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

by Douglas E. Harding

It takes an innocent eye and an empty head (not to mention a stout heart) to admit their own perfect emptiness.

In fact, I knew not whether the wind was riding on me or I on the wind.”

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see ... Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people. HUANG-PO (9th C.)

and the world is fathomless because I am fathomless.

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.