Face to No-Face: Rediscovering Our Original Nature [Paperback]

Douglas E. Harding (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2000

Face to No-Face is the latest published work of Douglas Harding, and offers an approach to realizing the limitless "No-Face" that is completely unique and highly practical. This is his first book based on dialogues and conversations, and it truly captures the spirit of this remarkable man in a manner both humorous and personal. Harding's writings have been acclaimed by Huston Smith, C. S. Lewis, and Ram Dass for their great originality and simplicity of approach.In this distinctive series of dialogues, Harding discusses the fundamental issue of life: how to awaken to the natural freedom that is our true self. Through a series of "exercises," he guides us to where we can clearly perceive our original nature. From this vantage point, we see that who we really are is not limited to our face and the self behind the face, but is instead the limitless "No-Face," the infinite and eternal essence that is both absolutely free and at the same time identified with all existence.The rediscovery of "oneself" by oneself is the principal theme, and Harding articulates "the way home" in a manner that is always refreshingly authentic.

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About the Author

Douglas Harding, one of the most respected mystic/philosophers of our time, is the author of numerous books on spiritual awakening, including the widely acclaimed "On Having No Head,"

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: Inner Directions; First Edition edition (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878019155
• ISBN-13: 978-1878019158
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,110,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Look for yourself, April 5, 2001

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Marilyn Celebi "ExBrit" (Los Altos, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Face to No-Face: Rediscovering Our Original Nature (Paperback)

Having read more spiritual books than I can remember it comes as a great shock to read one that stopped me cold in my tracks. Harding has found a way to stop the world. His solution is to "look for yourself" into the nature of being - no techniques, no gurus, no formulas, just look for yourself, and if you actually do look in the way that he suggests, you will learn to "see". This book is a revelation.

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, February 6, 2001

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This review is from: Face to No-Face: Rediscovering Our Original Nature (Paperback)

This book is a wonderful presentation of Douglas Harding's teachings, experiments, etc. In his writings and his workshops Harding has, for the past several decades, provided a way of looking (literally) at life itself that can bring one to understand what mystics from all ages and cultures have been talking about. What he encourages readers to do is marvellously simple and profound. This book includes the contents of two of his workshops and several interviews with him. This brings out a side of Harding that has not always been accessible in his other books. He is an excellent writer but the spontaneity and liveliness he shows in person really comes across here. He also addresses many questions that people have when encountering his work. I think this book would serve equally well as an introduction to Harding's work or as an expansion on it for those already familiar with it. It is a welcome addition to what is already, in my experience, a life-changing body of work.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why have spiritual teachers not made it this simple before?, August 4, 2004

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This review is from: Face to No-Face: Rediscovering Our Original Nature (Paperback)

I am 68 and have spent many of my years looking for something this book points out in the very first chapter. The "exercises" discussed are designed to redirect ones attention to the most obvious but consistantly overlooked aspect of our being. I doubt that any thing I have to say about it would convey my deep appreciation and enthusiasim for the teaching that is presented here. As the author says, try it for your self, it works.