Thank goodness someone finally can explain what enlightenment is to me.

@heavylit1760

3 жыл бұрын

Is that what this is...good.

I'm already seeing this is going to go over some of our heads because of it's simplicity. With this basic knowledge you can free yourself back into the open world which was yours to begin with.

@toddboothbee1361

4 жыл бұрын

"going to go over some of our heads"--good one!

I remember being 7 years old watching documentaries about the Big Bang with my father after asking him all kids of childish questions like “where do people come from?” And “why do people exist?”. After watching those films they just created more questions than answers. Creation and existence seemed so abstract and nonsensical when I really expect a simple straightforward answer. And then I began thinking, why are we conscious at all? Couldn’t something do everything a human does but be unconscious? Awareness itself seemed completely unnecessary yet here it was. Sometimes I pondered if I was the only one who was conscious at all. I thought clearly since reality is occurring right now, there must be a “source” or “generator” somewhere. And I would stare off into the distance for hours in search of just what the hell was looking out through my eyes, trying to find that solid source of reality. No matter how hard I searched, it just seemed like there was nothing or nobody, no subject or object, just perceptions and awareness “happening”, but no one doing it or having it done to them. My parents had me see a psychologist because they thought something was wrong with me. I tried to explain it as best as I could but with the vocabulary of a 7 year old and an abstract thought process that hadn’t yet developed into a “voice in the head” only nonsense came out. I was so frustrated, so shocked because to me it seemed so obvious the ideas I was trying to convey, yet nobody knew what I was talking about and they managed to convince me that neither did I. 12 years later I discover this video and all of these memories I’d forgotten about come right back. I really wonder if I’ll ever be able to access that weird trance state ever again. I heard meditation can help me get there. But this headless way stuff is deep.

@vvv2k12

3 жыл бұрын

try self enquiry

@ghostape

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting commentary..Have you listened to or watched Bernardo Kastrup? He talks about matter, reality, perception and idealism. Backs up what he says with solid evidence that will leave you thinking all night..This is such an exciting subject to work with but will have us going round in circles for sure!! Yeh, meditate..give rise to memories and meditate on them, see what happens. its all fascinating

@kitchfairman5043

4 ай бұрын

Keep exploring! It will definitely give you many more questions, with very few answers. But I'm pretty sure it's Why we are here/ conscious. Exploring our selves , our realm, and the perception of others.

"at the highest level of moral integration there is no boundary between you and the external world"

@fergusmtiernan4411

3 жыл бұрын

Is this Rollo may?

@genetix7173

3 жыл бұрын

@@fergusmtiernan4411 it's either Alan Watts or It could be from a Jordan Peterson lecture. I am not sure. I don't even remember writing this.

There's one Deity called " Chhinna Masta " . She has cut her head , held that severed head in one of her hand , a gush of blood flowing out from her torso . She is the depiction of tantric powers and she is favourite of many occult practitioners , this very notion has given bad names to this deity. From Advaita point of view , I think this is the best way to get rid of egoistic existence of persons. Strongest message , very eye opener.

@madhuridas4745

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. KALI IS SO POWERFUL. Thank you for your explaination

Beautiful Richard, thank you!

What a beautiful, simple explanation, thank you!

I tried it walking around town. When I looked down at my body, I felt like a headless zombie, when I looked up and around, I felt like lightbulb man! 😂

Beautiful stuff.

Remarkable synthesis of the Headless approach! Thank you Richard!

Excellent, thank you.

Awesome video.

The strange thing is that the scientific method typically conflicts with spirituality. However with this approach it uses the scientific method solipsistically in order to deconstruct relative identity.

@ivanvincent7534

2 жыл бұрын

It’s like we are the CPU of a computer. It never moves but is capable of processing all the worlds data.

@kitchfairman5043

4 ай бұрын

I have found most of academia to conflict with reality. As science is observing and comprehending. Not trusting a textbook. And maybe in some other countries this approach is applied. But all that I have ever learned I either observed or I took somebody's word for it. And it took me many years to realize we've all been deceived! From the Latin the word science means to know, And you don't really know something till you've experienced it. And then the interwebs came out and I could look at textbooks from the 1800s. Talk about a conflict! I really enjoyed your comment by the way.

a perfect hack to selflessness, mindfulness and presence.

@travisbickle8008

4 жыл бұрын

Loujo did it work ? I do I for a month already and sometimes I kinda get it but I still doubt coz of its simplicity

@csmith7404

4 жыл бұрын

@@travisbickle8008 Worked well enough eventually in my experience that I sat down once and crossed my right leg over the left and it felt like it was someone else controlling it and I was just an observer in a very high tower looking down at it, watching to see what it was doing. That of course is not a frequent experience, but I have had it.

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496

3 жыл бұрын

@@csmith7404 who is the “I” you said had the experience?

@ryebread7905

2 жыл бұрын

@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Awareness itself

@buddhabike

Жыл бұрын

@@travisbickle8008 If you can do it, you will know. It’s a shocking experience

Lovely

Great description of headlessness!

This is love

I've always looks myself and not accepted anything except my eyes looking at me. I thought it was disgust or disassociation with my form. I used to think that I was really an old person tricking myself into this body. This was always disturbing to me. Why couldn't I accept myself? This explains the core one that goes beyond form - again quite scary - what are the rules, what happens, why are there so many people and so many 'ones?'

I want to understand but he loses me when he says point to the looker, i point directly at my face, sure i can't see my face, but that doesn't mean it's not somehow there. Like when he says to point to your knee, well what if you were looking at the sky but pointed to your knee, you wouldn't say you are "knee-less", the knee just isn't in sight.

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

And low and behold, you created the sky just by looking up and your knee just by looking at it. You can make people disappear, too, just by turning around. Ha HA hA Ha.

The greatest life hack EVER!

@FirstPersonHood

3 жыл бұрын

I agree completely!

@juandinkerz4636

3 жыл бұрын

For who

@ryebread7905

2 жыл бұрын

@@juandinkerz4636 haha

I find the four stages and the headless way very intriguing and very helpful. These are definitely some new perspectives :) The experimental aspect is fun.

Heart Sutra

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

Right on. Thank You.

i've tried the pointing-finger-at-face exercise 1:57 , but I don't experience what he says. I can understand , since the pointing hand has no eyes, there's space from the point of view of the pointing hand.. Is that the concept he's trying to convey? Or, I can certainly 'imagine space' when I point the finger at my face, but then again, I can also imagine anything else I want, for that matter. How is this 'space' he mentions not something other than what you wish to visualize-imagine?

@-Boundless-

Жыл бұрын

What is the finger pointing at?

@ricp

Жыл бұрын

@@-Boundless- the finger is pointing at a human head/face

@-Boundless-

Жыл бұрын

@@ricp Based on present evidence here there seems to be a landscape with a hand in it pointing at nothing. It’s a pretty weird situation compared to the common interpretation of what’s happening.

@luciuslucianski4778

Жыл бұрын

@@-Boundless- nonsense. You can touch your face with that finger and it will stop at the start of your skull so there's a head and not nothing

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

"Based on present evidence" is key here. Not imagination, but present evidence.

It is a rather interesting "perspective" to hold and remind ourselves to question materialism to some degree....though it does strike me as somewhat wonky in terms of a practical. everyday functionality...I think that's always been an issue of mine with non-dual philosophy....it's like "Gee that's neat", but 99% of people don't operate like this, and we generally function without this default awareness for whatever reason....which begs the question why the hell aren't we "born" with this....? It's a bit of a cruel experience in a way that it's not just an easy experience to 'recognize our true nature."

@ForTheAges

4 жыл бұрын

@Tyler Whitney are you familiar with Rupert Spira? His articulation really grounds nonduality in my opinion. For instance, interpreting our 'ordinary' experience of beauty as the result of perception being traced back to its source by an object, where the apparent distinction between observer and the observed is dissolved. Similarly for the experience of love, happiness, truth. This sort of thing is actually happening for most, if not all of us, quite frequently.

@lisalawwill4843

3 жыл бұрын

We are born with it. New born babies have no concept of other. For them all is raw experience. It is socialized out of us in order that we may operate in the world. We get filled with dual language and concepts. The seperate me. We forget that no concept was original to us. When self realization comes we can operate knowing that the supposed separate me is only an activity not the entity that we thought it was. Life becomes lighter. Yes, I also recommend Rupert Spira.

@Milkshakman

2 жыл бұрын

Approaching your question with a thermodynamic lens has been helpful for me. The reason it’s not easily accessible by default is because we wouldn’t be here now if it was. The life process must take matter that is trending towards decay and package it together in a way that allows it to continue (to live). Concepts must be formed in order to navigate a social world, otherwise the life process would never have made it this far. Once they are formed, however, it seems like a natural next step that the system learn how to willfully drop them.

@buddhabike

Жыл бұрын

@@Milkshakman I think this is a good answer. It gives you instant perspective on the validity of your concepts and can be helpful to remind you or your true self.

I am space for the world, is that what he said, what does it mean?

@10010x0x0x01101XX0X1

4 жыл бұрын

he means that, most of us are walking around convinced of a story we tell ourselves about who we are. thoughts enter your mind and you identity with the thought as if there is a "you" that is thinking them. he's trying to get you to see a subtle shift. When a thought arises in your mind, look for where the thought came from. are you the one thinking, or are you the consciousness (or the space) that is simply experiencing the thought arrive. How could you think a thought, before you think to have wanted to think it. thoughts, thought objects, and desires arise and fall away. you are the space for the world itself to be having that experience of being you. to be cheesy about it, you are the the universe, looking at itself, while pretending to not be the universe. you're pretending to be Eric Lim, human earthling, with a job, and a story. You are just one more eye of the one universe, looking out at itself.

@10010x0x0x01101XX0X1

4 жыл бұрын

​@Will Harris think about this mental experiment for a bit: imagine that we are in the year 2090. medical science has perfectly mastered the art, where you can be cut in half, then using stem cells, the missing halves could be regrown. so there is now two exact replicas of you. both brains would be exactly the same. the two brains would be programmed to have the exact same memories. which one of the two perfect clones of you, would be "you"? which one would be the "you" having the experience of having the universe being reflected back to them?

@auggied6760

3 жыл бұрын

Reality is within you as the capacity to behold it. All that exists is within this capacity of seeing without a seer, of experiencing life without holding the position that you are the experiencer.

this reminds me of Keegans concept of trans-formative consciousness

I've been researching these subjects for a while. We can say "no face", we can say we have no ability to see the universe as it really is, we can say many things. My questions is: What is the structure, the thing that holds the memory/thought/belief system complex you think is You? Is it soul? Does soul have memory? Are we a progression of memories held non-locally upon we which we base our reality? The universe is made of Consciousness and we are Conscious agents within that...

@auggied6760

3 жыл бұрын

What holds the memory and thoughts? It is consciousness. Consciousness fixates on certain thoughts and not others. It holds close and identifies with thoughts that reinforce the sense of self that the mind has been conditioned to believe comprises a sense of "me."

TKY

Diamond Sutra

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

Right on, again.

There's one headless deity in Hinduism called " Skund Mata" . Here the pronounciation of D in Skund is not the way you speak D , it's D like hindi or French . It's depicted in the photo of this deity that it has cut its own head , and the top face is caught in one of her hand , another hand down side has a pot collecting the blood that's pouring down. It's a 4 handed deity , depiction of controlling or having access to all four Directions. Or sort of Omnipotent Omniscient thing.

the eye can see things but it can not see itself.think about it.

You only can experience headlessness right in the moment, can you? So is it another way of being in the now, and not thinking? (about past, future)... Like questioning myself: Where am I? There's no one that answers... But I believe I do not understand the headlessness way yet.

@shaquilleoatmeal3703

4 жыл бұрын

The only way for that particular feeling is meditation. Mindfull meditation

@auggied6760

3 жыл бұрын

There is much more to enlightenment than this. People take ideas and make much of them. I would recommend Jiddu Krishnamurti for a full exploration of the center of what you are. Headlessness is a metaphorical demonstration that you are the capacity for everything rather than a person within the scenery. It is also a metaphor about images. You are born not to see your own head and therefore you are without an image of yourself until you are inculcated/conditioned to believe that you have an image. Harding's work is direct and unique, but it takes an enquiry into your own nature to realize that you are the capacity and not the object of an imaginary seer.

@vedremo9240

3 жыл бұрын

@@auggied6760 yes there is much more

This sounds interesting but I'm not sure how truly transformative it is. For one thing, I don't know if he's just using this as a metaphor or not but babies and children are wonderfully open but not obviously not enlightened. We also appear to be born with conditioning as well as learning it.

@kwixotic

8 жыл бұрын

+valinor100 What conditioning could we possibly be born with? The process of acquiring the "headless state" or the state of emptiness as shown here aims at deconditioning which accumulates progressively AFTER birth and moreso in the subsequent years of our lives.

@squamish4244

8 жыл бұрын

kwixotic Babies are born with the conditioning of millions of years of evolution hard-wired into our genes. There's also a lot of evidence that babies are influenced by their mother's experiences while they are in the womb, and also inherit epigenetic changes from their family histories - i.e. experiences their parents and grandparents had can cause genetic changes that can predispose them towards developing various issues in their lives. Also, if you buy into it, as all the Eastern spiritual traditions do, they are also born with the accumulated karma of past lives. That's a shitload of conditioning. Consider mental disorders like OCD, schizophrenia, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, etc. All of these have environmental influences, but all have genetic influences too. Neuroscientists estimate that the structural changes in the brain that lead to mental disorders begin as long as a decade prior to the appearance of symptoms. Most serious mental disorders manifest when people are anywhere from young adolescents to young adults. That means changes began when they may have been as young as 1 or 2 years old. It is very doubtful that environmental conditioning could so rapidly account for such severe clinical issues. Consider especially OCD. OCD almost exclusively develops in young people. If you don't have it by the age of 25, you are very unlikely to ever get it. There's something powerful going on there that is not environmentally induced, otherwise, why would the chance of developing it drop to almost zero after a certain age, regardless of what happens to you for the rest of your life? Mental disorders count as 'conditioning' too - they are the product of delusion, they cause tremendous suffering, they need to be purified or rooted out - they are just as much conditioning as whatever this man is referring to.

@UrbanBodhi

6 жыл бұрын

It's simply this. The mask of your ego, the mental character you use to interact with others weighs on your mind for as long as you believe it's inherently you. It's the openness of a baby combined with the development of the adult that constitutes enlightenment. Ideally you maintain the openness and as you develop your character into a well balanced adult. But if you lose touch with the openness all your identity has to depend on is that mental character which is a lot of pressure and expectation riding on a misconception of what you actually are which doesn't really have an identity that can be conceptualized or pinpointed though it can be directly known/felt/experienced. Due to the misconception arise the stories and fears that involve self-esteem, self-consciousness, anxieties and worries spun out by the character. Our society inadvertently feeds and glorifies the focus on the ego and it creates the myriad social problems we see today that are a result of being removed from the wisdom of knowing ourselves as interdependent. Actors take on many different roles, they embody those characters, but everyone has a character they don't remember putting on and don't realize how fulfilling it can be to take off and learn to operate independently from. This is literally the root of suffering. Upon recognizing your true identity you unwind your inner knots and tensions over a period of months to years depending on the amount of glitches one's ego accrued and find yourself as a psychologically healthy individual who is also aware of itself as the whole. Being freely able to align the values of the greater community they are inseparable from with their own values while developing their unique expression and perspective to further the collective project of refining ourselves. It's just good sense to make sure one has developed a thorough understanding of their own internal world which is the foundation of all our future perceptions yet public education for it is severely lacking.

When I point to my face all I see is the tip of my finger.

@razzle_dazzle

4 жыл бұрын

Try to focus on what you are pointing at, rather than the finger itself. And don't think of it as pointing at your face, but pointing at your self. Most people feel that their self is inside their head, looking out from behind the eyes, but just point to wherever exactly you feel your self is, and try to focus on what the finger is pointing at. It's a relatively simple way to trigger the realization that the self doesn't actually consist of anything - it's an illusion.

@lisalawwill4843

3 жыл бұрын

You see the tip of your finger plus the room where you are sitting as being 'out there'. What you discover is that there is no 'out there'. There is no dividing line between what you are and the appearances. You are That.

@dougs2533

3 жыл бұрын

@@razzle_dazzle I feel like I’m half way there after your comment. The self is an illusion- now what do I do with that?

@aTribeCalledCasey

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougs2533 self help is crucial to teach you there is no self to help

But what is the deep understanding here ? When my head hurts, I know I ave a head, when i touch it I know I have a head..

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

The story is, you feel sensations in the area where you had a head. Similarly, you don't have a nose, but two (pink, brown or black) structures that go from bottom to top. Not a head or nose at all, just sensations.

@Simon-xi8tb

Жыл бұрын

@@1rocknroy Well in that sense I don't have a body either. Just sensation. Just experience. Just my mind, my inner life. So this is basically just idealism ? So there is nothing that is physical in the sense that normal humans refer to physical things.

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

@@Simon-xi8tb Good way to put it. It's all in the mind. Even Christian Science says that matter is mortal mind or error. The floor under my feet is not a physical thing. It is the IDEA of a physical floor. Wow

when i point to my face i see my nose

@israelgonzalez8703

8 жыл бұрын

the one who is the nose knows the nose. when he knows the nose knows as well. he knows the nose is the nose and he knows he is the nose.

@Ericcmac

7 жыл бұрын

look for the origin of the nose, where does it emerge from? Try not to conceptualize - just go by what you see. Good luck.

@ernestweber5207

7 жыл бұрын

Those may just be two, pink clouds, depending on your skin color. The sky has clouds, right? ;)

@jamesgreenldn

6 жыл бұрын

I see a hand pointing at nothing

@sarahvesela677

6 жыл бұрын

in fact if you describe what you call a nose and seems to see when the finger points towards your open sopace, nobody would recognise it is the nose we normally see from outside... You see something and presime it is the nose...

There's no such thing as a protagonist, to be one you must interact in a single time-frame of consciousness to unify both as space and being and become one, as space. So accept the void that creates spaces i am only a attribute of my creators a single offspring who tries to reach tirelessly arguments to whom i call persona, must be stable and coherent attached to a name and identity, when you know all of that, you can dissolve these concepts and start a new chapter.

4:38 Suddenly changes from a bunch of BS to ... whoa.

if you touch your nose, ears, lips, mouth with your finger you'll 'see' your face!!!

@FirstPersonHood

3 жыл бұрын

No

@FirstPersonHood

3 жыл бұрын

You feel your face. We are positioned no face to face, visually. Every human will form various meanings from this often overlooked fact.

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

If you touch your nose, ears, lips, mouth with your finger you'll feel sensations in the area other people call your face.

We are Da Brainless One

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

I think so. Life works real good that way.

Why is it that the non dual crowd always have something to sell

Shaving must be awkward.

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

Yes that's why you just shave that guy's in your bathroom mirror.

Folks binge watch Christian pentecostal exorcisms ( Isaiah saldivar is a start) . And try to frame up what the heck that is. .

This seems more of a mind hack than reality. I have a head. I can see it in a mirror. I can see my nose when I look out. I can’t convince myself I don’t have a head.

@FriedZime

4 жыл бұрын

You're right. You do have a head. From mine and everyone elses perspective. But from your point of view, you can see the whole world, except your head. Yes, you can see your head in the mirror, but that is out in the world, not in your center where everything appears. This is pretty new to me, so maybe I'm not explaining very good. But I find it really fascinating.

@thomasgrant723

4 жыл бұрын

@@FriedZime that was a brilliant explanation well done Simon

@FriedZime

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomasgrant723 oh you think? :) Thank you so much.

@vijayrachakonda8411

4 жыл бұрын

When you look from where you are looking out of, is there anything there? Or is there just the world? I like to close my eyes and inquire as well. How far is the darkness from "me"? How far is the shapes and colors from where "I" am? Regarding the nose, there are a couple of approaches. You could ask, "what is my nose attached to?" Or, you could notice that your nose has a shape and color and then you could ask, "Is what I am seeing out of have a shape and color, or is it transparent and empty?" Notice the contrast between the definite shape and color of the nose and the emptiness of the space you are looking from. Here is the headless website with an article on your question about the nose: www.headless.org/experiments/seeing-your-nose.htm :)

@vedremo9240

3 жыл бұрын

Lol you didn t get at all what he says. The body has a head but who sees it? You ll never see yourself because you are always the one that sees. Trying to see yourself is like trying to see the head with your eyes. It s a pointing / metaphor

I'm interested in the statement that you learn your gender and then you learn, via external influence, that you should stay in a "box" which is a defined set of mental traits that align with your sex. It supports the notion that if we are nothing, gender is little more than a social construct.

use a mirror and then you can see your own face.!!

@Aaron_Gentry

3 жыл бұрын

But in what does the mirror and the reflection within the mirror appear? Within consciousness

@FirstPersonHood

3 жыл бұрын

No

@Primeaux182

3 жыл бұрын

I asked myself the same first. After some reflection I would say that what I see is from a third person perspective. The image in the mirror is not me but an object again. Like the floor, the wall, the door, etc. So in the mirror I see my face as an object. But what is looking is me, the headless me. From within, from the nothingness. Even though it really feels strange and the identification with our body and our face is so common and natural.

@indrabali5269

3 жыл бұрын

He is talking about direct experience/perceiving.. mirror is not..

@nmh1120

3 жыл бұрын

that's not your face. that's a mirror and a reflection of your face. it's not your actual face.

I know you see your fucking nose, And your cheek bones and your eyebrows and your top lip. This is ridiculous. Literally talking about nothing. I drew a picture of this perspective, and found this analogy while looking for Inspiration. I'll say be careful of what you meditate on. This seems like hypnosis.

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

Yes, " Literally talking about nothing." Nothing is CAPACITY for the world.

Of course I can see my own face! I'm watching this video on my iPad laying in bed and as I'm looking down at the screen I can see both my nose and my upper lip. Likewise, when I look up I can see my eyebrows. I can also see my tongue when it's sticking out. I mean, I get what he's trying to say and do, but it's a really dumbed down and ignorant way of explaining nonduality. The world and "our" bodies seem to be real; and bodies have a head.

@awakenthedrummer6452

4 жыл бұрын

It's experiential though. Not an explanation to the mind. But you get it, you can tell by your comment. You're paying attention to your own perspective, how you experience yourself, not how the other does

@1rocknroy

Жыл бұрын

And yet, when you confront or be with the world or others, are you aware of any nose or upper lip projection? When confronting the world do you see your eyebrows or tongue? I think you just see the world openly just as he says.