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On having no head : Zen and the rediscovery of the obvious

by D. E. Harding

First published in 1961, this work examines the mystical experience of 'headlessness' and the transcendence of the ego. It details the state of no-self, in which individual identity is replaced by a sense of spiritual clarity.

Accession 34514 ISBN 9781914316258 Publisher Shollond Trust
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