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

By Hadring D. E. (Douglas Edison)

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Arkana
Year
1986
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2942502 bytes)
Pages
81\96
Topic
Religion
Time added
2022-01-07 19:21:24
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Description

'Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down... I forgot my name, my humanness, my thingness, all that could be called me or mine. Past and future dropped away... Lighter than air, clearer than glass, altogether released from myself, I was nowhere around.' Thus Douglas Harding describes his first experience of headlessness, or no self. First published in 1961, this is a classic work which conveys the experience that mystics of all times have tried to put words to. [From Amazon.] FOREWORD by Huston Smith vi PREFACE by Gene R. Thursby ix 1 THE TRUE SEEING 1 2 MAKING SENSE OF THE SEEING 5 3 DISCOVERING ZEN 21 4 BRINGING THE STORY UPTO DATE 35 The Eight Stages of the Headless Way: (1) The Headless Infant 36 (2) The Child 37 (3) The Headed Grown-up 38 (4) The Headless Seer 42 (5) Practising Headlessness 50 (6) Working It Out 56 (7) The Barrier 70 (8) The Breakthrough 73 Summary and Conclusion 76 POSTSCRIPT 78

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