We don't have a head | Richard Lang
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Richard Lang puts forward his radical philosophy about living without a head.
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While hiking in the Himalayas, philosopher of mind Douglas Harding suddenly realised that he had no head. "This is not a literary gambit" he writes, "I mean it in all seriousness: I have no head." The most prominent living proponent of 'The Headless Way', Richard Lang, through a range of thought experiments offers a path for you to realise you've not got one too.
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Richard Lang is an 'enlightened mystic' and teacher of spirituality. He is also the author of "The Man with No Head: The Life and Ideas of Douglas Harding", where he gives us insight into who this great man was and what he discovered.
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I suggest that anyone would find it worthwhile to read the original essay by D. E. Harding, "On Having No Head". A really great, thought-provoking read. Enjoy.
Thankyou. At last, an explanation in an easily understood format.
Brilliant pointing (literally and figuratively).
That loud background music is annoying and distracting to the message.
if you are distracted by some slight music then meditations and spirituality probably you aren't doing it right 😂
It seems crazy but once you practice, there's an undeniable truth to your subjective point of view. If you look out, you cannot see your head; all you can see is the world and everything that constitutes your world is filtered through this no-head experience. Once you see this, it can be very liberating because the sense of being implicated as a singular self can fade, or loosen at the very least.
I think that for those of you that are put off by this perspective (although I think it’s a very deep insight into our nature) you should try Connieray Andreas teaching of "wholeness" (she also has the "centering" practice and she has an NLP background-I’m not talking about those things). It’s a different way of pointing to the same thing but it’s much more gentle. I frankly was very disoriented and was left with a nasty state after reading about "The headless way", it conflicted too much with my experience and my personal esthetic. Both ways of pointing are great and would work great together, but for people that don’t have a background of eastern philosophy, that don’t know about the "indirect realism" take in western philosophy & science, they can suffer a shock in encountering these things that can lead to a breakdown of their worldview (or at least a cognitive dissonance) and this will manifest as depression, existential despair, nihilistic bouts. It’s not permanent but it can last for years and it’s nasty. People in buddhist circles call it the "dark night of the soul" which comes from the christian contemplative tradition. Simply put, your mind is confronted with a new way of relating with reality and with itself, and accommodating this means a lot of braking, rebuilding & rearranging. The minds of some people cannot adapt to it and instead they oppose it, they start an inner battle, and this is particularly bad because subjectively if feels like hell.
I actually found NLP to be a nasty and unpleasant experience, in which I felt I was being psychologically stripped down and scanned - resulting in a total destruction of self and ego. it took me decades to get over doing a 3 week NLP course. Once I found the headless way, I found peace and happiness, and at last was able to forget about the NLP.
@@julianvenablesastrologer4710 yeah different inner architectures go well together with different frames & techniques
This would make sense if you spoke about identity in terms of consumerism and materialism .
greetings, I learned that the first dan tien is slightly below the navel and inside the body, the second in the heart, the third in the head, I want to know why there is no mention of dantien -"hara?", like the first dantien, but also the description of the connection with the microcosmic orbit confused,
Spiritual beings having a human experience. It can be getting, but at first, quite disconcerting. Is this "release" identifiable as a way to resume the non-suffering condition the Buddha claims humans can possess? Is this having the wonderful view Christ referred to as being with "a single eye" view on life?
The observer lives and dies from moment to moment. A moment of observation in the mind/Citta has a minimum of 7 qualities/activities called 'fair for all the minds'. Those minimum 7 simultaneous activities are as follows:
1.) Touch, Collision (Passa)
2.) Feeling, Intensity (Vedana)
3.) Signal, Reminder (Sangna)
4.) Intention, Action (Chethana)
5.) One-pointedness, Concentration (Ekaggatha)
6.) Vitality, Life Faculty/Density (Jivitindriya)
7.) Mental Advertence, Remembering (Manasikara)
Likely, the mind/Citta doesn't require an external soul to remind the previous activity of the consciousness/Citta.
4:30 you are the communication of brain cells, you are not an atom, you are multiple molecules reacting with each other, you are the brain, why do so many people struggle to understand this?
There is no "you" though, no self. There is just consciousness and its contents.
Someone told you that. But what is your direct experince?
@@martingarreis no, noone told me, people told me there were souls and god and all that nonsense, I had to figure all this out myself when I was 15 years old
because it's incorrect
Doesn't actually say much about identity though... a bit of a deconstructionist insight that leads to a philisophical dead end
This video makes more sense when you are tripping on acid. But seriously, I think his point is in trying to develop a better appreciation of how ideas about our 'self' and others are made in the first place. How much of our own self conception is shaped negotiated with the outside world.
This is about the illusory nature of the self. Look up non duality
Curse this video for the way it ends. Be ashamed of yourself.
Look in the mirror 🪞 😊
When you cheat on your CV and get to do a TED talk
Maybe someone should introduce him to a mirror....
Douglas Harding has an entire chapter on the mirror. His book is a short read but packs a punch.
i think you're missing the point
@@superspinmove No, I am not stupid.
I just think this idea is not as profound as it is presented here.
@@edzejandehaan9265 Seeing that there is in-fact no "self" at the center of conscious experience and that there is only the infinite, luminous, void nature of mind is pretty profound imo... it's the truth that every spiritual tradition on the planet aims at teaching their adherents about
@superspinmove Yep, that is exactly the reason I am not impressed with this video.
nothing radical about this
its a\only radical becasue of conditioning
@@dropat5127 Yeah I'm definitely conditioned to think I have a head! 🤔😝🤣
@@stacielivinthedream8510 and there you go!
@@dropat5127 🤣🤣🤣
HEADLESS is pointing to SINGULARITY.