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To Be and Not To Be, That Is The Answer by D. E. Harding

 

The life I'm living consists of two contrasting elements.

(1) There are all manner of ever-changing things - sticks and stones and somebody's bones, arms and a trunk and legs, people and animals and plants, planets and stars and galaxies, goodness and truth and beauty along with their opposites, sensations and emotions and thoughts of all kinds, and so on and so on.

(2) Here is the unchanging No-thing that's in receipt of all those things, the arena they perform in, the conscious Emptiness that makes way for them, that disappears in their favor. Here I'm the absence they are present in and presented to. And it's because these two elements of which I'm composed are totally contrasted that they dovetail so neatly, coming together in seamless unity.

Being and Not-being are the two faces of the same coin of pure gold. It is because like Hamlet, we are split down the middle, that the currency of our life is debased and we are miserably poor. But when at last we bring the two faces of the coin together, and we are no longer cases of Being or Not-being but of Being and Not-being, we find ourselves rich beyond compare and all our life is transformed . . .

excerpt from
To Be and Not To Be, That Is The Answer by D. E. Harding

 

To learn more about Harding or read more, visit here for an additional passage, here for the "Spiritual Giants" section, and here for his web site.

 

 

Editor's Comments

So what, exactly, is Harding talking about?

To us, Harding seems convinced that he has found, essentially, "The Answer" to "The Problem."

And it seems like he's not asking us to "take his word for it" or just believe him - or have "faith" in what he says, with no "evidence" to back it up . . .

Rather, it seems to us like he wants us to check it out for ourselves, by conducting our own investigation.

 

- umm, investigate what, exactly?

Well, it seems to be the experiments he designed...