After the Absolute

The Inner Teachings of Richard Rose

David Gold, Bart Marshall

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English

Realface Press
07 November 2023

Oriental & Indian philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Zen Buddhism

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"Richard Rose was an unlikely Zen master: A rugged, plainspoken, ornery West Virginian, he scraped out a living raising goats, planting crops and painting houses. But Richard Rose had a secret: Having once vowed to ""find the Truth or die trying,"" Rose experienced a cataclysmic spiritual awakening at age 30 that thrust him into ""Everything-ness and Nothing-ness,"" or what he called ""the Absolute."" The experience left him with only one earthly desire: to do anything, for anyone, on a similar quest for Truth.

David Gold was an unlikely student: An arrogant, ambitious and egotistical law-student, Gold only agreed to meet the ""enlightened hillbilly"" in the hopes of showing him up. But when Rose turned the tables by seeing right through Gold and painting a devastatingly accurate picture of the fears and obsessions that ruled his life, a humbled Gold found himself hungry to know more.

Thus began a remarkable 15-year adventure-part spiritual odyssey, part legal thriller-in which death threats, corrupt politicians, and life-threatening cancer run parallel to glimpses of the divine and extraordinary manifestations of timeless wisdom.

""After the Absolute is one of the most gripping, intensely interesting, dramatic, and indeed romantic-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, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, and Magical Child."

By: David Gold, Bart Marshall
Imprint: Realface Press
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9798868976179
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 07 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active