Videos of Meetings with John Sherman

John Sherman's Video Podcast

2012-09-02T11:48:00.000-07:00

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.

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A Meeting with John Sherman - November 4, 2007

2008-10-25T15:14:00.004-07:00

"There is no boundary to your mind; there is no place where your mind is not. There is no distance between you and me, although there is separation between you and me, and that separation is the greatest gift of all. When we become involved in spiritual practices, we come to the idea that all is one and separation is bad. But that is childish. All is one, and separation is part of it. Without separation, we would not have this capacity to speak to each other." -- John Sherman

Live recording of part of a Meeting with John Sherman during the 2007 Five-Day Retreat in Ojai, California.

Videotaped on November 4, 2007.

Length: 29 min

Interview with John Sherman - Part 1

2008-08-21T19:15:00.001-07:00

Part 1 of a 4-part interview with John Sherman, hosted by Richard Miller in Oak Park, Illinois.

The interview was divided into four 1-hour episodes which were originally broadcast on public access tv in Chicago, Illinois.

Taped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 21, 2007.

Length: 57 minutes

Interview with John Sherman - Part 2

2008-08-21T19:05:00.000-07:00

Part 2 of a 4-part interview with John Sherman, hosted by Richard Miller in Oak Park, Illinois.

The interview was divided into four 1-hour episodes which were originally broadcast on public access tv in Chicago, Illinois.

Taped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 21, 2007.

Length: 57 minutes

Interview with John Sherman - Part 3

2008-08-21T17:00:00.000-07:00

Part 3 of a 4-part interview with John Sherman, hosted by Richard Miller in Oak Park, Illinois.

The interview was divided into four 1-hour episodes which were originally broadcast on public access tv in Chicago, Illinois.

Taped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 25, 2007.

Length: 57 minutes

Interview with John Sherman - Part 4

2008-08-20T14:32:00.000-07:00

Part 4 of a 4-part interview with John Sherman, hosted by Richard Miller in Oak Park, Illinois.

The interview was divided into four 1-hour episodes which were originally broadcast on public access tv in Chicago, Illinois.

Taped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 25, 2007.

Length: 57 minutes

A Meeting with John Sherman - November 3, 2007 pm

2008-08-01T14:59:00.001-07:00

Once the vichara is undertaken, it teaches itself. So, what I want to do is get you doing the vichara, that's all. All I want is that everybody I speak to begins doing the inquiry according to their own understanding and ability. I don't want you to get enlightened. Enlightenment is not on the table here. It is a fool's game. It gets us hooked up. Whatever you have done in your search, it has brought you here to the question, "Who am I?"

Live recording of Opening Talk at a Meeting with John Sherman during the 2007 Five-Day Retreat in Ojai, California.

Videotaped on November 3, 2007.
Length: 29 min

A Meeting with John Sherman - November 3, 2007 am

2008-06-22T18:58:00.005-07:00

"Don't concern yourself with spiritual understanding. Look at yourself. Open the door and let the light in. The light takes care of everything."

Live recording of part of a Meeting with John Sherman during the 2007 Five-Day Retreat in Ojai, California.

Videotaped on November 3, 2007.
Length: 29 min

A Worldwide Meeting - May 3, 2008 Part 1

2008-06-03T11:16:00.001-07:00

Spiritual ideas such as "resist nothing," "stop," or "call off the search" and the like are not instructions, they are simply attempts to speak of the outcome of our seeking. What we seek is the direct taste of the sense of self, and this brings us, again and again, face-to-face with the light of reality. It is that light that does all the work. It is that light that snuffs out the deep, unseen conviction that we are these lives, these minds, these bodies and nothing more, and that we are at stake in these lives. Then we see what is meant by all spiritual ideas.

Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting on May 3, 2008.

Part 1 of a 2-part video with John Sherman.
Videotaped in Ojai, California, on May 3, 2008.
Length: 29 min

A Worldwide Meeting - May 3, 2008 Part 2

2008-06-02T09:35:00.000-07:00

Spiritual ideas such as "resist nothing," "stop," or "call off the search" and the like are not instructions, they are simply attempts to speak of the outcome of our seeking. What we seek is the direct taste of the sense of self, and this brings us, again and again, face-to-face with the light of reality. It is that light that does all the work. It is that light that snuffs out the deep, unseen conviction that we are these lives, these minds, these bodies and nothing more, and that we are at stake in these lives. Then we see what is meant by all spiritual ideas.

Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting on May 3, 2008.

Part 2 of a 2-part video with John Sherman.
Videotaped in Ojai, California, on May 3, 2008.
Length: 29 min

A Worldwide Meeting - April 5, 2008

2008-04-13T12:52:00.001-07:00

Once you embark upon the real effort to rid yourself of all beliefs about what you are, that effort makes the mind transparent to reality.

Videotaped in Ojai, California, on April 5, 2008
Duration: 27 min

A Worldwide Meeting - September 15, 2007 - Part 1

2008-04-04T18:00:00.000-08:00

Most of the questions I receive are about phenomena arising in the mind. None of that needs to be addressed; nothing needs to be done about the mind. All that's needed is to move the beam of your attention to the certainty that you exist as often as possible. Once you start looking for the reality of you, you will come back to this looking, again and again. And it is the looking that does all the work.

Part 1 of a 3-part video of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman in Ojai, California, on September 15, 2007.

Length: 9 min

File size: 25 Mb

A Worldwide Meeting - September 15, 2007 - Part 2

2008-04-04T17:55:00.000-08:00

Most of the questions I receive are about phenomena arising in the mind. None of that needs to be addressed; nothing needs to be done about the mind. All that's needed is to move the beam of your attention to the certainty that you exist as often as possible. Once you start looking for the reality of you, you will come back to this looking, again and again. And it is the looking that does all the work.

Part 2 of a 3-part video of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman in Ojai, California, on September 15, 2007.

Length: 9 min

File size: 30 Mb

A Worldwide Meeting - September 15, 2007 - Part 3

2008-04-04T17:05:00.000-08:00

Most of the questions I receive are about phenomena arising in the mind. None of that needs to be addressed; nothing needs to be done about the mind. All that's needed is to move the beam of your attention to the certainty that you exist as often as possible. Once you start looking for the reality of you, you will come back to this looking, again and again. And it is the looking that does all the work.

Part 3 of a 3-part video of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman in Ojai, California, on September 15, 2007.

Length: 9 min

File size: 30 Mb

Never Not Here Show - Part 1

2008-03-24T13:18:00.000-08:00

Part 1 of a 4-part interview with John Sherman.
Videotaped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 21, 2007
Duration: 60 minutes

Never Not Here Show - Part 2

2008-03-24T13:16:00.000-08:00

Part 2 of a 4-part interview with John Sherman.
Videotaped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 21, 2007
Duration: 60 minutes

Never Not Here Show - Part 3

2008-03-24T13:13:00.000-08:00

Part 3 of a 4-part interview with John Sherman.
Videotaped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 25, 2007
Duration: 60 minutes

Never Not Here Show - Part 4

2008-03-24T13:10:00.000-08:00

Last part of a 4-part interview with John Sherman.
Videotaped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 25, 2007
Duration: 60 minutes

The Last Resort - Part 1

2007-12-26T22:10:00.001-08:00

The Last Resort - Part 2

2007-12-26T22:08:00.000-08:00

The Last Resort - Part 3

2007-12-26T22:06:00.000-08:00

The Last Resort - Part 4

2007-12-26T22:02:00.000-08:00

The Last Resort - Full version

2007-12-26T13:03:00.002-08:00

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 all the problems of the human race disappear -- really.

My goal is not to find a way to impress upon you how wonderful life is (or how sweet it is, or beautiful or how loving it is). Because that is easy. There are poets who have done that; there are 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, all kinds of spiritual utterances 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.

So, I don't even bother with that too much. I guess sometimes I slip into it, but that is not my purpose; that is not my work here. My purpose, and my work, is to find a way to communicate to you (and to everybody who can hear) how easy it is to be finished with the experience of misery and suffering that is really the only thing that prevents us from seeing for ourselves what a wonder existence is. And it is the easiness of it that is so difficult to convey. -- John Sherman

Complete live recording of a Worldwide Meeting on September 29, 2007.

Filmed in Ojai, California.

Total time: 1 h 27 min.

Truth Is Easy

2007-01-09T18:03:00.000-08:00

All your suffering is caused by the belief that you are your life, your thoughts, your story. The only solution is the truth about what you are. And that is easy to find: you are always here.
From the DVD I Am Never Not Here
Filmed live in Ojai, California on October 7, 2006.
Duration: 7 minutes

John Meets Gangaji - Part 1

2006-10-29T17:12:00.000-08:00

John talks about his first meeting with his teacher, Gangaji, and how that meeting changed his life.
Filmed live in Ashland, Oregon on May 18, 2006.
Duration: 10 minutes