Reflection 164

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Genuine Love-Making

The pattern (the form-is-Void pattern) is displayed at all levels. Starting at the top, where it manifests visually as face-to-no-face, it manifests non-visually lower down as body-to-no-body and genitals-to-no-genitals. For provided one attends to what's actually given, the known abolishes the knower and the object ousts the organ that senses it: so that one smells a rose and not a nose, hears drums and not eardrums, touches this page and not fingertips. Genuine love-making is equally simple, equally non-dual and self-effacing, when the lover ceases playing Peeping Tom at his own bedroom keyhole, and becomes an Absentee in respect of all his senses. Imagined symmetry is just as damaging - because as fictitious - below the belt as above. But when it is corrected up there (how easy to disappear for that face!) it is at least well on the way to being corrected below, where symmetry may not be so easy. (Douglas Harding. Quoted in Seeing Who You Really Are by Richard Lang)


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