The Invisibility of One's Eyes

To be headless is our way of talking about the Chinese expression, mushin, no mind. You don't see your brain as an external undulating, corrugated structure; you see it as everything outside. Eckhart said that because my eye has no color, it is able to discern color. This is fundamental to our idea of being absent as the condition of being present, being not there. John says, when your belt is comfortable, you don't feel it. When your shoes are comfortable, it is as if you weren't wearing any. Likewise your clothes. But we raise an objection to this, a very simple objection. If I don't know I'm there,