I can't see my own face. Not without looking in a mirror, anyway. At first, this might not seem important, but it is.

What the hell am I talking about?

I'm talking about The Headless Way, a direct way of seeing who you really are. Here is a 10-minute video about it:

So, you can't see your face. That is a simple fact that is self-evident once you look. But the key to all this is where you then go from there.

Where others see my face, I see everything else. When I truly relax into this, I experience a peaceful feeling of openness. I feel expansive, unlimited, infinite.

In those moments, it doesn't matter what my face looks like to other people. That's their experience of me, but not my experience of me. My experience of me is of EVERYTHING ELSE.

This then becomes a direct experience of the concept of "no-self". Others see me as an individual, but for me, there is no separate person there. When I look in the mirror, I see the face others see — albeit as a mirror image. But that's not what I see when I am not looking in a mirror — when I am just going through life.

Similarly, I can see "Edward the person" via the metaphorical "mirrors" that other people hold up to me — e.g. how they respond to me, things they tell me about myself. But when I'm not looking at "Edward the person" in other people's "mirrors", I don't experience a person, I experience everything else.

Realizing that the sky is more than just the clouds is not about denying that the clouds exist. The sky isn't even the blueness. That's just how it appears when we look at it. The sky is the space that contains blueness and clouds.

What do you think?

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