| 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 |
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A Meeting in Santa Monica, California - November 21, 2004
At the End of your Rope Well, I come here to speak with you, as always, about the possibility of discovering the truth of your own nature. I don't come here to offer you new descriptions of spiritual reality, or to offer you any kind of initiation, shaktipat or the triggering of huge spiritual experiences. There has been enough of that already. I come to you only to speak about the immediate, present possibility of discovering the truth of your own nature. This possibility, and the way to go about it, is the gift of Ramana Maharshi. Ramana always held that the capacity to actually discover the truth of one's nature was very rare; that it appeared in very few people in the world. And I have, of course (given my own understanding of my own history), always felt that he was off in that assessment. If such a one as this could be led to this, then anybody can. That has always been my view of it. Complete transcription of a Meeting with John Sherman on November 21, 2004 in Santa Monica, California. Continued ...
A Meeting in Santa Monica, California - March 18, 2007
The Secret of Eternal Happiness Most spiritual teachings and most spiritual practices begin with the evocation of the vast mystery in which we appear and disappear, the evocation of the hugeness, of the unknowingness in which we have our being as these individual life apparatuses and, as a result of that, we think that it is in that experience of the mystery, of the unknowingness, the hugeness and the vastness that we will find our salvation and our redemption. And we spend, God knows, maybe lifetimes (one lifetime is enough for anybody!) trying to have the experience of that mystery, of that hugeness, of God, of Love, of eternal being, of eternal consciousness, and we suffer. We suffer. But I tell you, that is because we put the cart before the horse. So long as we believe ourselves to be our lives, this vastness is inaccessible to us. So long as we believe ourselves to be our lives, this great mystery of reality is untouchable by us. But, when that belief is gone, the infinite certainty of the untouchable reality is seen to be ever present, not far, not needing to be gotten. Here, here always. We've got to stop putting the cart before the horse. We've got to start where we are, which is trapped in this stupid belief that "I am my life." We've got to rid ourselves of that. And that's easy. It's as easy as falling off a log. Honest, cross my heart. It is simpler than I ever imagined. Complete transcription of a Meeting with John Sherman on March 18, 2007 in Santa Monica, California. Continued ... |
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