This video interview is with Bill Garside, whom I have known for many years. Bill first saw who he really was in 1973 in a workshop with Douglas Harding. In this film he talks about his initial resistance to Seeing, and then the subsequent process of saying Yes! to it.
Perhaps once a week I get a phone call - sometimes from someone I've not been in touch with before - asking me a question about headlessness. Today was someone wondering what I thought about the 'advaita idea' that there is 'no person to do anything', or 'nothing you can...
I just gave a radio interview. The podcast should be available in a few days, I guess, from the radio station website. A great experience, to share Seeing.
Paula Marvelly from the Advaita Academy interviewed me a couple of weeks ago. Here's the transcript.
Last week I interviewed a friend, Camilla, who was a hostage in Chechnya. Camilla has been Seeing for 40 years, and in this video interview talks about Seeing & Forgiveness.
During the workshop yesterday we did the Tube experiment where you look through a paper tube at another person and notice you are face to no-face with them. I demonstrated with the lady next to me, just for a few seconds. She came out of the tube and exclaimed, "I...
Someone just wrote to me, saying the headless method didn't work for them, and asking me why I thought that was. Here is my email back: Perhaps there are a couple of reasons. First, you cannot see your head, so you don't fail in that. Everyone can notice this. But...
We had a good workshop on Friday evening at the Cambridge Buddhist Society - about 30 people present, including some good friends. Then on Saturday I gave another workshop at home - 12 people came. A delightful day!
My film, "Stepping Into The Void" is now on Youtube with Spanish subtitles. Thanks, Gustavo, for translating!
Here's a conversation I just had with a new friend, Stephane. Dear Richard, I do the pointing experiment and the difficulty I have is about the sensation in the body. I can point to the external object and then at me and realize the void here, the me. But the...
Reflections on living from Capacity