Re: Marilyn/approaching Reality

12-15-1999, 05:29 AM

At 09:19 AM 12/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Marilyn Vitale"
>
>Hello Dan...
> your enjoinder to Antoine reminds me of Douglas Harding's Headless
>Way...are you familiar with his teachings?

D: Only superficially.

> For those may not be, Mr. Harding teaches a very accessible approach to
>discovering who we Really Are,

D: A view about approaching Reality:
There is no approach to That which is never absent. There is no
"other" to provide access. Discovery is simply realizing that
conceptual processes tend to take awareness into dream-realities.
Teachings may be useful, and Mr. Harding's may have proven useful
in some situations. However, there is a point which no teaching
can present, because that point is itself "presentness" and
is not "containable" in a conceptual teaching.

>with specific exercises that are, I think,
>very accessible to the Western mind.

D: As any specific exercise is aimed at a particular goal, no exercise
can give Reality as Reality - which is simultaneously all origins, all
paths, and all goals, with no division.