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On Having No Head

By: Douglas Edison Harding
Narrated by: Richard Lang
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'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.

©1961, 2014 The Shollond Trust (P)2017 The Shollond Trust Buddhism Philosophy Spirituality
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Wouldn't reccomend reading it if you haven't already had some experience with meditation, particularly insight/mindfulness meditation.

The books premise is ironically both the key source of struggle for understanding the ideas inside and the fundamental explanation of these ideas. A bit of trust and willingness to try the 'experiments' with an open mind is not only reccomended but probably essential.

A bit of a head scratcher

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recommendation from Sam Harris. but my kind of book. I found more benefit from Sam's very brief explanation of this concept than the book itself.

I'm probably not spiritual enough for this

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The narrator did my absolute head in.
Couldn’t get into or around it but maybe in a few years of practice ill work it out?

It did my head in

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