On Having No Head

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This amounts to a profound declaration of intent. It is the realization at gut level (so to say) that one’s deepest desire is that all shall be as it is – seeing that it all flows from one’s true Nature, the Aware Space here.”

What about when I look in the mirror? Well, there's a head in the mirror. Is that... my head? Whoops, at Level Two, that question makes no sense. By calling the pixels in the mirror "your head", you're making inferences that you could test... but not at Level Two. Inferences occur in the little lab in your brain where you go to figure out what things mean. In the present, who cares what things mean? That's so Level Zero.A most interesting set of studies have examined the phenomenon of cardiac memory. This is a clinically important pathway, in which specific changes of heartbeat pattern can persist stably ( Otani and Gilmour, 1997; Goldberger and Kadish, 1999; Rosen and Plotnikov, 2002). This phenomenon has been modeled as a simple memory-like quantity that determines the relationship among the durations and amplitudes of action potentials ( Otani and Gilmour, 1997). Most importantly, a specific mathematical model has been proposed for cardiac memory, taken after Hebbian plasticity in the brain ( Chakravarthy and Ghosh, 1997; Zoghi, 2004). Perhaps this is a book to be experienced rather than described. Rather, I might humbly suggest, like consciousness itself?

the star, the galaxy… Like an onion he had many layers. Clearly he needed every one of these layers to exist. In 1961 the Buddhist Society published On Having No Head – written for a popular audience. (Also available in the bookshop.) Harding wrote other books - also available via the bookshop. He died in January 2007, shortly before his 98th birthday. his world was no head, no appearance - nothing at all. And this ‘nothing’ was a very special ‘nothing’ for it was both awake to itself and full

There exist, then, two sorts – two widely different species – of human being. The first, of which I note countless specimens, evidently carries a head on its shoulders (and by ‘head’ I mean an opaque and coloured and hairy eight-inch ball with various holes in it) while the second, of which I note only one specimen, evidently carries no such thing on its shoulders.” Though down the centuries this in-seeing has been made out to be the most difficult thing in the world, the joke is that it is really the easiest.”