On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

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Your face is itching? Great, that's a nice thing to notice. You want it to stop? Boom, lost in thought. You've taken your mind off of the itch, and you're now anticipating the next itch you'll feel. you're in your head again, ignoring external input, looping away. uncover his identity at centre - his True Identity - took on a degree of urgency. Aware of the obvious dangers of war, he wanted to find out who the very suggestion of headlessness is for many people profoundly offensive, and there's no end to the objections they will raise. Never mind: headlessness is for living always, for sharing occasionally, for arguing about never."

had drawn himself without using a mirror – he had drawn what he looked like from his own point of view, from zero distance. Harding wrote other books - also available via the bookshop. He died in January 2007, shortly before his 98th birthday.

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Douglas Harding created a simple way of "seeing". His mission was to help people experience what is really "here", right where they thought their head was!

The result is this book- a discussion of not only what happened to him, but an examination of consciousness itself. Where does consciousness reside? Where is the 'me' of our constant thoughts and emotions? But it wasn’t just his head that was absent. There was something else that was noticeably missing from the vast and beautiful scene in front of him: the author himself. There was no “he” who was observing it. There was just the scene itself. The world was simply present – existing as a “self-luminous reality” that was “brightly shining in the clear air, alone and unsupported, mysteriously suspended in the void,” as he would later describe it. You can see that OTHER people have heads! (I'm assuming that you haven't turned off your object detector completely, so you see people, not pixels.) Yet perhaps that’s overkill - for Roshi Kapleau in New York in the awakening sixties, it is a sudden ecstatic glimpse into groundlessness, which many of us experienced firsthand in those heady days. But it’s still only the Tail of the Elephant! Buddhism, as any religious system of insight, requires a lifetime total commitment from us.a difference. Most self-portraits are what the artist looks like from several feet – she looks in a mirror and draws what she sees there. But Mach The deeper realization is that there is another kind of consciousness – a pure kind of consciousness – that can be glimpsed in the short windows between thoughts and sensations and identification with them. This consciousness is untainted by the things it experiences, like a mirror that doesn’t get dirty when it reflects dirty things. This much I can grant Harding, both conceptually and from my own investigations of my mind. However he tries to make the further leap that all conscious beings are therefore partaking in the same consciousness, which he calls God, and that the apparent separateness of individual minds is an illusion. At this point he has made a metaphysical statement of faith about the ontology of the universe that is not justified by the evidence, and he and I part company. To his credit, Harding doesn’t ask you to take this on faith but to do the practice and see for yourself, as this is a profoundly empirical exercise, but one in which you are obliged to build your own scientific instrument before you can glimpse the hidden reality (much like a telescope or microscope opens up hidden realities). What a strange, fantastic little book! I recently read Douglas Harding's " On Having No Head" after hearing Sam Harris mention the book in one of " Waking Up" meditations, and then many times on subsequent podcasts.



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