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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. Taped on May 16, 2009 (8 minutes). Download video: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), cell phone video (.3gp) Download audio only: MP3 Audio (.mp3) Read the text from this video.
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John Sherman Podcast A Worldwide Online Meeting - July 10, 2010 "My role in this adventure of trying to bring the simplicity of this work to every human being is not to concoct teachings, ways of looking at things, instructions and practices that are my creation, and then pass them on to you for you to receive gratefully, and try to make sense of. My role here is actually to distill and articulate the product of an ongoing conversation among all of us, over a period of more than ten years now, about the discovery that bringing an end to misery in a human life is actually not only possible but easy and simple, and can be done by anyone." John Sherman Complete, live recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 10, 2010.
Excerpts from Meetings Is The Looking Spiritual? Adapted from A Meeting with John Sherman in Santa Monica, California on March 28, 2010 I would like you to check and see if there is an opinion working within you to the effect that what I am suggesting and what I speak about is another version of some other teaching. Another version of advaita vedanta, or non-duality, or any of that stuff. I'd really like you to check and see whether that relationship to what I am saying is alive within you, because if it is alive within you, I would suggest that before you go any further, you really look at that.
How We Can End The War Adapted from A Meeting with John Sherman in Boulder, Colorado on June 17, 2005 The world of humans is in a hell of a mess. There are wars and rumors of wars, there are people blowing themselves up; there are murders, horror stories everywhere, more war, and more war. Even the earth seems to be revolting against us with storms, tsunamis, and earthquakes. The world of humans is really in a hell of a mess. The world of humans is desperate and, in times like these, the very idea of seeking after some personal spiritual liberation, some individual breaking of the chains of ignorance can seem self-indulgent and even risky — it is risky to take our eyes off of what is going on in the world, lest somebody come and blow themselves up on the bus that we are on, or a comet fall from the sky, or the earth open up beneath us.
Complete Transcriptions of Meetings Complete Transcription of an Open Meeting with John Sherman in Santa Monica, California on 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.
Translation of Texts by John Sherman into Portuguese Um Encontro com John Sherman em Santa Mônica, Califórnia em 26 de julho de 2009.
Este olhar é espiritual? Adaptado de um Encontro com John Sherman em Santa Monica, Califórnia em 28 de março de 2010
New Translations of Texts by John Sherman into Russian Тексты Джона Шермана на русском языке: Смотреть на себя – духовное ли это дело?
2007 Retreat Videos Complete videos of all 8 meetings of the 2007 Retreat with John Sherman in Ojai, California on November 6-10, 2007.
Magic Bullets This blog contains writings by John Trimpi. It tells the story of one man's continuing experience in the adventure of looking at himself. He writes of his meeting with John Sherman, his initial skepticism and doubts about the practice, and his eventual conviction arising from his own experience that everything John says about the effectiveness of this practice is true. In John Trimpi's words, "The rocks and boulders of misidentification are disintegrated (...) until nothing remains to block you from the present experience of life. The energy of fear dissipates... " Through captivating poetry and fine prose, his clear seeing and deep reflection on his own experience are gift to us all.
New Audio Recordings An Afternoon with John Sherman in Ojai, California on July 18, 2010 Complete audio recording of the two meetings, available as a 4-CD set and on 2 mp3 files. More information about the 4-CD set. More information about the mp3 files:
Meeting with John Sherman in Santa Monica, California on June 27, 2010 Complete audio recording of the meeting, available as a double-CD and as an mp3 file. More information about the double-CD. More information about the mp3 file. 2009 Retreat in Ojai, California - November 6-10, 2009 Complete audio recording of the meetings, available as a 16-CD set and as mp3 files. More information about the 16-CD set. More information about the mp3 files.
Video DVDs 2007 & 2008 Retreat DVDsAll the DVDs of the 2007 Retreat and the 2008 Retreat are available both as 8-DVD sets and single DVDs. Click here to go to our webstore.
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A Worldwide Meeting - July 10, 2010 My role in this adventure of trying to bring the simplicity of this work to every human being is not to concoct teachings, ways of looking at things, instructions and practices that are my creation, and then pass them on to you for you to receive gratefully, and try to make sense of. My role here is actually to distill and articulate the product of an ongoing conversation among all of us, over a period of more than ten years now, about the discovery that bringing an end to misery in a human life is actually not only possible but easy and simple, and can be done by anyone. It requires nothing at all to accomplish this except the determination to do one simple, solitary, radical act, and that is to turn the beam of your attention onto the feeling of being you. That's it. In the end, and against all odds and all expectation, this repeated act will bring sanity into your life. It will eliminate the underlying sense that life is treacherous and not to be trusted, and that something desperately needs to be done about it. Complete, live recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 10, 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 practice of looking at oneself 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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