I had been meditating for a few years before hearing about Douglas. I never understood what egolessness was until the first time I did the pointing experiment. Then suddenly, BAM, there it was. I was always like this, but I just never looked at it.
@noonenobody4206it’s very simple.. but it might be terrifying if u are not really ready to drop everything as illusion.. there is nothing mystical abt it either.. it’s actually literal but if u r truly not ready, dont try.. it can put u into existential crisis.. being completely alone and your parents and everything and everyone u know of is imagined and not real.. these things r not for faint hearted
I did Vipassana meditation for 15 years, but Headlessness showed me instantly what I had been overlooking. I read the Sam Harris book "Waking Up" which mentions Douglas Harding and Headlessness. When reading about it, I got a brief flash of it, which scared me a little. Then I heard Richard Lang being interviewed by Harris on his podcast. Richard took the listener through the steps of "Seeing," and I got a better understanding of it. Richard's marvelous book, "Seeing Who You Really Are," has taught me so much. I am very grateful to him for writing it.
Having now viewed this fully, I come away thinking this is the one video anyone ever needs to see/know/understand who they “really-really are”. Lovely ❤️
As a traveller who got no physical guide around even though that's seems no problem mostly sometimes when it's gets overwhelming i carve for someone who understand it and can guide me it's seems it's a biggest blessing to atleast listen and see them on screen otherwise there's literally no one around me who seems even intersted in this, these peoples really encourage love you all.
So charismatic and so compelling - after reading two of his books without ever hearing/watching him (/being the space and silence for him), this was awesome to watch. Thank you Douglas, and thank you Richard.
I have watched the 12-minute extract from this talk (which begins at 0:19:20 here) at least two dozen times. Thank you for posting this full version, Richard.
Thank you Richard. Been watching and enjoying the excerpt of this for years and always wondered about from the talk it came from. Just love Douglas and The Headless Way. He was truly brilliant @ cutting away the mystery of it all.
Douglas Harding quote highlights from this video: “You are the sole and final authority on what you are in your own experience as first-person, singular, present tense-where you're coming from, what you're looking out of, what is sitting in your seat at this time, who you are in your own direct, unmediated experience of what it is like having happened into the world.” “Nobody has been where you are except you … Only you are in a position to say what it's like being you at this time.” “Nearly all of us live and die convinced that the as-if world-the world of convention mediated to us by parents, teachers, and language-is the real world.” “The first motive for looking at this is curiosity. I’ll be damned if I'll live and die without ever looking to see who is doing that.” “What is the message of all the great religions? Nearer to you than your hands, nearer than your feet, nearer than your breathing is the origin of the world. Who you really, really, really are is not a product of the world-it is the origin of the world … They say that nearer to you than all else is the eternal awakeness, awareness, reality from which all flows.” “The great delusion, the great nonsense, of the as-if world is that I am here what I look like there (in the mirror).” “It's as simple as that to come home to the place we never left.” “It's a matter of life and death to get this right.” “It's been advertised to be the most inaccessible, mysterious, difficult thing to see who we really, really, really, really are-you know, all this enlightened stuff. But, if you read the real masters, they will say it's the most obvious thing in the whole damn world who you really, really are.” “We're built busted wide open for each other.” “Have you ever in your life been face-to-face with anyone? Hasn't it been face-to-space?” “The great con, the great sellout, is to say, ‘I'm not going to dare to look at what I am. I'm going to take everybody's word for it.’” “We've occurred, and we're not going to die without having a look for ourselves at what has occurred.” “The great traditions say that this incredibly blessed thing is true: who you really, really, really are is the eternal reality, the imperishable being, from whom all come and to whom all return-and that this is visibly available and absolutely obvious when we dare to look.” “We will be better members of the human club when we withdraw, secretly, our subscription.” “As the great ones down the ages have said, if we live from what is given in all obviousness, we shall find blessing heaped on blessing and we shall see that we are built open for one another.” “Any road home is a good road. Any ticket home is a valid ticket.” “What is the essence of loving but to disappear in favor of the loved one.”
I also get that brief glimpse of self-lessness when I do the exercises. But it fades almost instantly. I suspect true, permanent realization can only come from something like a near-death experience, where you are forced to abandon all of the hopes, desires, beliefs, opinions, fears, etc, of the illusory self.
@@FirstPersonHood it’s interesting that other people’s testimonials of their enlightenment are useless. The illusory self is powerfully motivated to convince other selves of it’s uniqueness. The ego has to die in abject desperation.
once we get the glimpse, the work is to deliberately putting yourself there whenever possible. That's what will speed up the process and that's the only useful effort we as ego selves can and should do.
Thank you so much for this. I think, from where I am, my sense is that we are much closer to WHAT IS than WHAT IS is close to us. We are, perhaps, a tiny fragment of the Divine Mystery, but the DW is much more than us and much more than we could experience/know/comprehend. The whole of my being (or even of human being) might be within the DM but the DM might also be well beyond me and/or our being. Thanks again. 🙏
"Built for loving?" I thought. "But perception can be just easily as colored by fear as love." And then, a bit later, "But who whose eye is open would choose to live from fear rather than love?"
wonderful talk. douglas is so earnest you can't help but believe him. least of all when you realize for yourself that what he says is true. and without a doubt, the pole routine is the most surefire, repeatable technique i've come across to dispel the illusion of the self, where you almost jump out of your own body and into spaceless awareness using nothing but attention itself
I had been meditating for a few years before hearing about Douglas. I never understood what egolessness was until the first time I did the pointing experiment. Then suddenly, BAM, there it was. I was always like this, but I just never looked at it.
ABSOLUTELY
@noonenobody4206it’s very simple.. but it might be terrifying if u are not really ready to drop everything as illusion.. there is nothing mystical abt it either.. it’s actually literal but if u r truly not ready, dont try.. it can put u into existential crisis.. being completely alone and your parents and everything and everyone u know of is imagined and not real.. these things r not for faint hearted
I did Vipassana meditation for 15 years, but Headlessness showed me instantly what I had been overlooking.
I read the Sam Harris book "Waking Up" which mentions Douglas Harding and Headlessness. When reading about it, I got a brief flash of it, which scared me a little. Then I heard Richard Lang being interviewed by Harris on his podcast. Richard took the listener through the steps of "Seeing," and I got a better understanding of it.
Richard's marvelous book, "Seeing Who You Really Are," has taught me so much. I am very grateful to him for writing it.
Glad to hear it.
Having now viewed this fully, I come away thinking this is the one video anyone ever needs to see/know/understand who they “really-really are”. Lovely ❤️
ABSOLUTELY
As a traveller who got no physical guide around even though that's seems no problem mostly sometimes when it's gets overwhelming i carve for someone who understand it and can guide me it's seems it's a biggest blessing to atleast listen and see them on screen otherwise there's literally no one around me who seems even intersted in this, these peoples really encourage love you all.
So charismatic and so compelling - after reading two of his books without ever hearing/watching him (/being the space and silence for him), this was awesome to watch. Thank you Douglas, and thank you Richard.
I like the reminder of the contrast between the "as-if" world we are told we live in as compared to the "as-is" world we experience for ourselves.
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So good!
amazing "talk" , Douglas still speaks from the "as is" present world , as vivid as ever. thank you
I have watched the 12-minute extract from this talk (which begins at 0:19:20 here) at least two dozen times. Thank you for posting this full version, Richard.
You're welcome 🙂Yes, it's a great talk.
Thank you Richard. Been watching and enjoying the excerpt of this for years and always wondered about from the talk it came from. Just love Douglas and The Headless Way. He was truly brilliant @ cutting away the mystery of it all.
ABSOLUTELY
Thanks for posting this Richard. Douglas’s enthusiasm is infectious.
What a beautiful video thank you for sharing ❤
Absolutely Marvellous
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39:31 "A world in which love has a chance ..."
Douglas Harding quote highlights from this video: “You are the sole and final authority on what you are in your own experience as first-person, singular, present tense-where you're coming from, what you're looking out of, what is sitting in your seat at this time, who you are in your own direct, unmediated experience of what it is like having happened into the world.”
“Nobody has been where you are except you … Only you are in a position to say what it's like being you at this time.”
“Nearly all of us live and die convinced that the as-if world-the world of convention mediated to us by parents, teachers, and language-is the real world.”
“The first motive for looking at this is curiosity. I’ll be damned if I'll live and die without ever looking to see who is doing that.”
“What is the message of all the great religions? Nearer to you than your hands, nearer than your feet, nearer than your breathing is the origin of the world. Who you really, really, really are is not a product of the world-it is the origin of the world … They say that nearer to you than all else is the eternal awakeness, awareness, reality from which all flows.”
“The great delusion, the great nonsense, of the as-if world is that I am here what I look like there (in the mirror).”
“It's as simple as that to come home to the place we never left.”
“It's a matter of life and death to get this right.”
“It's been advertised to be the most inaccessible, mysterious, difficult thing to see who we really, really, really, really are-you know, all this enlightened stuff. But, if you read the real masters, they will say it's the most obvious thing in the whole damn world who you really, really are.”
“We're built busted wide open for each other.”
“Have you ever in your life been face-to-face with anyone? Hasn't it been face-to-space?”
“The great con, the great sellout, is to say, ‘I'm not going to dare to look at what I am. I'm going to take everybody's word for it.’”
“We've occurred, and we're not going to die without having a look for ourselves at what has occurred.”
“The great traditions say that this incredibly blessed thing is true: who you really, really, really are is the eternal reality, the imperishable being, from whom all come and to whom all return-and that this is visibly available and absolutely obvious when we dare to look.”
“We will be better members of the human club when we withdraw, secretly, our subscription.”
“As the great ones down the ages have said, if we live from what is given in all obviousness, we shall find blessing heaped on blessing and we shall see that we are built open for one another.”
“Any road home is a good road. Any ticket home is a valid ticket.”
“What is the essence of loving but to disappear in favor of the loved one.”
I also get that brief glimpse of self-lessness when I do the exercises. But it fades almost instantly. I suspect true, permanent realization can only come from something like a near-death experience, where you are forced to abandon all of the hopes, desires, beliefs, opinions, fears, etc, of the illusory self.
ALREADY Done. Ideas come and go.
@@TheSoteriologist are you speaking of a process? GOD ALREADY!
@@FirstPersonHood it’s interesting that other people’s testimonials of their enlightenment are useless. The illusory self is powerfully motivated to convince other selves of it’s uniqueness. The ego has to die in abject desperation.
@@delcapslock100 ABSOLUTELY
once we get the glimpse, the work is to deliberately putting yourself there whenever possible. That's what will speed up the process and that's the only useful effort we as ego selves can and should do.
Thank you for this ! Love Douglas Harding.
Thank you so much for this. I think, from where I am, my sense is that we are much closer to WHAT IS than WHAT IS is close to us. We are, perhaps, a tiny fragment of the Divine Mystery, but the DW is much more than us and much more than we could experience/know/comprehend. The whole of my being (or even of human being) might be within the DM but the DM might also be well beyond me and/or our being. Thanks again. 🙏
This is so incredible and profoundly true, I have been waiting for this video, wonderful, thank you for providing it.
Fantastic enthusiastic message from Douglas ❤
Refreshing to know where I belong!
Nisargadatta Maharaj stated stay with the I am and keep returning to it and eventually that is the state you will reside in
"Built for loving?" I thought. "But perception can be just easily as colored by fear as love." And then, a bit later, "But who whose eye is open would choose to live from fear rather than love?"
wonderful talk. douglas is so earnest you can't help but believe him. least of all when you realize for yourself that what he says is true. and without a doubt, the pole routine is the most surefire, repeatable technique i've come across to dispel the illusion of the self, where you almost jump out of your own body and into spaceless awareness using nothing but attention itself
Non visual pointing @1:10-1:20.
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His presence...
i have a reform for lectures get rid of the introduction
We will be coming home.
My business in life is to be centric and no longer eccentric by one yard
1:08:25 closed eyes
50:55 1:02:33 1:07:30 1:20:07
22:51 to 24:07 50:50. 55:03
1:30:15 - 1:30:55
30:26 Apophatic
44:11 "the great sellout"