“Who you really really reallly are is the Origin of this world NOT the Product of this World” , This is a radical change in perception! What great news!
When you listen to this your heart beats with recognition of something so intimate and true! Its so true that true words are piercing, they cut right into you. What an incredibly humble, loving, beautiful human being this man was!
What a great man. I just finished reading 'On Having No Head', a fantastic book which does a valiant job of describing much of the inexplicable things I have myself experienced. I was sad to hear that he passed away in 2007, but he did live till almost 100, which is probably a testament to his carefree attitude towards life. A true Zerocentric if ever there was one!
There is a bench situated in the beautiful gardens in "my" local park, and engraved upon it is this piece of writing: "l am immortal indeed, because l am always the first person, singular, present-tense 'l' and can never cease to exist, for l would have to be there - as that very existence - to know this apparent end".. This is dedicated to somebody or other who has passed on - apparently - as there are many benches in the park that have these loving short poems and dedications to the loved ones who have finished their karma here. l was just about gobsmacked (well, as gobsmacked as l can ever get these days), to see *real* wisdom in an otherwise beautiful yet spiritually vacant - materialistic - city of human beings.
First video I've seen by Harding. Read a few pages of No Head years and years ago, found it unintelligible, forgot it. This week I discovered the truth he discusses here and somehow remembered him. Glad I did! For me the discovery happened when it finally occurred to me to ask myself, "Who is the "myself" who's doing all this questioning about god, the meaning of life, how to live, etc.?" And I realized I'd been ignoring the real self while being buffeted by exterior realities, including my thoughts and emotions -- and they're not the self. I was miserable because I was ignorant of who I am: infinite love, an expression of God's own love. That's what Harding is getting at, isn't it? Why does he keep saying "even Judaism," as if it's unexpected that Jews would accept this insight? What Harding says is in fact the direct consequence of the Shema and revelation of the divine name to Moses; therefore it's central to Judaism. The god who is the Being-ness of all beings holds all creation in the embrace of his unity, and that embrace includes my "self." Any self other than that (e.g., an "objective" self) is an idol.
He says the Truth which is so simple yet so alien from our current states. So we laugh and snigger to handle this strange yet real truth. When the truth can be seen there is no silly uncomfortable laughter but real silence or real laughter.
Remarkable man.. highly recommend anyone to check out the ‘the man with no head’ the life and times of Douglas Harding. The format of the book really captures his message the best, and gave me a complete understanding of how he came to this insight!
or rather outside of his time, isn't that what all the great thinkers have done, ripped of the temporary carpet of the culture and ways of perception that surrounded while they were alive, and clearly described the same 'wooden flooring' of truth that lies beneath 'the carpet' for new ears.
Thank you Raptitude for bringing this extraordinary gift to your subscribers/readers! Also, Thank you Headexhange! For broadcasting your treasures! ;^)
It could easily be misinterpreted as "I am the creator of the world". All the 5 major religions are saying that "YOU are the creator of PERCEIVED world". You, the perciever and the world (percieved) appear simultaneously. Both are creation of thought and dissolves when thought comes to rest (mostly at death). There is a possibility of thought coming to rest while living...but the thought has momentum of 7 billion people on earth, each one assuming that 'you' exist in a 'their' percieved world.
In my experience it is not that thought comes to an end it is that the thought can just be free range not fenced in by the arising of the “l” thought. If one is waiting for an event that will end all thinking it’s going to be a futile seeking.
@@Theroadneverending Interesting that it is difficult for some and obvious for others. It's a testament to how conditioned the mind is by secondhand thought - the kind of thought that makes you believe you are an individual self as opposed to the other, and that your perspective is one of a singular being looking out into a world in which you exist.
I really like the "Allah is near to a man than his own neck vein." I like that. It sort of gets up and behind. Can we bear this greatness? I like that too. When I met myself I was **** scared because he was a giant. How did I manage to loose him again, despite the fact that he is so big. I guess it is because he is so unbearably big but there are other reasons. I recommend "Shinkenja-" who draw a symbol spin in around and put it on their face.
I am into mirror reversal lately. It is an interesting area of research. Look up Yohtaro Takano. No great insights but thinking about the area of research may help. All in all... 1) I love this guy for his humility. He speaks the truth without seeming to want to profit from it at all. He is just telling it our it is. Wow. 2) He talks a lot about the mirror self but he also mentions "Douglas." The suicide is double. We take the mirror but we also take on "Douglas".
listening to intelligent humour stops me from being on my own. I have a younger friend with whom i share this essence. What we share is becoming who I am ,and I hope , who she is.
We grasp at external things thinking they will fill an expected void, that very specific certainty we have learned as the sense of attainment, a desideratum, an urge to fill the unfulfilled potential of the eternal now. We are taught to comply to the means of production, to contribute, to make good, yet we miss the mark continually, which is to say that progress and its aim has got a hold of us, our intention. We witness this deception at every turn and are shackled to reducing the mysteries and wonders of life to abstractions, we are taught that it is possible to define everything and attribute all things with our special identifications, reducing all to knowns. I say to this, that when one makes an attempt to understand and know the eternal now from such a perspective it is misguided. Indeed, the fleeting joys one experiences when we believe we have arrived are nothing more than an indication, the sensing of the mind that something good has come to pass based upon the stimuli we have set up as responders to our endeavours, a mere nibble at the forbidden fruit, a more complete sensing of the eternal now. There is no point in trying to understand it, no point at all in trying to figure it out - it simply is. Such attempts confound the mind as there is in actuality nothing to work out or understand. These exercises at best are an expression of intent, the wilful act of cultivating prescience without attachment to outcome, the will to create, the accord of an awoken state of consciousness - yielding and unfixed - of being completely and totally invested in ones day-to-day with all of ones being: physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally - an all at once, completely engaged experience of self centred in heart by simply being present through a breathing mind.
Wow, I've seen this before, and yet just now about 7 minutes in to it I realize that someone can forget that "the imaginary friend" Douglas refers to may not be who we are at all, but the "imaginary friend" that adults may teach children to reject may be much more basic than the personas with which we learn to identify as "not me" and "me."
That's a lion's roar , let you know who's the king of this body, mind and world, a call to discover, uncover, certainly it will be a blunder if I not feel that's it's the most urgent
How can anyone ever objectively know themselves? The suggestion implies the existence of two entities in every person: "the observer and the observed" but in the act of trying to observe yourself you only see what you think you are and not your actual self.
I like much of what Harding said. But there is quite a difference between discovering that you are not what you look like, to discovering that you are God.
Keith Mc Hi Keith, I completely hear what you are saying and what he is sharing is simply a pointer to the actual experience of being god. It may not hit everyone the same, but there are those of us that it hit so hard that you simply cannot deny it. It has happened with more than one in my family, including myself. Unfortunately all we can ever do is try to give pointers by sharing pointers to the truth. It can take years or 5 minutes to get it. But when it hits, you’ll never deny it, you can’t. It takes the experience and knowing of truth, reality and the now to the absolute. Words will always fail us here, but it’s the best we can do to share. ❤️
@Jammed9000 What does truth mean? It is a sequence of five letters. Show me something that is not true. Some may say "ah, but the phenomenal world of changing things is itself not true and only the eternal divine consciousness watching the temporary things is true." Fine! By "Divinity itself," I meant the inexpressible truth. All religions rest on it, arise from it, pointing to the light source with the line of their shadows.
The Koranic verse is: "But the Unbelievers,- their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts, which the man parched with thirst mistakes for water; until when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing: But he finds Allah (ever) with him, and Allah will pay him his account: and Allah is swift in taking account." Hm. Doesn't really seem to be what Douglas is saying!
It would have been much better, much more in line with universal truth HAD IT said what Douglas said! What Douglas said was beautiful. Sad that the Koran doesn't have this truth...
Yes because u need teachers to explain all the nonsense and make sure u interpret it the way they want u too.... God is not found trough masters teachers or books....they can point yes....but God can only be found inside
being on mushrooms, who's then the objective seer? If you are looking at yourself 'objectively', then what you see can't really be you because you are the one looking, right?
Unfortunately Douglas knew nothing at all of Jewish mysticism, and comes off as judgmental. There is incredibly rich and radical Non-dual / Nothingness / Essence teachings in Hasidic Kabbalah, especially the Habad (Chabad) lineage. But much of it is still not translated into English, and some of it takes a background in this spiritual tradition to understand the nuances,, so the ignorance is understandable.
“Who you really really reallly are is the Origin of this world NOT the Product of this World” , This is a radical change in perception! What great news!
I had the honor of meeting Douglas Harding about 13 years ago. The benefit of his humble and kind presence, however, has been everlasting.
I could have saved myself from years of self abuse had I heard Douglas Harding when I was young.
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Douglas Harding saved my life.
Really? How? I just found him and looks an amazing teacher.
When you listen to this your heart beats with recognition of something so intimate and true! Its so true that true words are piercing, they cut right into you. What an incredibly humble, loving, beautiful human being this man was!
What a great man. I just finished reading 'On Having No Head', a fantastic book which does a valiant job of describing much of the inexplicable things I have myself experienced. I was sad to hear that he passed away in 2007, but he did live till almost 100, which is probably a testament to his carefree attitude towards life. A true Zerocentric if ever there was one!
There is a bench situated in the beautiful gardens in "my" local park, and engraved upon it is this piece of writing: "l am immortal indeed, because l am always the first person, singular, present-tense 'l' and can never cease to exist, for l would have to be there - as that very existence - to know this apparent end".. This is dedicated to somebody or other who has passed on - apparently - as there are many benches in the park that have these loving short poems and dedications to the loved ones who have finished their karma here. l was just about gobsmacked (well, as gobsmacked as l can ever get these days), to see *real* wisdom in an otherwise beautiful yet spiritually vacant - materialistic - city of human beings.
"They say that I am dying, but I am not going away. Where could I go? I am here." - Ramana Maharshi.
First video I've seen by Harding. Read a few pages of No Head years and years ago, found it unintelligible, forgot it. This week I discovered the truth he discusses here and somehow remembered him. Glad I did! For me the discovery happened when it finally occurred to me to ask myself, "Who is the "myself" who's doing all this questioning about god, the meaning of life, how to live, etc.?" And I realized I'd been ignoring the real self while being buffeted by exterior realities, including my thoughts and emotions -- and they're not the self. I was miserable because I was ignorant of who I am: infinite love, an expression of God's own love.
That's what Harding is getting at, isn't it?
Why does he keep saying "even Judaism," as if it's unexpected that Jews would accept this insight? What Harding says is in fact the direct consequence of the Shema and revelation of the divine name to Moses; therefore it's central to Judaism. The god who is the Being-ness of all beings holds all creation in the embrace of his unity, and that embrace includes my "self." Any self other than that (e.g., an "objective" self) is an idol.
He says the Truth which is so simple yet so alien from our current states. So we laugh and snigger to handle this strange yet real truth. When the truth can be seen there is no silly uncomfortable laughter but real silence or real laughter.
I look, hear and I just feel love, I love you Douglas love you
" it takes a lot of humility to be as great as you are ", incredible.
He get the message across so clearly; I'm glad I took the time to watch this; it was a tonic.
What a wonderful wonderful man... brilliant with so much clarity.
Thanks so much for posting
This is a beautiful, beautiful talk! Thank you
He looks like Socrates
Then that's who he is ;-)
He doesn't have a face.
Humorous passionate presentation ... Visual treat to come back to his pointing again and again 🧡🙏🧡🙏🧡
What a beautiful being 🙏
Remarkable man.. highly recommend anyone to check out the ‘the man with no head’ the life and times of Douglas Harding. The format of the book really captures his message the best, and gave me a complete understanding of how he came to this insight!
entrancingly wonderful!!!
💕 thanks for this
Great human being. And loved him as a child when he did narration for The Grinch
Genius beyond his time way beyond his time
Yes, for sure.
or rather outside of his time,
isn't that what all the great thinkers have done, ripped of the temporary carpet of the culture and ways of perception that surrounded while they were alive, and clearly described the same 'wooden flooring' of truth that lies beneath 'the carpet' for new ears.
Amazing Voice. I would love to hear this man ordering a succulent Chinese meal. 😀
Thank you for uploading! thumbs up
Excellent!
Wonderful !
Amazing. I wish there was a lot more video footage!
you are simply consciousness, the soul, the observing witness.
you are not the ego.
This is upanishad
Not ao simple.
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Also, Thank you Headexhange! For broadcasting your treasures! ;^)
I’m not what I look like. I get it but now I keep bumping into myself 😂
Love these videos!
there should be 366 000 000 likes
wow that was great
It could easily be misinterpreted as "I am the creator of the world". All the 5 major religions are saying that "YOU are the creator of PERCEIVED world". You, the perciever and the world (percieved) appear simultaneously. Both are creation of thought and dissolves when thought comes to rest (mostly at death). There is a possibility of thought coming to rest while living...but the thought has momentum of 7 billion people on earth, each one assuming that 'you' exist in a 'their' percieved world.
In my experience it is not that thought comes to an end it is that the thought can just be free range not fenced in by the arising of the “l” thought. If one is waiting for an event that will end all thinking it’s going to be a futile seeking.
It's not a misperception. You are God.
You, The True You created The Entire Universe. This can be known.
The headless way just goes to show that there are many ways to find the ultimate Self and what lies beyond.
I just started. It’s hard
@@Theroadneverending Interesting that it is difficult for some and obvious for others. It's a testament to how conditioned the mind is by secondhand thought - the kind of thought that makes you believe you are an individual self as opposed to the other, and that your perspective is one of a singular being looking out into a world in which you exist.
@@Theroadneverending hard to formulate meaning, but easy to see your position as no face looking at faces.
@@FirstPersonHooddrop all meanings, drop totality of all thoughts and just see.. you are infinite seeing .. without seer or seen
странно что нет коментов по русски. но это стоит смотреть и не раз. спасибо всем
Brilliant
Genius!
Awesome
this must be his best talk
I have a feeling that all his talks were a treat to witness.
THIS IS PEACEFULL!!! =) and so funny! =D
I have no head! Oh, my. Harding was cool. What an accent.
In Thai, the word for 'happened' and 'born' are the same - 'gerd'.
that's beautiful- and wise!
Ermergerd!
Some talk about dirty words.
"You happened yourself" lol.. great!
I really like the "Allah is near to a man than his own neck vein." I like that. It sort of gets up and behind. Can we bear this greatness? I like that too. When I met myself I was **** scared because he was a giant. How did I manage to loose him again, despite the fact that he is so big. I guess it is because he is so unbearably big but there are other reasons.
I recommend "Shinkenja-" who draw a symbol spin in around and put it on their face.
Yes i know what i am it is the opposite of what i believe and look like..
I am into mirror reversal lately. It is an interesting area of research. Look up Yohtaro Takano. No great insights but thinking about the area of research may help.
All in all...
1) I love this guy for his humility. He speaks the truth without seeming to want to profit from it at all. He is just telling it our it is. Wow.
2) He talks a lot about the mirror self but he also mentions "Douglas." The suicide is double. We take the mirror but we also take on "Douglas".
listening to intelligent humour stops me from being on my own. I have a younger friend with whom i share this essence. What we share is becoming who I am ,and I hope , who she is.
Douglas looks like God.
He looks like a Greek Philosopher.
@vchikke2 Beautifully expressed, I feel the same way.
We grasp at external things thinking they will fill an expected void, that very specific certainty we have learned as the sense of attainment, a desideratum, an urge to fill the unfulfilled potential of the eternal now. We are taught to comply to the means of production, to contribute, to make good, yet we miss the mark continually, which is to say that progress and its aim has got a hold of us, our intention. We witness this deception at every turn and are shackled to reducing the mysteries and wonders of life to abstractions, we are taught that it is possible to define everything and attribute all things with our special identifications, reducing all to knowns. I say to this, that when one makes an attempt to understand and know the eternal now from such a perspective it is misguided. Indeed, the fleeting joys one experiences when we believe we have arrived are nothing more than an indication, the sensing of the mind that something good has come to pass based upon the stimuli we have set up as responders to our endeavours, a mere nibble at the forbidden fruit, a more complete sensing of the eternal now. There is no point in trying to understand it, no point at all in trying to figure it out - it simply is. Such attempts confound the mind as there is in actuality nothing to work out or understand. These exercises at best are an expression of intent, the wilful act of cultivating prescience without attachment to outcome, the will to create, the accord of an awoken state of consciousness - yielding and unfixed - of being completely and totally invested in ones day-to-day with all of ones being: physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally - an all at once, completely engaged experience of self centred in heart by simply being present through a breathing mind.
❤
Wow, I've seen this before, and yet just now about 7 minutes in to it I realize that someone can forget that "the imaginary friend" Douglas refers to may not be who we are at all, but the "imaginary friend" that adults may teach children to reject may be much more basic than the personas with which we learn to identify as "not me" and "me."
So simple so true. What is your face before you were born?
I have watched this video perhaps more times than any other on TH-cam. Can anybody recommend the best Douglas Harding book to read first?
On Having No Head
🙏🧡🙏🧡🙏
That's a lion's roar , let you know who's the king of this body, mind and world, a call to discover, uncover, certainly it will be a blunder if I not feel that's it's the most urgent
he could be wearing a suit or somethin formal but he's wearing a blue t-shirt... cool
Explore any religion, then religions, and then Divinity itself.
How can anyone ever objectively know themselves? The suggestion implies the existence of two entities in every person: "the observer and the observed" but in the act of trying to observe yourself you only see what you think you are and not your actual self.
The objective self is attempting to know the ACTUAL. Only problem is that the objective self is transient not ACTUAL.
Тат Твам Аси - То Ты еси )
he looks like god!
He who seeks God finds only Himself. He who seeks himself finds only God.
How did people get lost and think they are the man in the mirror?
people are transient.
have you ever had an experience that you did not witness? nothing is objective :)
Christabel, you obviously have no idea what Douglas was talking about. Please read his best book "On Having No Head."
I like much of what Harding said. But there is quite a difference between discovering that you are not what you look like, to discovering that you are God.
Keith Mc Hi Keith, I completely hear what you are saying and what he is sharing is simply a pointer to the actual experience of being god. It may not hit everyone the same, but there are those of us that it hit so hard that you simply cannot deny it. It has happened with more than one in my family, including myself. Unfortunately all we can ever do is try to give pointers by sharing pointers to the truth. It can take years or 5 minutes to get it. But when it hits, you’ll never deny it, you can’t. It takes the experience and knowing of truth, reality and the now to the absolute. Words will always fail us here, but it’s the best we can do to share. ❤️
GOD is a loaded word. Yourself is required for anyTHING to exist!! Name it your favorite sports hero if you like!!
Who is this guy, i've never heard of him.
read his book and his method :www.headless.org
@Jammed9000
What does truth mean? It is a sequence of five letters. Show me something that is not true. Some may say "ah, but the phenomenal world of changing things is itself not true and only the eternal divine consciousness watching the temporary things is true." Fine!
By "Divinity itself," I meant the inexpressible truth. All religions rest on it, arise from it, pointing to the light source
with the line of their shadows.
The Koranic verse is: "But the Unbelievers,- their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts, which the man parched with thirst mistakes for water; until when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing: But he finds Allah (ever) with him, and Allah will pay him his account: and Allah is swift in taking account." Hm. Doesn't really seem to be what Douglas is saying!
It would have been much better, much more in line with universal truth HAD IT said what Douglas said! What Douglas said was beautiful. Sad that the Koran doesn't have this truth...
JobyUrchin
Yes it does.. how many hours have you spent learning the Quran and with what sort of teachers?
@@momin4811 mighty self
The obvious is the truth.
Yes because u need teachers to explain all the nonsense and make sure u interpret it the way they want u too....
God is not found trough masters teachers or books....they can point yes....but God can only be found inside
being on mushrooms, who's then the objective seer? If you are looking at yourself 'objectively', then what you see can't really be you because you are the one looking, right?
Yes, but everything Seen is made of The Seer. There is no duality.
God with a capital G. Reality with a capital R.
How wonder---full to find an original thinker!
Unfortunately Douglas knew nothing at all of Jewish mysticism, and comes off as judgmental. There is incredibly rich and radical Non-dual / Nothingness / Essence teachings in Hasidic Kabbalah, especially the Habad (Chabad) lineage. But much of it is still not translated into English, and some of it takes a background in this spiritual tradition to understand the nuances,, so the ignorance is understandable.
Douglas expands on Judaism in his second version of Religions of the World, currently available on Kindle and in the future available as a paperback.
Surprise! Douglas Harding was well aware of Judaism and Kabbalah.
Q:Who was the medeival spanish rabbi he was quoting??I cant find it
He was a philosopher, numbnuts,,
He is not saying something to laugh at.
"How to speak for 12 minutes without saying anything meaningful."
This guy is basically the Professor Irwin Corey of spirituality. BWHAHAHA. Deeply silly person.
Nothing silly about it