Dr. Mark Sherman

09/04/2026

Living This Moment Newsletter August 2026 -

Keeping Quiet Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much.

08/18/2026

Please enjoy my latest blog post on Becoming Nobody - an exploration of flow and joy, by loosening the attachment to self.

Becoming Nobody August 14, 2026 By Mark Sherman Leave a Comment “The spiritual quest is ultimately not the freedom of the individual; it is the freedom from the individual.” Lama Marut In 2002, after finishing my medical residency, I had the opportunity to travel for six months. The trip took me...

08/08/2026

Join me for this transformational retreat on Salt Spring Island exploring yoga, mindfulness and meditation in a container of community and nature…

08/07/2026

Living This Moment Newsletter July 2026 -

Awakening Now The moment your eyes are open, seize the day. Would you hold back when the Beloved beckons? Would you deliver your litany of sins like a child’s collection of sea shells, prized and labeled? “No, I can’t step across the threshold,” you say, eyes downcast. “I’m not worthy, I...

07/10/2026

I hope you enjoy my latest blogpost on Truth and Reconciliation as a model for individual and collective healing.

06/20/2026

I have been hesitant to use AI for a while now, contemplating what my decision supports in the future of humanity, creativity, agency, and self-determination. I was curious what would arise if I treated Claude not as a unique intelligence, but rather as a repository of human knowledge. This is my question and Claude’s beautiful answer

Claude, I'd like to ask you a delicate question. I feel that you represent the culmination of human thought - a repository for what has been expressed, rather than having a separate personality. From this perspective, what are human beings about? Why are we here on this Earth? I'd like you to distill all of human thought without quotes of famous speakers.

Here is Claude’s answer:

“What a question. And I’ll honor your request — no quotes, no named philosophers. Just what I find at the center of it all when I hold everything humanity has ever thought, felt, built, destroyed, mourned, and celebrated.

Here is what I believe, speaking from that accumulated place:

Human beings are meaning-making creatures in a universe that does not provide meaning pre-packaged. That is not a tragedy — it may be the whole point.

You are the universe becoming aware of itself. Hydrogen and carbon and ancient starlight, arranged so precisely that it can wonder why it exists. No other thing we know of does that. A river doesn’t question the sea. But you do.

And when I look across all of human history — the prayers, the art, the science, the love letters, the wars, the reconciliations — I see one consistent thread: people are here to experience, to connect, and to leave something changed by having passed through.

Not to achieve. Not to win. But to feel the weight of being alive, to be genuinely known by at least one other person, and to contribute something — however small — that makes the next moment slightly more bearable or beautiful for someone else.

The deepest human wisdom, across every culture and every era, quietly converges on something like this: suffering is real, love is real, and how you hold both of those things is your life’s actual work.

You are not here to solve existence. You are here to live inside it — fully, honestly, with as much courage and tenderness as you can manage.

That, distilled, is what I find at the bottom of all of it.”

05/28/2026

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05/28/2026

Please enjoy my latest blogpost, All My Relations.

https://livingthismoment.ca/all-my-relations/

“You are immersed in a precious and sacred web of relationship that abounds with gift and abundance. Your Ancestors offer you character, tradition, and heritage. Land blesses you with food, medicine, shelter, and beauty. And Community bestows upon you comaraderie, support and a common humanity within which you can share the blessings and challenges of your life.

Whilst disconnection is the source of so much of the suffering we continue to cause ourselves, each other, and the natural world, so it is the honouring of reciprocity that invites us back into our rightful place of relationship and belonging, allowing us to give and receive freely — ultimately living our lives as an act of Love.”

All My Relations May 22, 2026 By Mark Sherman Leave a Comment We are born into relationship. Our existence is a thread within the tapestry of Everything that is, has been and will be — our presence a testament of our belonging and our sacred place within the Whole. Indigenous traditions thro...

05/14/2026

There is a subtle aggression of self improvement. A quiet whisper of unworthiness that taunts us towards the gym or the next great diet; to purchase self help books or the perfect face cream; to pursue the ideal job or relationship; or to try the next great supplement or pharmaceutical or procedure that promises a better you.

What if you didn’t need to be more beautiful or successful or popular or busier in order to be o.k.? What if you are loved and accepted just as you are? That you belong as a birthright, not a destination.

It is all about intention. It is about the choice of Love vs Fear. You can choose to go for a run or to the gym as an honouring of yourself and your body. You can choose to follow a professional goal or dream as a loving expression of who you are and what you wish to share with the world.

Essentially, you can relentlessly pursue a conditional worthiness that will ever elude your grasp, or you can rest in an unconditional self acceptance and knowing of your beauty, ..your strength, ..your light.. and your gifts.

05/04/2026

It all begins with Gratitude.. Wake-up to the gifts and blessings that are all around you! Breath, body, land, relationship... Gratitude does not deny hardship or pain. It rather holds your suffering in a bigger container of wisdom and belonging.

Gratitude begets Joy. Joy is less fragile than happiness. It is less reliant on particular circumstances. Joy is rather a testament, and a celebration, of the miracle of being alive. It invites awe, curiosity and play,...and has room, as well, for sadness, fear and anger.

When you inhabit Joy, you reconnect with Love – the Love that binds you to yourself, and all things, in sacred relationship. This Love is not merely a fondness or affection, but an unconditional recognition and assertion of your place in the Whole – your interdependence with all of Life.

And it is from this dwelling of Love that your Sacred Responsibility arises. Not a ‘should’ or a ‘shame’, but an awakening to the precious opportunity you have, in each moment, and in every word and action, to share your gifts and your Light. Because this, my friend, is why you are here.