Category Archives: Books


Wouldn’t You Like To Be A Pope Too?

August 24, 2007 – 10:31 pm

Years ago, in a land a lot like where I live now but not quite as old, I came across the Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Anton Wilson. It was a very good read, and managed to melt a bit of my brain loose from societally imposed habitual thinking. I then […]

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Once You’ve Caught The Bug There Is No Cure

July 25, 2007 – 11:22 am

Douglas Harding was the “founder” of the Headless Way, and his teachings are kept alive by one of his long time students, Richard Lang over at Headless.org (really a well laid out and chock-full website). I have read Harding’s book, On Having No Head, and found it to be both very entertaining and a […]

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Who You Talkin’ About?!?

July 23, 2007 – 5:28 pm

When someone tells you, “I love you,” and then you feel, “Oh, I must be worthy after all,” that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, “I hate you,” and you think, “Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,” that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold […]

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Fourfold Realization of the Headless Way

July 17, 2007 – 8:08 pm

From Douglas Harding’s book, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
The Fourfold path of Self-Reliance on the Headless Way:

The way really to live is to look in and see Who is doing so
The only You are in a position to see this “Who”
This in-seeing establishes You as the authority on what […]

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Meditating on the Possibilities

May 22, 2007 – 4:33 pm

I have recently re-taken a daily meditation practice. In line with my new method of being more gentle with the demands I make on myself, I have not dove in full bore. Instead, I am taking it at an easy, but consistent pace. I meditate everyday, sometimes in the morning, sometimes at […]

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