Apt Self-Description

Apt self-description:

and now I’ve come to prefer the term capacity as an apt self-description, that what I am can’t possibly be negated by exclusion alone, although that’s a technique that brings to me to the point emptiness. Yet that still seems to be just the beginning of noting my existence. Yes, I am emptiness, serving as capacity, and with this realization I find that I am very full, indeed, nothing truly can be excluded from my reality now.

everything belongs here.

this is the headless way, first detailed by the British philosopher/mystic Douglas Harding when he discovered the absence of his own head, that try as he might he was simply incapable of viewing his most noted features. Being curious he didn’t stop there, refusing to dismiss this as just the limits of his vision, Douglas gave this absence his full attention and discovered that where he once believed his head was located — resided the entire universe. Douglas Harding came upon his emptiness and then explored the contents found there, seeing himself as capacity for everything that life presented, he was a seamless hold of infinite proportions, he was emptiness as well as it’s fulfillment.

emptiness/form.

an apt self-description.

it’s easy for us to point towards our own absence, to find ourselves headless too…