On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

by Douglas E. Harding

This is not a matter of argument, or of philosophical acumen, or of working oneself up into a state, but of simple sight - of LOOK-WHO’S-HERE instead of IMAGINE-WHO’S-HERE, instead of TAKE-EVERYBODY-ELSE’S-WORD-FOR-WHO’S-HERE.