douglas harding

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" ...in a 1996 interview in The Noumenon Journal:

 

Now you talk about stopping thinking. Well, I've read all the

books about Ramana -- I've never met him -- and I think he says a lot

of things -- some of which don't mean much to me, it seems to be more

part of that culture -- but one of the things he does say in places is

that you don't have to do anything to see who you really are, you

don't have to stop thinking to see who you really, really are. It is

obvious, there is nothing more obvious in the whole world. I say that

too. It's absolutely obvious, and you say, well does that stop your

thinking, Douglas? Well, not really, because it's perfectly compatible

with seeing here the one who is supposedly the thinker. The thinker

goes along perfectly well with the realisation of the identity of the

one here who's alleged to be thinking, but there is a sense -- and a

very, very important sense -- in which seeing who I am does involve

cessation of thought, because when we think about a thing we are

making it an object. It is there, the thinker and the object thought

about, and I am not that. The thinker and the thought are two, but

this vision of who I really, really, really am is not thought, it is

directly experienced. So here there's no thinking. Seeing who I

really, really am is not thinking, it's not a conceptual experience,

it's more like a percept -- but an absolutely direct experience of

what's here. "

 

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The first time we ever 'See' ourselves.....

 

A moment of glory....