202302272034 Status: #idea #🧠 Tags: #meditations-with-seb # You're Barely Even Here > And what I found was khaki trouserlegs terminating downwards in a pair of brown shoes, khaki sleeves terminating sideways in a pair of pink hands, and a khaki shirtfront terminating upwards in—absolutely nothing whatever! Certainly not in a head. > > 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. On the contrary, it was very much occupied. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything—room for grass, trees, shadowy distant hills, and far above them snowpeaks like a row of angular clouds riding the blue sky. I had lost a head and gained a world.” ― Douglas Harding, [On Having No Head: Seeing One's Original Nature](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/803388) > “I lost a head and gained the world.” ― Douglas E. Harding ### Meditation Hullo. You ever thought about the back of your head? Try feeling it now. I’ll wait. Feel it? Behind you there? Good. Now consider this. You are not in front of the back of your head. Your consciousness — the stuff that it feels like to be you — is not between the back of your head and your face. What you feel as the front of your face and the back of your head are both appearances in consciousness. Just sit with that. Each of us is the hidden empty centre of the universe. Each of us is the hidden emptiness at the centre of the world. --- # References -