Transcriptions of Meetings with John Sherman

"Self-inquiry will not make of you anything that you are not already, but it will, over time, destroy the false belief that you are at the mercy of this body, this mind, this story, this life. That false belief is the root cause of all human suffering whatsoever." John Sherman

A Worldwide Online Meeting - May 27, 2007

Well, hello and welcome. I would say good afternoon, but I think it is only good afternoon here in Ojai, and probably not for most of you. But I'am happy to see you all here and I'm happy to be here with you. So, let me begin.

I have come to see that in these meetings -- especially in these meetings where there is a mixture of people, some of whom have been with me before and some of whom have not -- that I pretty much always start at the beginning. Sometimes I try to make it sound different. I try to be less boring by making it sound a little different, but really, I always start at the beginning.

I come to speak about self-inquiry. The reason I come to speak about self-inquiry is because, in my experience, the self-inquiry of Ramana Maharshi finishes the misery of human life. It finishes the sense of being alienated from life; it finishes the sense of wanting and not getting -- the sense of something at stake, the sense of life being deadly serious and miserable.

Complete transcription of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman on May 27, 2007.

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