The Art of Consciously being the Ground

On Monday, six friends of Victoria’s Non-duality Meetup group, gathered in the great room of the main house. Richard Lang (The Headless Way), skyped in from London UK and we had a great time consciously being the Space or Ground or Container for whatever appeared on display…the room, the furniture, the ‘others’ and the big screen TV with Richard’s animated face on display. Richard took us through the four stages of life… The Baby – who is boundless and doesn’t yet know itself as a separate ‘thing’ in a world of other separate things. The Child – who has begun the process of “thing-ing herself into believing she is what everyone tells her she is…a small limited self. The Adult – who has completely bought into being a separated identified human ‘thing’ in a world of billions of apparent ‘others.’ The Seer – who has turned around and “Seen” her original emptiness while simultaneously being the Space or Ground from which all the “apparent things” seem to manifest. Richard then walked us through some of the “Headless Experiments” – experiential, non-verbal, physical ways of pointing and “Seeing” who and what we really, really are. Everyone “got the point”, so to speak, that there is no hierarchy of Seers or any so-called Enlightened Ones who can see the emptiness at our centre any better than anybody else. We then gathered round the kitchen to enjoy a nice light lunch, lovingly prepared by Shannon, and shared our individual ‘take’ on the experiments. After lunch we watched a short video of an interview with Alan Rowlands discussing his experience with J Krishnamurti when he taught piano at the Brockwood Park school in the UK. David facilitated an experiment in sound using Tibetan chimes and finally Shannon took us through the closing “headless circle.”