Seeing Who You Really Are by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-02-20T23:00:00+00:00

Attend to Who you really are, anywhere, anytime…

Do an experiment from time to time.

Washing up, see who is washing up.

When talking with a friend, hear your two voices in the one Silence.

PART II

Articles, Correspondence and Interviews

ARTICLES

The Bomb

Alain Bayod

I have certainly nothing very special to say about Seeing but I would not wish to miss the opportunity offered to me by Richard Lang to manifest my huge gratitude to Douglas.

I am French, 49 years old, and I have been practising yoga since my teens and studying advaita vedanta for the last twenty years. Of course, it has gradually made big changes in my life but I have felt for several years that I was at a dead-end, stuck in the rut of my ego. In spite of long and accurate psychological work on the unconscious I was in search of a key.

My meeting with Douglas and Catherine Harding was for me a sort of fairy tale. Though the book On Having No Head was on my shelves for ten years, it was impossible for me to read it. The picture on the cover looked very bizarre and the text quite obscure. Three years ago a friend of mine published a book on ‘the new sages of the West’. The last chapter was on Douglas Harding and I was not really interested. I thought, of course very superficially, that the teaching of this Englishman was not at all traditional. Moreover it looks weird. And above all he never had a real-life guru. It was not for me.

But a few months just after that premature judgement another friend who already knew Douglas and enjoyed Seeing suggested that I invite Douglas and Catherine to Ardenne, the spiritual centre in the south-west of France where I have lived and worked since 1982.

I do not know why, but strangely I accepted immediately, although without enthusiasm. The workshop was fixed for the 1st of November. It was 1993. When I welcomed Douglas at Bordeaux station and therefore met him for the first time, a kind of alchemy occurred. He moved me in a very positive way and I thought: ‘Although his teaching has no interest for me, it is really worthwhile to meet such a lovely octogenarian.’

About forty of my pupils were there and the workshop started. Instead of my reticence, I decided to play the game openly. But I did not expect any result, and I now realise that it was perhaps the best attitude with which to start the ‘No-face game’. A vacant mind, no desires, no expectations. As the Zen man said, ‘the beginner’s mind’. At the end of the first day, after the pointing and the third-eye experiments, I had not yet got the point. But something was moving and I felt that I was on the verge of a great discovery. During dinner, with a smile, Douglas told me, ‘Tomorrow I will put a bomb in Ardenne’, and indeed it was so.

I think I shall never forget that morning. Of course, the bomb was the paper tube, the most powerful deconditioning device actually in existence.

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