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On Having No Head

Douglas Edison Harding

'Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down... I forgot my name, my humanness, my thingness, all that could be called me or mine. Past and future dropped away... Lighter than air, clearer than glass, altogether released from myself, I was nowhere around.' Thus Douglas Harding describes...

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The Shawn Ryan Show

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The Shawn Ryan Show

The speaker referenced the book as illustrating an old Buddhist practice and noted that its ideas about frames resonated with them, even though they hadn't read it.

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There's this book that I forget the name of and I didn't even read, to be honest. But the idea that somebody explained to me from the book really resonated. It's something about frames.

— Episode: #320 Danny Goler - Apple Vision Pro May...

Episode: #320 Danny Goler - Apple Vision Pro May Have Captu...

The speaker referenced the book as illustrating an old Buddhist practice and noted that its ideas about frames resonated with them, even though they hadn't read it.

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There's this book that I forget the name of and I didn't even read, to be honest. But the idea that somebody explained to me from the book really resonated. It's something about frames.

There's an old Buddhist practice illustrated really well in this book called On Having No Head.

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

This was described as a spiritual classic thin volume that was recommended to the guest by the host's husband and Joseph Goldstein. The guest found this book to be mind-blowing and a strong practice for immediately experiencing the dropping of the illusion of self.

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I actually love to quote Galen Strass and the philosopher Galen Strass who says what you do follows from what you are.

— Episode: The Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, Ann...

Episode: The Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, Annaka Harris

This was described as a spiritual classic thin volume that was recommended to the guest by the host's husband and Joseph Goldstein. The guest found this book to be mind-blowing and a strong practice for immediately experiencing the dropping of the illusion of self.

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I actually love to quote Galen Strass and the philosopher Galen Strass who says what you do follows from what you are.

and I can't remember if you and I've talked about this or not but that that's the one thing that's the strongest practice for me and brings me almost immediately to the place that I had kind of discovered on my own after hours of meditating Douglas Harding wrote us I guess what you could refer to as a kind of spiritual classic thin volume kind of like yours called on having no head

which was initially recommended to me by your husband and also by Joseph Goldstein

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