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More than 30 years ago, author Dillon Masters left behind a prosperous career on Madison Avenue to plunge the depths of human consciousness by following the path of Zen Buddhism. In the process of that exploration he awoke to a worldview vastly different from the perspectives enjoyed by ordinary people. In this book, Masters examines the motive and the solution of dominating greed that is shaping our contemporary world and driving us toward an abyss. As the world rushes forward with ever increasing speed to carve off exclusive shares of dwindling resources, Masters calls us back to find within what we all desire. Prior to his quest, he served two tours of duty in Viet Nam as a Marine C ...

Everything has two sides. There is what we perceive and one who perceives: the seen and the seer. The apparent and the hidden define each other. Without these two sides nothing could be understood or exist, yet we remain unaware of our most basic nature of unity: who we truly are. Because we don’t know, we define ourselves by linking our identities to the ever-changing flux of the apparent world, and in so doing create suffering. In The Other Side of Midnight, the author examines this dilemma and clearly shows that polarity is not to be feared but instead embraced as the principle defining all life from the sphere of the metaphysical and the physical.

We move through our lives like a leaf floating on a river, discovering the eddies, the rapids and tranquil pools. A stone falls into the flow and is made smooth by the grinding. As sap rises and falls in the depths of a tree, so our spirit moves in our bodies taking us to places both near and far. We are not humans having spiritual experiences but rather spirits having a human experience. It is in this manner of rising, falling and polished by adversity that our rough edges are ground away and our spiritual core revealed. This is an allegorical short story tracking the emergence of genuine self-awareness of an any-man discovering that beneath the fabricated lies the real.

This is the second edition of Waking Up: the anthology of all blogs written and posted to Dharma Space (http://dillonspace.blogspot.com). Dharma Space represents inspired messages stemming from my own awakening to the united True Self of all mankind concerning applications to the modern world. It is a roadmap for all people wishing to realize the best way of life available to us all.