Looking no farther - our own view is a gaze within the infinite. There is sight, and more, there is an awareness of that which is seen. At no point are we divided from the origin of sight and the out flowing world of light and form. We can return our gaze directly to the source - an empty, headless, space of mystery. Is the seer seen? Or is this a faceless reality, awake in its allowance for all things to be? Look no further, here, a view found in both directions - and find out what is really seen.
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It's weird, but we've never actually seen our head. There have been photos, reflections, and description that have been give - yet no one has actually seen that in which sight emerges. There are sensations, and we can trace the contours of where we think a head should be. But does this qualify as a head? Douglas Harding, through his writing and wisdom guides the reader through the actual experience of pointing and finding an awake absence where the head should be. In an instant I "saw" (without seeing a thing) my own spacious reality. And now I practice this seeing - first, my own headlessness, and then the unique (yet very common) view: in the space in which my head should be - I find the world, and further still, expanding (ever expanding) I find the universe. And it's all right here, where I thought my head belonged. In the practical sense - this is where I find distance. My steps are just the formality of self exploration of my own headlessness.
Peace,
Eric
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