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In a week my life undergoes a major transition. On June 1 I move into a Zen center/community in the Santa Cruz mountains, where I will reside for the summer, writing, making bricks, and engaging in Zen practice. As time … Continue reading →

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“Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup; it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it in the teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can … Continue reading →

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Author Michael Prescott has recently provided some critical comments on my recent blog post on Chris Carter’s defense of empirical arguments for postmortem survival. Prescott’s widely read blog often addresses the topic of life after death.  However, unlike many other bloggers, Prescott … Continue reading →

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The Dharma  This Dharma is utterly unattainable, and yet I vow to attain it. A butterfly landed on my arm. The contradiction dissolved. This Dharma is utterly unknowable, and yet I vow to know it. I watched my pain and suffering. The … Continue reading →

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What is compassionate knowing? This is an exploration in search of a beginning. Let it go. Let it return. Let it be. Compassionate knowing? See the world as it is. Respond without expectation, without ego-interest, without defensiveness. Compassionate knowing? In … Continue reading →

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Empirical survivalists believe in life after death and also believe that there is observational data that provide evidence for this.  Arguments for survival based on this alleged evidence are designated empirical arguments for survival.  An important feature of these arguments … Continue reading →

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Zendo light grows dim Buddha smiles on falling tear compassion is born, compassion let go impermanence of the world take the journey in 12 steps each of which is dependently arisen pass through Enlightenment’s door to the space where flowers bloom and … Continue reading →

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As It Is .  .  . Again   Sri Krishna speaks – Radha exits his mouth takes form and then vanishes into the dark night of the God’s unconscious. The goddess descends into unknowing, rises later in the form of an … Continue reading →

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AS IT IS    Master Dogen speaks, a bird escapes the cave, where thought and non-thought are born. It lands on Bo tree branch, where it watches the Buddha and the Devil become one. Sitting. Thoughts take birth. Watching.  Thoughts … Continue reading →

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The Survival Hypothesis: Essays on Mediumship, ed. Adam J. Rock (McFarland Publishers, 2013) is now available from Amazon.  Some of the book content is available at Google Books. “Contemporary parapsychology tends to be preoccupied with ESP (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition) and … Continue reading →

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