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 Meeting in Boulder, Colorado - June 28, 2007

Escape from the Spiritual Ghetto

What we falsely believe ourselves to be is our lives, the totality of our lives, the whole of this individual human consciousness, the whole of the universe that is "my life." The whole show: the history, the train of thought, the desires, the aversions, the wanting, the not-wanting, the getting, the not-getting, the memories, the projections, the expectations, what I want in the future, what I want to become, what I want to be, what I wish I weren't, what I wish I hadn't done, the room that we sit in. All of these human manifestations that are in our mind now, as we sit here, that are the components of our life. The stars, the sun, the moon, the planets, the galaxies; what we see, what we know, what we understand, what we don't understand, what we wish we understood, the wishing itself, the compassion, the sweetness, the quietness, the aggression, the hatred, the hostility, the endless din of thought, all of it. Not a part of it, but all of it.

Complete transcription of a Meeting with John Sherman on June 28, 2007 in Boulder, Colorado.

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