When I first heard the term "self-realization," I thought that was a lot better than enlightenment. There seemed to be an aura of special knowledge to it. So, I invested that word with a magical component, which is what we do with words anyway. We have this inclination to think of words as the gateway to understanding and clarity and, in the spiritual arena, as the gateway to self-realization -- a state that we imagine to be outside of and apart from normal experience. That love affair with the idea of realization did me no good. If it had any effect at all, it was to delay the day when I was done with suffering and misery once and for all.
Complete recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on March 15, 2008.
Length: 1 h 27 min
File size: 20.96 MB
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