After the Absolute: Real Life Adventures with a Backwoods Buddha Book

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 â??find the Truth or die trying,â? Rose experienced a cataclysmic spiritual awakening at age 30 that thrust him into â??Everything-ness and Nothing-ness," or what he called â??the Absolute.â? 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 â??enlightened hillbillyâ? 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 adventureâ??part spiritual odyssey, part legal thrillerâ??in which death threats, corrupt politicians, and life-threatening cancer run parallel to glimpses of the divine and extraordinary manifestations of timeless wisdom.Read More