Listen now. A distant star, the sensations of the body, a troubling thought, another person’s voice—we tend to place these at different distances from what we take ourselves to be. But in the final installment of Experiments in Having No Head, Richard Lang explores how our usual sense of distance begins to dissolve when we pay close attention to experience.
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Experiments in Having No Head
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New Sessions
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A distant star, the sensations of the body, a troubling thought, another person’s voice—we tend to place these at different distances from what we take ourselves to be. But in the final installment of Experiments in Having No Head, Richard Lang explores how our usual sense of distance begins to dissolve when we pay close attention to experience.
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Artwork by Matt Mills
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4 New Sessions
Experiments in Having No Head
by Richard Lang
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Across four new meditations, Lang shows that the world was never so remote, our tensions never so personal, and other people never so apart. Everything still appears in its own way, in its own place, he says, but without being separate from the awareness that knows it.
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The following sessions are now available:
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Also by Richard Lang
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In The Headless Way, Richard offers experiential exercises, based on the teaching of Douglas Harding, designed to investigate the first-person point of view. In The Illusory Self, he and Sam discuss both advantages and criticisms of Harding’s method.
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About the Teacher
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Richard Lang is a meditation teacher and writer. He was a longtime student of Douglas Harding, the author of On Having No Head, among other books. Richard has written several books, including Seeing Who You Really Are, The Man with No Head, and Open to the Source: Selected Teachings of Douglas Harding. In 1996, Richard co-founded Sholland Trust, a charity created to help share Harding’s vision as widely as possible. To learn more, visit headless.org.
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