“Radical Dzogchen” is Now Available

November 28, 2022
My latest book “Radical Dzogchen: The Direct Way to En-Light-enment,” a seminal, iconoclastic, sure-to-be-controversial text, has just been published and is now available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon, and from other book sellers. Below are the Contents and the Preface of the book.

CONTENTS 

Notes to the Reader 

Chapter One: Dzogchen (The Great Perfection) 

Chapter Two: The Trikaya (the Triadic “Structure” of Reality) 

Chapter Three: Rigpa (Primal Presence) 

Chapter Four: Trekcho (Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism) 

Chapter Five: Togal Part 1 (Conducting the Clear-Light Continuum) 

Chapter Six: Togal, Part 2 (The Perversion of Dzogchen) 

Chapter Seven: Electrical Dzogchen: Plugged in Presence 

Chapter Eight: Christian Dzogchen: The Mystical Eucharist 

Chapter Nine: Daist Dzogchen: Radical Understanding 

Chapter Ten: Dzogchen Discursion 

Chapter Eleven: Dzogchen Literature: A Cognizant Overview 

PREFACE 

Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, a.k.a. Atiyoga, has, since its inception, been proclaimed by Tibetan gurus to be the pinnacle of all spiritual paths, the most direct way for a yogi to achieve Buddhahood.… Read the full article

“Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind” Now Available in Paperback and Kindle at Amazon

June 23, 2022
Introduction

In 2018, I decided that my next writing project would be a Buddhist “trilogy” consisting of texts on Dzogchen, Zen, and Pali Buddhism. I was motivated to undertake this project because I believe that Buddhism is in need of an “upgrade.” As I see it, there isn’t a single living Buddhism teacher-writer who has “cracked the code” and is thus able to properly elaborate on Buddhadharma, Consciousness, and Awakening. Given my view of the “fallen state” of Buddhism and my belief in my ability to “resurrect” it, I began my project.I started my “trilogy” with the Dzogchen text, but at the point I was half-done writing it, a series of epiphanies convinced me to put it aside and instead focus on this Zen text. The gist of my epiphanies was that Zen, principally due to the influence of Madhyamaka, epitomizes the downfall of Buddhadharma; therefore, it deserved my first attention. Further, because Zen disses the thinking mind, I realized that it was most important from the outset of my project to counter its anti-mind ideology; hence the title Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind.… Read the full article

“Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties” Is Now Available

January 11, 2022
My new book “Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties” is now available in Kindle at Amazon for the temporarily low price of just $4.99. In case you don’t know, you don’t need an Amazon Kindle reader to read Kindle books; you can download the free app. from Amazon and read them on other devices. (I read them on my laptop and desktop.) At some point, I may do a paperback version, but that won’t be for at least a few months.

I began the formatting process on “Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties” 3-plus months ago, and I never expected it to drag on for this long, which it did for various reasons. The formatting for “Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind” will begin next week, and if all goes well, it will be published next month. It will be available in both Kindle and paperback.… Read the full article

Update on My Forthcoming Zen Book

June 28, 2021
I finished writing and editing this book 3 months ago. I had a cover done, and then, through Fiverr, paid a person to lay out the manuscript for publication. But that person, and two others I tried thereafter, failed to properly get the job done. In the meantime, I finished putting together (but not editing) my ebook "Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties." So my plan now is to finish editing "Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties," publish it as a Kindle ebook, then devote myself to getting my Zen book (which will be a paperback as well as a Kindle) ready for publishing, then published.

Getting "Buddhist Book Reviews" published first makes sense, because the book contains reviews of books I refer to in my Zen book (and my forthcoming Dzogchen book). Once I find a competent, reasonably priced lay-out person for my Zen book, I can then have this person also lay out my Dzogchen book, which like my Zen book, I've finished writing and editing.… Read the full article

Dark Buddhism

November 18, 2020
[Note: This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, “Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind.” I had planned to publish the book this month, but when the layout person did a poor job, which I rejected, and I subsequently decided to make a some changes to the manuscript, I decided to push back the publishing process until January.]

Dark Buddhism: Integrating Zen Buddhism and Objectivism is a book by Morgan D. Rosenberg that seeks to reconcile Zen Buddhism with Ayn Rand’s Objectivism. While I respect Rosenberg’s effort, I have little regard for his “Dark Buddhism,” because his grasp of Buddhadharma does not exceed a pop Zen level, and he fails to creatively and esoterically integrate Zen and Objectivism. Below is my review of Rosenberg’s book (which was originally posted at Amazon, and then deleted by Amazon along with the rest of my 300-plus book reviews). My review summarizes my criticism of his Dark Buddhism, but rather than just criticize his book, I decided to also describe my vision of Dark Buddhism, the description of which follows my review.

My Review of Dark Buddhism

The author of this book, physicist Morgan D.… Read the full article

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