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 Westlake Village, California - April 29, 2007

There is a word I haven't used for a long time, but I am going to use it here with you guys today. I actually have spent quite a number of years avoiding this word, and just recently I have come to see that it is what we are about here. What I am here for is to bring you to enlightenment. Not the ideas about enlightenment that have taken hold of the spiritual community, by which I mean the probably hundreds of millions of people who are seeking enlightenment, seeking some transformation, seeking some transcendence, seeking nirvana, seeking eternal bliss. Here, we are about the reality of enlightenment, which is just bringing the light of reality to bear on all beliefs as to what I am.

Complete transcription of a Meeting with John Sherman on April 29, 2007 in Westlake Village, California.

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A Worldwide Online Meeting - September 29, 2007

The Last Resort

And here I am again, seeking to find some way to express and communicate not just to you, but to the world, how easy it is to be finished with misery and suffering in this life, right now. And, in the finishing of misery and suffering, how really all the problems of the human race disappear. But my problem is not to find a way to impress upon you how wonderful life is, or how sweet it is, or how beautiful it is, or loving or any of that stuff, because that's easy. There are poets that have done that, and musicians, and singers, and songwriters that have done that, there are preachers that have done that, and done it well. There are sutras, and shastras, and Upanishads, and all kinds of spiritual utterance that have been devoted to persuading us, or describing to us how wonderful life is, how wonderful existence is, how ubiquitous and universal is the bliss of being.

Complete transcription of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman on September 29, 2007.

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