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

by Douglas E. Harding

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.