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.
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
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
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
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
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.
We receive many, many beautiful and useful letters. Every month we try to feature one here that seems especially valuable and instructive for one reason or another.
La nouvelle version du livre Meeting Ramana Maharshi, Conversations with John Sherman, révisée en 2008, vous est présentée maintenant en traduction française.
The only thing that is certain is you, but nothing can be said that is at all helpful in describing you or explaining you, or even pointing to you. You are here. The only certainty there is, is that of your presence. I am not speaking of the sense of self, although the focusing of attention on the sense of self, or the I am, or beingness, or by whatever name it may be called, will in fact result in the vanishing of the sensational experience that is the sense of self. In the moment of its vanishing, what remains is you. That's the incredible value and utility of Ramana's suggestion that we look at ego and grab it by the throat. In so doing, that experience vanishes and what remains is you. You, face to face with you.
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