Jiří Charvát

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last perfectly obvious) truth dawns on me. Self-origination isn’t an impossible feat pulled off by someone else, far away, once and for all, long ago, but is going on right here and right now! The Impossibility is sustained, inexhaustible and ever present. Here, in this despised, they tell me tiny, overlooked place, supposedly bunged up with a head, here the whole wildly extravagant drama of Self-creation is being enacted as if for the first time (omit as if) in all its pristine wonder, at this very instant! Right here and now, this mind-blowing mystery - this shout “I AM!” - is my shout, is - ...more
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
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