Here I am again, seeking to find some way to 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.


Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman on September 29, 2007.

Length: 1 h 25 min. File size: 20 Mb





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