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" (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.

(ii) What you are now looking out of isn’t two small and tightly fastened “windows” called eyes but one immense and wide open “Window” without any edges; in fact you are this frameless, glassless “Window”.

(iii) To make quite sure of this, you have only to point to the “Window” and notice what that finger is pointing at - if anything. Please do just that, now... "

Douglas E. Harding , On Having No Head: Zen & the Rediscovery of the Obvious


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Douglas E. Harding quote : (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 <br />put nothing in its way: you vanish in its favour. <br /><br />(ii) What you are now looking out of isn’t two small and tightly fastened “windows” called eyes but one immense and wide open “Window” without any edges; in fact you are this frameless, glassless “Window”. <br /><br />(iii) To make quite sure of this, you have only to point to the “Window” and notice what that finger is pointing at - if anything. Please do just that, now...