Reflection 289

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Perfect Seeing

It isn't that I could be wrong about the object out there but that to some extent I must be wrong: to apprehend it at all is to misapprehend it. And conversely, it isn't that I'm likely to be right about the bare Subject here but that I must be right; to see it at all is to see it perfectly as it was and is and shall be for ever and ever, exactly as all its viewers have seen it and will see it. Since there is Nothing to see I cannot see half of it, nor can I half see it; this is an all-or-nothing (all-and-Nothing) discovery which removes any anxiety lest my Enlightenment should be dimmer than yours, or less mature, or deficient in any way whatsoever. To see this one perfect Sight is perfect Sight-seeing, therefore among those who enjoy it there can be no élite, no pecking-order - while the seeing lasts. (Douglas Harding. The Science of the 1st Person.)