Headless Place of Being

Headless place of being:

it's not to imagine, but to provide evidence for this one assumption - to simply turn attention towards the source that holds awareness, to see for myself this headless place of being. Nothing needs to be imagined, always present, emptiness only waits for my attention. 

my evidence is in seeing, turning to look for my own head is not a Zen metaphor, it's seeing what is, and what isn't in equal measure. Without mirror, or photo, I only have someone else's word for my appearance, never once having seen my own face. 

and it's my true face I'm interested in seeing. 

so I was asked to turn, just trace my attention back from any object, to see who's actually seeing - and of course, there was no one to be found. The source of my awareness - is emptiness. In a literal sense, through my own seeing...

I'm headless.

and more so, through this emptiness, I find myself endlessly fulfilled, that I am the seamless hold for all that comes to my world. It's the capacity for what belongs, and I've yet to discover anything that doesn't, and this so much includes my own sense of self, my body in all it offers, thoughts and personal identity - they are all cherished for appearing. 

everything belongs. 

what see, by seeing, is that I'm not empty of any given thing - but capacity for the world to be, an emptiness of service and true devotion. To find myself headless was a rediscovery of purpose, that by simply being I provide my real value to the world. What a gift to have discovered? That through my absence and appearance, both happening at once in seamless fashion - I am always giving, always serving, and always in the truest sense...

loving what appears.

~

Peace, Eric