An often heard theme in the spiritual search is that our true nature is the simplest thing to discover, it is always present, is right under our noses, and we simply need to see. Douglas Harding brings this ancient admonition to life through a simple, practical set of experiments that anyone can do at any time
Douglas Harding passed away on January 11, 2007. He was a remarkably sincere, gracious man whose sole interest was helping people help themselves to Reality, Satori, their true Self, the Absolute, Enlightenment, God, Everythingness and Nothingness, Nirvana, or whatever you want to call your true nature. Douglas Harding called it Headlessness. Harding's simple experiments allow one to literally see that they are an empty Awareness that simultaneously contains, and is, everything.
This is all lot of empty talk unless you do the experiments. I read Harding's On Having No Head years ago, but didn't do the experiments and missed the point. It required attending a Headless Way workshop before I literally saw the reality of Douglas' words.
I suspect Douglas Harding's simple experiments are a revolutionary technique for approaching
the perennial search for truth. The implications are stunning, if we can accept them instead of making them another part of our experience. Go to the Headless Way webpage, do the experiments, and attend a Headless
Way workshop if at all possible. It is vital you
do the experiments honestly. Don't think about what you ought to see, or rely on memory: be attentive. I also recommend Look for Yourself: the Science and Art of Self-Realization
which is a collection of essays by Harding that lend insight into his philosophy and
personality.
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To try some of Harding's experiments, read his writings, and more, visit:
http://www.headless.org
To listen to Douglas online, visit:
http://www.audiodharma.org/DouglassHarding.htm
To try a Harding-type experiment that I devised:
http://www.spiritualteachers.org/harding_experiment.htm