I am not here to speak about self-inquiry. I want to make that very clear because, in the realm of spiritual aspiration and attainment, the term "self-inquiry" has a wide range of practices associated and attached to it that have been around for a very long time. Self-inquiry turns out to be not just one thing, but a number of things; it refers to a number of attitudes, a number of relationships with reality, a number of practices, philosophies, and metaphysical understandings. I am interested in persuading you to do just one thing: to look at yourself. Not at your true self, not at awareness, not at the witness, not at beingness, not at hereness or nowness, or any other "ness," but just at you. Not any kind of big, special, spiritual you. Not your spirit, not your soul, just you. This sense of yourself that has been here from the very beginning, that is here now, and remains here always; seldom attended to, but always present. Seldom looked at, but always in your awareness -- this you that you are.
Complete, live recording of A Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman on April 4, 2009.
Length: 1 h 14 min
File size: 17.88 MB
