Douglas Harding: Inside Information

August 31, 2010 – 3:54 pm

I am what I look like. These six little words are big enough to cover the whole reason for our plight. They say it all. Or, to elaborate somewhat: I am here, for myself, what I look like over there, to you – as if our distance made no difference! On this morass you and [...]

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Douglas Harding: Your Natural State

August 15, 2010 – 1:27 am

This business of having seen It first in the Himalayas is formalistic nonsense. (I was writing this for The Saturday Evening Post and its millions of readers.) The mark of people who really see Who they are here is that when they see it they say, Gosh, of course, I know this, [...]

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Douglas Harding: A Good Bargain

July 12, 2010 – 12:40 am

This is a very good bargain.  Trading one tiny thing in the universe for the whole darn lot. It’s so profitable! To exchange this one mortal non OK thing for the whole world. (Douglas Harding. On Having No Head. DVD.)

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Douglas Harding: Letting Go

July 10, 2010 – 1:27 am

If already I embrace and contain the world, why should I go on clutching at these insignificant little bits of it – these possessions which possess me rather than I them – so frantically? (Douglas Harding.)

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Individual vs. Individuality

July 4, 2010 – 7:42 pm

The vichara that I practice stems from ancient Advaita Vedanta thought. Advaita means “non-dual” and it is the end realization of the mystic vision.  Vedanta is a Hindu tradition that means, “the end result of studying the Vedas”, the mystical writings which form much of the basis for the Hindu religion and philosophy.  Vedanta by [...]

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