A Headless Perspective

eric mccarty
2 min readMar 2, 2021
Headless Perspective — Headless Now — Poetry — Moca McCarty Photo

A headless perspective:

my perspective is relaxed on these matters — there’s just this seeing, a clarity of what belongs and that truly nothing is excluded. It’s a headless perspective by means of pointing, and then simply resting in the peace that’s found through this awareness. There’s no rush to fill this spaciousness with a new, better understanding. It’s enough to see, to now investigate the world without a line of separation. I have no desire to debate what’s found, nor to add another theory. I’ve rediscovered my life, headless, empty, and yet so very much fulfilled.

it’s about finding myself as capacity, and as such, there’s little need to argue on distinctions — looking outwards, I find the world before me, looking back towards the source which holds the view, I find myself within the world. Seamless. Nothing disappears but the idea of myself as a solid host of seeing, that everything begins and ends within my personal view. There is no ownership to any of this.

headless — the world just is.

yet to say capacity is also misleading, as if there are limits to this hold, or that this emptiness claims a special point of being, an entity of some power to be aware. The capacity mentioned here is its own fulfillment, not at all separate from its hold. It’s this that I always return to, the simplicity of seeing, and releasing…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student