My Story.........................................................................................
Forty-five years ago I left my job as a regional
planner in Cleveland to begin a journey looking for
“Truth,” which to me at the time meant finding the
most basic particle of knowledge, an irreducible “true
thing.” I had studied both Eastern and Western
philosophies, had practiced meditation, had read
extensively in Zen Buddhism and decided finally to
stop wasting time and devote myself totally in a search
for the “quantum” of truth, around which all others
revolved.
After many years study with six Zen masters;
Muktananda, and after having met every Zen Master
and High Lama that came to the United States during
the 60s and 70s, I finally found my two gurus: Robert
Adams, a student of Ramana Maharshi; and Jean Dunn,
successor to Nisargdatta Maharaj. Both led me to
discover the “truth-quantum” which holds the
universal network of thought together, guided me
through several awakenings, and ultimately to Self-
Realization a decade later.
Briefly what I found was that the central core
concept that supports the network of thought standing
matrix-like behind all appearances is the belief in the
existence of an inner I-entity that was me. The
thought there is an inner me was the dominant thought