De · The Witness

The Headless Way

On Having No Head

Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, by D.E. Harding.

Why it belongs

Harding's experiments turn the abstraction 'no-self' into something you can look and check for yourself, right now—witness before doctrine.

Echoes across the paths

The same structure, carried in other images—one tradition's metaphor mapping onto another's.