Nisargadatta Maharaj when asked, " when you look at me what do you see"? said, " I see you imagining yourself to be"! There is no doubt that he's meaning to say the same what Douglas Harding is pointing at" our no face from our own point of view "!!
I very much appreciate this teaching. At the same time my mind raises insistently the following objections: I can in fact see pieces of my head when I am looking out. I see my nose, the blurry outline of my fat cheeks and my eyebrow ridge. Also, I can reach up and confirm that my head or something round and dented Like a head is in fact there. Similarly, my "bottom line" isn't in fact my shirt second to top button but the blurry stuff at the edges of my human window. A skeptic might say "I scratch my heqd; thus I refute headlessness!" Why isn't that correct?
Notice everything you refute is assumed or imagined. If you didn't have a "thought" attached to let's say "this blurry thing is my nose. How would you know it's a nose? And how would you know what it's attached to unless you used memory to remember a face you saw in the mirror at one time. The whole idea is to look at your raw experience without imagining what's there.....simply notice...."do you actually see a face that you're looking out of or are you imagining it"? The hint is....most see, when peeling the thoughts and imagination away, the experience of looking out of nothing but pure space and openness. So simple yet it's our true nature. At that moment you are no longer a "thing" but now know what it means to be space for the world. Don't believe me or even Richard, look for yourself and go off present evidence. ;-)
Very nicely done interview :)
Thank you for this beautiful interview.
Wonderful conversation!
Very good interview...simply presented...loved the airplane sounds to bring home 'silence' as ever present. thank you
wonderful interview
Nisargadatta Maharaj when asked, " when you look at me what do you see"? said, " I see you imagining yourself to be"! There is no doubt that he's meaning to say the same what Douglas Harding is pointing at" our no face from our own point of view "!!
I very much appreciate this teaching. At the same time my mind raises insistently the following objections: I can in fact see pieces of my head when I am looking out. I see my nose, the blurry outline of my fat cheeks and my eyebrow ridge. Also, I can reach up and confirm that my head or something round and dented Like a head is in fact there. Similarly, my "bottom line" isn't in fact my shirt second to top button but the blurry stuff at the edges of my human window. A skeptic might say "I scratch my heqd; thus I refute headlessness!" Why isn't that correct?
Notice everything you refute is assumed or imagined. If you didn't have a "thought" attached to let's say "this blurry thing is my nose. How would you know it's a nose?
And how would you know what it's attached to unless you used memory to remember a face you saw in the mirror at one time.
The whole idea is to look at your raw experience without imagining what's there.....simply notice...."do you actually see a face that you're looking out of or are you imagining it"?
The hint is....most see, when peeling the thoughts and imagination away, the experience of looking out of nothing but pure space and openness.
So simple yet it's our true nature.
At that moment you are no longer a "thing" but now know what it means to be space for the world.
Don't believe me or even Richard, look for yourself and go off present evidence.
;-)
Johnny Little Ñice :-) What we are is the most simple and most mysterious NO-thing at the same time.
If I'm "headless" is this why people talking in groups ignore me?
shana - join us in a video hangout and share your view there. Info on our website.
A reminder that we all are, by birthright, already enlightened. Just look! 😇
So if I look at a cat , my "true" face is the cat looking back at me?
shana schwartz The cat is one of your many faces ;-)