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OnZen.com will eventually be developed into a site covering the various
esoteric traditions and methods of self-inquiry. Until then, we are pleased
to present the entire text of an
extraordinary book, After the Absolute, by Dave Gold with Bart
Marshall. It can also be purchased from Amazon.com,
as well as from other book stores.
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After the
Absolute
Forward by Joseph Chilton Pearce
(author, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg)
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After the Absolute describes in fascinating detail the true story of attorney Dave Gold's life at the hands of Richard Rose, one of the most unlikely and unrelenting Zen masters you'll ever run across. Rose is a no-nonsense West Virginian who wants nothing more from life than to somehow pass on the cataclysmic spiritual experience, the "Enlightenment," that blind-sided him when he was a young man. Dave Gold is a twenty-two year old law student who thinks he knows what he wants from life (fame, money, women...) until he stumbles upon Rose and his intense spiritual philosophy--just when he least wants to or expects it.
For twenty years Dave Gold worked with Rose as his student, living in his house, enduring the spiritual demands and confrontations of a relentless Zen master. Now, Gold has given us a priceless and intimate look into the life and teachings of one of the most unique, fascinating, and spiritually awake beings to ever walk the planet.
"Gold's
tale is one of the most gripping, intensely interesting, dramatic, and
indeed romantically heroic-mythic yet poignantly human accounts I have
ever read. It would make a fantastic, if unbelievable film, and is a profoundly
important document. This book throws light on the perennial what-and-why
enigma of our species, reveals the makings of a "new cosmology," and surely
gives glimpses into as-yet undeveloped potentials we humans hold within
us. That all this is found in an utterly absorbing narrative proves the
old adage that truth is stranger than fiction."
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce (from the Forward)
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