Yóu have a head, with everything: cheeks, chin, and ears, nose and eyes that determine your position
That head of yours is full: there is a tongue in it, with teeth and a lot of brains, but
I don't have that myself
I am not that myself
When I think of the inside of my skull, there is nothing: a void
And when I concentrate on it I just have no thoughts as if I am completely at ease
not something, just space an observing spirit to whom the world appears
• "Headless" is an insight that Douglas Harding (Lowestoft 1909-2007) received in 1943 • "On Having No Head. Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious" (1961, Douglas Harding)