Douglas Harding

These two autobiographical essays by Douglas Harding were written 30 years apart. Harding wrote the first one in the 1960s when he was in his early 50s. He wrote the second one, "On Having No Head," when he was 80. They are instructive, insightful, and entertaining...

This book demands the listener's courage and sincerity. It insists that he shall start all over again, dropping all ideas about what he's supposed to be, and taking a fresh look at himself to see what he actually is. If he will only dare to do this, he is promised an astounding discovery and an...

Here, we come to the very heart of Mahayana Buddhism and of Zen--the doctrine of prajna, particularly as it appears in Hui-Neng and his followers. The Void, which is the topic of this book, this emptiness or nothingness that stands so magnificently alone, is certainly no mere void, no common...

Two friends, one a specialist in archaeology, the other an artist, were spending a day or two in the interesting old town of Bingly. One in investigation of the old church, the other in sketching it. A telegram announcing the death of James Briggs, the artist’s brother, put an end to the...

This remarkable work by the author of On Having No Head is didactic fiction in the English tradition of More, Bunyan, Butler, Orwell and Huxley. Taking the form of a court case in the year AD 2003 in which a man is tried for blasphemy....

If these tales had been written by an unknown author, then they would be no more than entertaining reflections on the childhood and youth lived in the early 20th century. But they gain in interest and significance because of who wrote them, for they provide an insight into the life and mind of a...

Douglas Harding is best known for his book On Having No Head, and for the development of his "headless way experiments" - awareness exercises that enable anyone to see who they really are - the boundless single eye that we are all looking out of and that includes everything... As well as writing...

The Face Game is the game of pretending to be a person. When we see who we really are, we stop playing the Face Game and begin living a game-free life, the fruits of which are love, joy, and peace. This game-free life is also known as liberation, enlightenment, salvation....

An infallible guide to eliminating stress by the author of On Having No Head. When we come up against stressful situations in our everyday life, our automatic reaction is to turn away and escape. If, on the other hand, we can accept stress, allow it to become part of us, the conflict disappears...

This unabridged original version of The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth is a very great work of philosophy. There is nothing like it. It is a profound breakthrough in terms of how we see ourselves in the world....

This is a dramatic story, a wild dream, at times a nightmare, at times a hilarious and subversive satire. It involves a quest, a monster, and a shape-shifting hero, strange characters and dangerous goings-on, and an end that is a beginning....

This book is about the heart of religious experience, namely Enlightenment (which is finding the truth concerning oneself), and about science (which is finding the truth concerning other things), and about the relationship between them. It claims that Enlightenment is more truly scientific than...