Finger pointing

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EXPERIMENT 1

 

"Point at the wall ahead....See how solid and opaque it is...Now slowly

bring your finger down until it is pointing at the floor...Still you are

pointing at the floor..Still you are pointing at a something, a

surface...Next, bring your hand around and point at your feet...your

legs...your trunk...your chest...Also somethings, also surfaces...Finally,

point to what is above your chest...to your neck...your face...your

eyes,,,Or rather, to the place where people told you those things are to be

found...

 

YOU ARE NOW POINTING AT NO SURFACE, AT NO THING AT ALL...

 

Check that it is featureless...colorless...

transparent...boundless...Keep on pointing, seeing into emptiness...seeing

how wide...how deep...how high...is this no-thing that is your side of that

in-pointing finger...

 

And see how, just because it is so empty of everything, it is empty for

everything. See how full it is of the whole colorful and changing scene -

of the celing, the walls, the window and the view from it, the floor, those

legs and that trunk and that pointing finger itself. See how the no-thing

that you are *is* all the things that are on show.

 

Have you ever been anything other than this NO-THING/ALL THINGS, this

perfect union of stress-free exclusiveness and stess-free inclusiveness?

Right now you can see that there is nothing inside you, that you have

nothing of your own, on your side of the pointing finger, to be stressed, to

be got at. Equally you can see that this nothing, this emptiness of yours,

has no limits upwards, or sideways, or downwards, no boundary beyond which

an outsider could lurk, to bring pressure to bear on you. On both sides you

are ride of stress forever - because you-the real You that is

no-thing/all-things -were never capable of it. Congratulations!"

 

Head Off Stress- D.E.Harding.

 

Harding tells stories of doing these exercises with children. "One child,

warming up to the proposition that at the centre of one's life there isn't

one living thing but the Source of all living things came out with: "Yes,

and it doesn't make you proud, either!"

 

Many other "experiments" that are fun if anyone has interest. Joyce