On Having No Head

Besides confirming yet again one’s true Identity, this aspect of our submission to the Obvious - of our two-way looking, our meditation for all seasons - happens to take the rush out of “the rush of modern life”: or rather, out of the one who thinks he rushes. He never moved an inch. All his agitation is illusory. He neither needs nor can do anythi

All Ways are divisible into more-or-less arbitrary and often overlapping stages. Here, we distinguish eight: (1) The Headless Infant, (2) The Child, (3) The Headed Grown-up, (4) The Headless Seer, (5) Practising Headlessness, (6) Working It Out, (7) The Barrier, (8) The Breakthrough.

This two-way attention, cleansed of one-way intention, is sufficient to liberate us from all ill.

Our two-way meditation, then, is truly radical psychotherapy - psychotherapy so deep that overt and particular results may be very slow indeed to surface. Nevertheless, when sufficiently persisted in, it is sure to yield - more as a bonus than an expected reward - quite specific improvements in that “outer” scene, in the problem-ridden realm of our

Whatever we have to do or take or suffer can thus be turned to our immediate advantage: it provides just the right opportunity to notice Who is involved. (To be precise, absolutely involved yet absolutely uninvolved.) In short, of all forms of meditation this is among the least contrived and obtrusive, and (given time to mature) the most natural an

It is consciously being what we really are - Capacity for things - the Space in which each of them is allowed to arrive at its peculiar kind of perfection. It is consciously viewing everything from its Source, reuniting it with the Infinity that lies this side of it. It is hearing, seeing, smelling, touching things as if for the first time, relieve

It’s all a matter of putting first things first, of never losing touch with THIS.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what’s so. WERNER ERHARD (1935- )