“It took me no time at all to notice that this nothing, this hole where a head should have been was no ordinary vacancy, no mere nothing” — Douglas Harding
“I have never been anything but this ageless, measureless, lucid and altogether immaculate Void: it is unthinkable that I could ever have confused that staring wraith over there with what I plainly perceive myself to be here and now and always!” ― Douglas E. Harding, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
“Nevertheless the dauntless spirit of science burns bright and clear in everyone who sees that to disappear as a particular thing is to reappear instantly as the No-thing that is the imperishable Home of all that perishes, and that to die now is to die never.” ― Douglas E. Harding, Look For Yourself
“(i) What you are now looking at is this printing; what you are now looking out of is empty Space for this printing. Trading your head for it, you put nothing in its way: you vanish in its favour.” ― Douglas E. Harding, On Having No Head: Zen & the Rediscovery of the Obvious
