. More information about the CD. More information about the mp3 file.
2009 Retreat in Ojai, California - November 6-10, 2009 Complete recordings of the meetings, available on audio CDs and mp3 files. More information about the CD set. More information about the mp3 files.
Video DVDs 2007 & 2008 Retreat DVDs All the DVDs of the 2007 Retreat and the 2008 Retreat are now available both as 8-DVD sets and single DVDs. Click here to go to our webstore.
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Saturday, February 13 at 1 pm PT (UTC/GMT -8) People all over the world gather together online with John for a couple of hours. John is available to listen to your questions, and to help you sort out any difficulties you might experience in your own practice of the vichara. |
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A Meeting with John Sherman - January 16, 2010 "In the beginning, that which moves someone to do the vichara is the same desire to be rid of fear and dissatisfaction and be happy with life that drives everything else we do. What makes vichara different from all our other ineffective efforts to find happiness is that it really works." John Sherman Complete, live recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on January 16, 2010. |
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Our Work First, last, and always, my advice is only to look at the feeling of being you, without the mediation of understanding, the need to resolve paradox, or the requirement that this looking lead to any conclusion. Simply make every effort just to look, and persist in that effort as often as you can. In this effort, understanding is irrelevant, belief is irrelevant, even duration is irrelevant -- the briefest look, repeated over time, does all the work. A Message from John Sherman, videotaped in Ojai, California on May 15, 2009. |
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Our work is to bring the vichara to all who are interested. The only problem anywhere to be found is the false belief that you are at the mercy of your life, and the only solution is the truth, which is everywhere and always present and self-evident. Ridding oneself of the false is as easy as repeatedly tasting the truth of being here, unmovingly, unchangingly here. This repeated looking directly at oneself is the infallible method of the vichara. Although our meetings are free of charge, they are certainly not free of cost. The money needed for this work must come entirely from the generosity and compassion of those who, like us, have seen for themselves the immense worth of spreading this good news to all humanity. Please help provide financial support for the work of making this method more widely available in the world by making a donation or a monthly pledge in any amount now. All gifts to the RiverGanga Foundation are fully tax-deductible as charitable donations. |
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