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The Invisibility of One's Head

To be headless, you might say, to have no head in just the sense I'm talking about is our way of talking about the Chinese expression, motion, no mind. You think your head is a blank, but actually it's being a blank. What you see when your eyes are open is how it feels inside your head. The transparency of the eye lens is the condition of seeing colors. It has no color itself. My cat said this, because my eye has no color, it is able to discern color. This is fundamental, Dao, is either of being absent as the condition of being present, being not there. If we're happy and we don't know we

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