We come to these meetings carrying with us an underlying sense of what it is we are here to discuss -- things having to do with the oneness of being, or eternal love, or emptiness, or liberation, or enlightenment, or self-realization. What I am trying to do is to shake that context, and set a new context that does not depend upon or require any spiritual component, any particular state of mind or frame of reference. The context in which I meet with you has very little to do with any of that. It has much more to do with an wide open, open-eyed, open-hearted investigation into reality. Not spiritual reality, just reality -- what is real.

And the more particular context in which I come to meet with you is the context that encourages our willingness to rid ourselves of all the false ideas about what we are. Not in order that we can become spiritual, or that we can confirm or deny any spiritual concept or idea, but just so that we can see what is real, the simple reality of what I am. Not so that I can be transformed or set free, or so that I can attain some new state of grace, but just to see the truth of it, the actual fact of it.


Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman on August 12, 2007.

Length: 1 h 56 min. File size: 28 Mb





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