Double Vision: Can Love Keep Death at Bay?
I dreamed that my husband was dead and that by sheer force of love, I was able to bring him back. As I held him and refused to accept the bottomless grief that was enveloping me, he began to breathe again. However, he was not quite all that he had been. I don’t often fear […]
Zen & Enlightenment
An excerpt from Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen by Brad Warner The night that bestselling author and Zen teacher Brad Warner learned that his childhood friend Marky had died of cancer at the age of forty-eight, he had just arrived in Hamburg, Germany where he was scheduled to give a talk to a […]
On Suffering and Desire
An excerpt from Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen by Brad Warner As long as you have a goal that has not yet been met, you suffer. There is dissonance between you as you are right now and you as you think you’ll be once your desire is met. You feel incomplete. It’s like […]