John Sherman Podcast

Online Intensive - Meeting 5 - July 8, 2011

John reviews and summarizes each meeting of the intensive:

1) This work is not a spiritual teaching;
2) The fear of life; the healing of the wound of alienation and disaffection with your life;
3) The act of looking as the effective way to heal the wound;
4) The resulting compassion: what it is and what it isn't;
5) Conversations.

Complete recording of Meeting 5 of a Five-Day Online Intensive with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 8, 2011.



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Length: 1h 52 min
File size: 26.85 MB

A Worldwide Meeting - September 10, 2011

"The irresistible inclination to turn yourself into an abstraction, into some concept of how it would feel to be free, such as "the one who is looking", "awareness", "love", "heart", "emptiness", "consciousness", and the like actually poisons the spiritual teachings themselves and transforms them into things that can be dealt with within the context of fear and the never-ending project of trying to protect and perfect the apparatus of personality. The only goal of this movement into abstraction is to keep me safe from my own life. At the bottom of it is always the unseen assumption that life is dangerous, that I am in grave danger here." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on September 10, 2011. 

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Length: 2 h 05 min
File size: 30.17 MB

Open House Meeting - September 14, 2011

"The way to check if you're making progress is to look and see if the distance between you and your life is shrinking. That's the important thing, not anything else. Not the attainment of perfect peace, or perfect clarity, or perfect understanding. You are here to experience your life. That's the only reason you're here." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Online Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on September 14, 2011.

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Length: 59 min
File size: 28.44 MB

Online Intensive - Meeting 4 - July 7, 2011

"I think the reason compassion is seen to be the road to enlightenment is because the rise of compassion is a result of being free from the fear of life. Compassion is not a love sensation, it's unpleasant. Compassion is nothing other than your experience of someone else's pain." John Sherman

Complete recording of Meeting 4 of a Five-Day Online Intensive with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 7, 2011. 

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Length: 1h 56 min
File size: 55.69 MB

Open House Meeting - September 7, 2011

"It's not that I have any objection to spiritual aspiration and it's not that I don't see the deep beauty and value of spiritual teachings and spiritual understanding. The case is that the spiritual bubble, the spiritual point of view, the spiritual outlook actually makes it difficult for anyone to accomplish this simple, non-spiritual act of trying to get a direct taste of what it feels like to be me." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Online Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on September 7, 2011.

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Length: 58 min
File size: 13.96 MB

Online Intensive Meeting 3 - July 6, 2011

"It is our default assumption that there is something wrong with me. That there's something about my character that needs to be changed. That there is something I understand wrongly, or something that I need to understand and don't. That there's something that I need to know and don't. That there's some idea I have that's off, and not right. That my fate is tied to the nature of the thoughts that rise and fall within me, the nature of the desires that rise and fall within me, the nature of the aversions that rise and fall within me. That my fate is tied to those things. Looking at yourself does away with all of that." John Sherman

Complete recording of Meeting 3 of a Five-Day Online Intensive with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 6, 2011.



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Length: 1h 45 min
File size: 25.18 MB