"We have an intuitive sense that the problem has something to do with separation, and we project this understanding onto the world and assume that it is the sense of being a separate individual being that needs to be eliminated. We learn to yearn for an end to that separation and we try to accomplish that by homogenizing the wild diversity of life itself and by trying to sink back into undifferentiated awareness. But without the existence of subject and object, without movement, shape, color, and noise, there is no awareness. Our only conceivable purpose here is to perceive the wildness of existence, and all our efforts to erase the sense of separation bring only frustration and heartache. Actual awakeness is the sense of being something in an ocean of other somethings, enthralled by the unfolding of reality. All our efforts to silence reality, no matter how sincerely they may promise awakening, are nothing more than the effort go back to sleep." John Sherman
Complete recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on June 4, 2011.
Length: 1h 56 min
File size: 27.9 MB
