July 2023

#5. Excerpted from p 11 “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “. . . to our “target,” unable to be free of them and our processes; so we are held here, tied to the known, living, dying, never seeing our unknown natural nature that is right next to us and with which together we could really […]

4. Excerpted from p 10 “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “I am the ship hand, I am Ahab, tied to both his ship and his whale. I am also the whale in my life, sometimes I breach and I can be seen, but more often than not I’m under the surface, alone, unseen, unknown to

“We all know that death exists, especially the older people, and also the young who observe it. The young say, ‘Wait until it comes, and we’ll deal with it’; and as the old are already near death, they have recourse to various forms of consolation. Please follow and apply this to yourselves; don’t put it

#3. Excerpted from p 9 “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “Thanks to some more in depth investigation of the Self with a meditation teacher ala Ramana/Krishnamurti introduced to me and the school by Dr. BD Kim about [now twenty-two+] years ago; I have briefly contacted that greater Ocean, so I know that it “exists.” But

#2. Excerpted from p 8 “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “. . . our life is a spiritual endeavor; that essentially all religions or spiritual systems/systems for living have the same basic concepts, and also that the same basic energy, what we call “God” or better yet “Love,” is part and parcel to everything and

#1. Excerpted from “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “OK, the timeline is fluid here and I’m moving back and forward in time as I follow certain events and people in the story from the past into the present; and now back into the past . . . . “All rights reserved. #writerslift #writerslife