« … Yet in spite of the magical and uncanny quality of this vision, it was no dream, no esoteric revelation. Quite the reverse : it felt like a sudden waking from the sleep of ordinary life, an end to dreaming. It was self-luminous reality for once swept clean of all obscuring mind. It was…
Étiquette : Headless Vision
« … It was all, quite literally, breathtaking. I seemed to stop breathing altogether, absorbed in the Given. Here it was, this superb scene, brightly shining in the clear air, alone and unsupported, mysteriously suspended in the void, and (and this was the real miracle, the wonder and delight) utterly free of « me », unstained by any…
« … It took me no time at all to notice that this nothing, this hole where a head should have been was no ordinary vacancy, no mere nothing. On the contrary, it was very much occupied. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything – room for grass, trees,…
« … And what I found was khaki trouserlegs terminating downwards in a pair of brown shoes, khaki sleeves terminating sideways in a pair of pink hands, and a khaki shirtfront terminating upwards in – absolutely nothing whatever ! Certainly not in a head. … » « … Je découvris deux jambes de pantalon camouflé conduisant à une…
« … For once, words really failed me. Past and future dropped away. I forgot who and what I was, my name, manhood, animalhood, all that could be called mine. It was as if I had been born that instant, brand new, mindless, innocent of all memories. There existed only the Now, that present moment and…
« … What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular : I stopped thinking. A peculiar quiet, an odd kind of alert limpness or numbness, came over me. Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down. … » « … Il se passa quelque chose d’absurdement simple et non spectaculaire : la pensée cessa. Un calme…
« … The fact that I happened to be walking in the Himalayas at the time probably had little to do with it ; though in that country unusual states of mind are said to come more easily. However that may be, a very still clear day, and a view from the ridge where I stood,…
« … It was eighteen years ago, when I was thirty-three, that I made the discovery. Though it certainly came out of the blue, it did so in response to an urgent enquiry ; I had for several months been absorbed in the question : what am I ? … » Proposition : « … Cette découverte advint…
Reprise en ce début 2026 d’un « chantier » ambitieux, dont des résultats partiels et pas suffisamment satisfaisants avaient déjà été mis en ligne en 2023 … « The best day of my life – my rebirthday, so to speak – was when I found I had no head. This is not a literary gambit, a witticism designed…
Ayant utilisé quelques extraits du documentaire « Human » pour clore l’année 2025 de Méditation dans l’esprit du Zen & Vision du Soi, je vous propose ce « Bonne année » en guise de vœux 2026. Une occasion de plus pour vérifier comme il est simple de tomber le masque, de remplacer le jeu conventionnel du « face à face »…