The Experience and the Meaning
Douglas Harding writes: “Three words cover it — seeing our No-thing-ness. It’s that simple. Or, to drive the point home, turning our attention round 180° and looking into What we are looking out of, into our Absence, our Void Nature or Emptiness or Speckless Clarity, into our lack of characteristics, distinguishing marks, attainments, you-name-it.
It’s not — emphatically not — knowing all about Natureless Nature, or understanding it profoundly, or believing in it sincerely, or even feeling it acutely, but seeing it with such finality and such intimacy that we see this Absence which we are and are this Absence which we see. But alas, how liable even the most apt words are to complicate what is, after all, simplicity itself!
The awkward fact is that this Experience, which is none other than the substratum of all experience, is impossible to describe. It’s as ineffable and incommunicable as the redness of red or the sweetness of honey or the smell of wild violets. Try telling a man colour-blind from birth what purple is. Well, telling him about his Empty Core is even more futile.
Somehow you must get him to look in for himself at himself by himself instead of just out at you. Then and only then nothing could be easier or plainer, more blazingly self-evident to him, than his Nothingness, his disappearance in your favour.”
Intrigued? You can read more by Douglas on The Experience and the Meaning, HERE
BTW, you might like to see or page on Who is the Experiencer? by Tolle.
AND, Hagai Avisor recommends Daniel Kahneman on: The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self.
