AFTER THE ABSOLUTE: REAL LIFE ADVENTURES WITH A BACKWOODS BUDDHA] - By: David Gold

AFTER THE ABSOLUTE: REAL LIFE ADVENTURES WITH A BACKWOODS BUDDHA 

By Gold, David ( Author) 2002 [ Paperback ]

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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, David 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.

Product details

• Paperback:386 pages
• Publisher:iUniverse; 1st Edition(PB) edition (September 10, 2002)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:0595239943
• ISBN-13:978-0595239948
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight:2 pounds