Being Human Podcast

There is really no need to reconcile the looking with any other approach to human suffering. The looking is most effective when standing on the bare simplicity of the act itself without the complication of comparison. No harm can come from declining to complicate it. - John Sherman

Excerpt from of a Meeting with John Sherman on December 13, 2014.

"If you do what I ask you to do, you will experience an end to the mental misery that is the common human condition. And freedom from that misery will not look like anything you may have expected." John Sherman

Complete recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on September 20, 2014.

Length: 1 h 7 min

File size: 15.96 MB

"If you do what I ask you to do, you will experience an end to the mental misery that is the common human condition. And freedom from that misery will not look like anything you may have expected." John Sherman

Complete recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on September 20, 2014.

Length: 1 h 7 min

File size: 15.96 MB

"It's foolish to try to protect ourselves from the rest of the human community. We humans need a continuous relationship with one another. It is this give and take that strengthens and deepens our ability to live life consciously and skillfully." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on September 10, 2014.

Length: 40 min

File size: 9.56 MB

"It's foolish to try to protect ourselves from the rest of the human community. We humans need a continuous relationship with one another. It is this give and take that strengthens and deepens our ability to live life consciously and skillfully." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on September 10, 2014.

Length: 40 min

File size: 9.56 MB

"The most accurate description of what has happened to me since I looked at myself about 20 years ago is that now I fully inhabit my life, as it unfolds. There is no distance between me and my life." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 23, 2014.

Length: 36 min

File size: 8.77 MB

"If you take a close, objective look at the behavior of human beings, you will find it hard not to conclude that humanity is -- that is to say, we are -- for the most part, insane. Sane human beings do not rape, murder, and torture each other; sane human beings do not devastate the habitat, seek wealth without regard for the common good, or seek to dominate or demonize other human beings." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 19, 2014.

Length: 1 h 9 min

File size: 16.61 MB

"The purpose of moving attention away from an unpleasant sensation (and the thoughts about it) and focusing it on your breath is not to find a way to go into denial and relieve yourself of the unpleasantness of it. The appearance of that sensation--and the fact that attention has moved to it--is an opportunity for you to continue to develop the ability to decide consciously what you pay attention to." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 9, 2014.

Length: 30 min

File size: 13.8 MB

"Having looked at yourself, the best thing to do is to begin to strengthen your capacity to decide consciously where you put your attention." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on June 18, 2014.

Length: 31 min

File size: 7.41 MB

"Having looked at yourself, the best thing to do is to begin to strengthen your capacity to decide consciously where you put your attention." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on June 18, 2014.

Length: 31 min

File size: 7.41 MB