What is Truth, really!!?

If you are truly interested in knowing, beyond even the slightest doubt, a peace that has no conditions or limits, if you are truly interested in knowing a freedom that has absolutely no boundaries at all, if you are truly interested in coming to the end of all seeking, then please consider, very slowly and carefully, the following: (take as long as you need.)
Awareness is everywhere and always.
It is always here. It is always now.
You are this NOW itself!

Someone asked me, ”If it is being which is doing everything because everything is being then isn't that total free-will but on a much deeper more encompassing level? Or am I right off track?? It doesn;t feel to me like free-will is a construct of the ego, it feels natural.”
(His email was longer than the above stating that in his experience he has complete free-will.”)

Yes you are absolutely right. However, understand that ‘you’ himself just like Burt himself is a Oneness. In this seeming individual called Burt or ‘you’ there is no true choice or freedom because these individuals are conditioned concepts just like the waves of the ocean seem separate and individual and unique and yet they are the product and action of the ocean (Oneness). For 27 years I played teacher and even had my own TV show and wrote a book that sold well. Yet in the year 2000 I 'woke up' and realized that Burt was just another concept I created. Waking up is not an attainment nor an accomplishment but the beginning of seeing clearly -- yes my friend, just the beginning -- and this seeing is this -- there is only NOW eternally and you are THAT!! With "THAT" you have freedom, choice and complete control but it is not individual control. It is at this stage that one begins to understand what could never have been understood. It is this realization of Oneness (NOW) that we know how to laugh, how to enjoy, how to love, how to cry, how to be free. You are a human being, a duality creature made up of two opposing forces. These forces are totally opposite...the human is after "ADDITION" and the BEING is all about SUBTRACTION. Thus when all has been subtracted such as fear, guilt, suffering, ego and false ideas and beliefs, what will stand out is BEING that which has always been there before time itself. This is the real freedom, joy and happiness beyond imagination. Most people who strive towards awakening have no idea what it means. Awakening means there is no such thing as getting anywhere, getting anything or accomplishing anything but seeing that you are NOTHING. When you finally see that you are NOTHING (awakening) then you also see that you are everything. If you have understood this then I truly congratulate you my friend.

Perhaps the most difficult thing for most of us to understand is the simple, and if you examine it directly, most obvious fact that there is no such thing as a solid, separate, stable entity that I can call “myself.”
Nouns (labels like teacher, writer, doctor, lawyer, man, woman, human being, body and so on), proper nouns (my name, your name, personal pronouns like ‘me’ ‘mine’ ‘myself’ and ‘my life.’ Often combined with mental images of your face and body at various ages, morphed together with various role models and anchored by muscular contraction and other physical, mental and emotional sensations such as self-defense, self-protection work collectively to create a fictitious life. It may be convincing on the surface, and there may be the security and comfort of habitual perception, but if you investigate carefully and directly, you will find nothing but unsubstantial memory and fantasy edited by a motive and attitude. Nowhere in any of that is there a real, verifiable “you” or “me.”
This is what waking up means – it is seeing the truth for the first time and it is usually a shock and often results from a situation of suffering that has no ‘way out.’
Waking up to the Truth as it is, is no picnic. However, in seeing the truth, which is true, you are faced with NOTHING. You are nothing. But then something else happens – you see clearly you are everything because you are the NOW (Oneness) itself. You have had many changes of being a baby body, a child learning to walk and talk, a teenager who thinks he/she knows, a young adult, a mature body with accompanying personality, beliefs and ideas based on conditioning and finally seeing that it is ALL an illusion. So what happens faced with this predicament – you are the very BEING you have been chasing after all your life wanting to be special, different and to be ‘somebody’ and when finally woke up discovering your true essence you will see that it has all been an evolution towards subtraction and NOT addition. It is in this subtraction that you discover you are everything you ever really wanted – freedom, love, joy, peace and above all, Oneness (Now) itself.

The most fearful question is this initially, “If there is no separate me and no separate you, then what is left?”
My dear everything is left. You look around: in the absence of mental and emotional editing, there is nothing but awareness and everything that arises in it. Everything that you can see and hear and smell and taste and FEEL and think and otherwise experience. There is nothing but this NOW, this whole, infinite, everything.
Someone complains, “But this scares me!!” -- yes, and just imagine being without any fear whatever? Imagine that death is not possible? Imagine that misery, suffering and all bondage was your creation as it never existed?
The self you thought you were was a deception, a habitual unconscious guilt filled with judgments, gossip, pettiness, cruelty, fear, self-centredness, loneliness, sorrow, worry, stress, anger and find all that subtracted from you. Then what is left is laughter, joy, freedom and a life that is aligned with God (Oneness).

After writing the above it occurred to me why the video #5 was so popular…
http://youtu.be/nfWTmjWaIFA
It is because the people who are awakening are seeing thatTruth is simple, obvious and liberating, it is subtracting and not adding and the way to that subtraction is through forgiveness. When the word, most powerful word for healing, is discovered to be ‘forgiveness’ then we understand what it really means – there is nothing to forgive – everything is divine and okay!!

The Course says:
“All the vestiges of hell, the secret sins and hidden hates be gone through forgiveness. And all the loveliness which they concealed appear like lawns of Heaven to our sight, to lift us high above the thorny roads we travelled on before the Christ (Being) appeared.”

burtharding@shaw.ca

The Three Laws of NOW!

You say 'now' is perfect but all problems whether past, present or future all happen now. So what is so perfect about 'Now'?

You are confusing 'NOW' with the 'present time.' The present time is where everything happens whether recollection of a past hurt or the anxiety of a future condition. The 'NOW' itself is timeless. It is a Silence like the center of a bicycle wheel that supports the spokes of the wheel and its motion while the center remains still. In the fury of a storm upon the ocean surface lashing it about there is still the Silence of its depth. Similarly, within the present time of frenzied activity lies the quietness of the timeless NOW!

The 'NOW' is a stillness beyond time and space and within lie the two most powerful laws of human experience -- Self-recognition and Self-organization. The Awareness of Self-recognition helps us realize our Oneness since every human on earth knows that he/she exists as awareness itself. Yet, awareness does not belong to anyone. From this Self-recognition emerges Self-organization where the law of synchronicity plays its glorious part.

HOW TO LISTEN -- NOW!!

For many years I studied, meditated and even taught classes, appeared on own TV show and interviewed twice on CBC "Food for thought." Despite these years of reading and study and practice, it was in the year 2000 during a conflicted relationship that I woke up to the fact that there's nothing to learn or attain but to LISTEN in this eternal NOW moment. Once we realize this then all seeking stops and we become clear, free and at peace.

Our Human Journey

Why do we have to go through a journey with so much suffering when in Truth we are already in the image of God?

It is like climbing a ladder that reaches higher than the clouds. We wonder what it would be like to reach the top and find all the secrets of existence. We start climbing and seeing more as we climb. We reach the middle and panic at the great overwhelming grandeur and a part of us clings to the bottom while another part longs for the top. Finally we reach the top and realize that we haven't gone anywhere as the ladder was always here. We had gone from here to here but now we see it for the first time. As T.S. Eliot wrote, "We shall never cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring we shall arrive at where we started and know that place for the first time."
This journey is a journey of discovery. Once we see beyond our linear brain to the holographic essence that we are, we shall also see that nothing happened, nothing was achieved, nothing was accomplished but have reached HOME finally. It is a glory that can't be even imagined.

The TEACHING

"What is your basic teaching?"

Here, in brief, is a PowerPoint that covers it.

Four Human Survival Laws

"Why do we sabotage our best efforts especially our spiritual expansion?"

You are a human being -- just as the human is a movement of seeking, striving, wanting, needing, yet it never arrives because what it is really seeking is itself, which is the Being. The 'Being' is a zero-point and it frightens the human part. Therefore, not understanding the dynamics that what we want we already are, we search for the tangibles instead of the zero-point that produced them. In other words, all Being is nothingness, meaning no-thingness, and is a zero-point. It is this zero-point which is pure potential from which everything has emerged.
Our dualistic struggle between human and Being produces all the conflicts and sabotages and self-punishments that we experience until we realize that the human and Being can be experienced as ONE. It is this Oneness that is what we truly want and seek -- harmony, balance, peace, love, joy, meaning and fulfillment.
Here is a video explaining the Four laws. Through them we understand the whole dynamic process of growth.

What is a Direct Experience?

Workshop on Direct Experience!
with Burt Harding




Let me guide you to a Direct Experience of your true nature!

Every morning I reply to numerous email questions from around the world. The subjects vary from esoteric, to personal, to relationships and to daily living.

What is the common dilemma everyone suffers from?
Here are just some recent questions…
Why do I feel as if I am doing something wrong most of the time?
Why is the feeling of lack so tenacious?
Why do I have this feeling of wanting to be right even if it makes me miserable?
I know all about Truth being love and yet I keep choosing fear unconsciously?
Why do I sabotage myself?
Why do I feel as if I am not good enough?
My childhood has been a reasonably happy one and yet I feel inadequate at times, why?
…and many other similar ones. What seems to be the problem? Why is it so universal?
Over 95% of the population have read, studied and practiced spiritual principles but they do not live from them in daily life, why?

The answer is simple – this knowledge has remained surface mental know-how but hasn’t reached the heart. It has been said that an awakened being is easy to spot. They do not talk about spirituality but simply emanate a quiet joy that has been awakened through inner heart-knowing. When teachings such as a Course in Miracles describe the teacher of God, it is described as a state of inner joy.

We are now witnessing a fast-shifting and changing consciousness, accelerating at a speed unknown in human history. Young people suffer anxieties from fear of the future and older people suffer from inadequate inner knowing and peace.

I have been asked about such a workshop many times and finally feel the strong feeling to conduct it. I am NOT a ‘teacher’ for what I will show you, you already know in your heart. I will simply act as a guide with simple tools and methods to unfold this inner knowing - not with spiritual words but with direct experiencing of the truth of you.

Can we find peace in a world we don’t understand? Definitely!!
This peace is not something you are going to attain but a Source that is ever-waiting to release itself with the right attitude, open-heart and willingness to listen. This is something that you already are and it is a matter of re-cognizing it! It will be a clear seeing just as you know you exist!

If you want to know a little bit more about me, please copy and paste these links into your browser:
http;//www.burtharding.com
http://www.youtube.com/burtharding/

Also listen to this interview regarding my own experience:
http://batgap.com/burt-harding/

The Workshop

This workshop will be my first class offering after a few years rest from public teaching. I am responding to the many requests for classes I have received from students around the world who follow my YouTube videos and email correspondences. My hope is that you will listen to your heart’s response to this opportunity to directly experience your Self.

The class will be held in my own home, which accommodates about 15 people. Since space is limited, please respond promptly to make us aware of your interest. Once your registration is confirmed, payment instructions will be sent.

Workshop on Direct Experience!
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Cost: $150

There will be a one-hour break for lunch. You may either bring your lunch or go to one of many nearby cafés.

Testimonials

“When I happened upon Burt’s website 2 years ago I had no idea that it would change my life forever. Through Burt’s many emails and videos that he freely offers I came to see clearly the truth of who I am. Burt’s wisdom, compassion and unconditional love helped me to open my heart again to myself and others. Any questions I had Burt was always there with a quick reply and a heartfelt explanation. If further clarification was needed Burt readily was willing to explain again anything I wanted to know. It has been very easy to hear what Burt had to share whether in an email or in a video, due to his very gentle and loving spirit that touches your heart immediately. I am so very grateful to Burt for reminding me of the precious gift that I am, and as a result I am able to teach this to others. Burt has shown me how sacred love is and that when we allow, accept and just be, that miracles do happen.”~~ Karen from Peterborough ~~

“It is hard to describe the feelings that took over me when I listened to Burt’s warm, soft, loving and playful words. They have touched me so much, they caressed me in the most deeply buried and most painful places, in which I have been hiding my pain because I didn’t have the power to confront it. Burt encouraged me to gaze into my vulnerability, to accept it and use it as the foundation of my stability.
I have learned a lot from many various teachers but when a student is ready then comes Burt.”
~~ Savina, bestselling author and international master of Face Yoga ~~


“Wow, I really can’t thank you enough! You have helped me see clearly and also helped me through a very difficult period of my life. I now see that time is not as , negative but as a chance to awaken to whom I am. Without my suffering I would not be feeling this incredible peace and love in this incredible NOW that I had forgotten. Thanks again my dear friend. The life that we are is love.
~~ Pelle ~~

“Dear Burt, two weeks ago you gave me your blessing for translating your videos to Polish YT. I feel it would be nice to send you a report:)
Burt, people’s reaction is so amazing for your message and the way you speak about it! I felt your message from the first video I “saw” you, but I couldn’t predict this reaction:)
After only two weeks, almost 1,300 people have viewed these only 11 translated videos. And it is still growing. Many people copy these videos to their channels, forums, share it, etc.
You truly got to Polish-language Truth seekers (or Awareness got through You).
People thank for your message and “want” more translations:)
It makes me laugh, because you have 545 videos on the internet and probably one year would be too short for one person to translate them all:) maybe some will join.
~~ Krzysztof ~~

“Dear Burt, please accept my deepest gratitude for the wonderful gift you gave me. You don’t know who I am, but about three weeks ago I cam across your Youtube videos and I started to pay attention to the message you were giving people about how to love is the greatest, most powerful force in the universe.”
~~ Paul ~~