About the site…
Welcome. The journey may be rocky, but we’re all in this wagon together. This is a vehicle for posting chapters of my book as they get written and edited. If you’re here to read, the chapters are posted as Pages under the parent page “A War Journal” - the working title of my book. Thanks for making the effort, and I hope you find it interesting, perhaps even edifying.
In addition, I will post things in the weblog (category “On writing”) about the process of writing and any information about changes to the order or new pieces. I also may add posts on other subjects as this develops, and will add categories to reflect those subjects.
I would love to have comments. I need feedback! Thanks!
Oh. About the site title, well…. shunyata is a Sanskrit word that means something like this: everything in existence, including you and me, is ‘empty’ of an inherent self-nature because everything is so intricately and inextricably linked with everything else that there is really only one thing and this is it, you are it, God is it, I am it, your toenail clippings on the floor under the bed from last week is it, and so absolutely anything and everything that exists or happens or appears was, is, and will always be infinitely and completely wonderful, exquisite and delightful. I consider myself in lifelong apprenticeship to this radical notion of the nature of life and existence. Writing a book and posting it on website and having wonderful intelligent people like you come and read it is all part of this learning! So I hope that this weblog and my book will help everyone to see how perfectly wonderful everything is, even though it is all completely absurd. Some of the posts may deal with the subject further….
Oh yes, if you want to read the book, you’ll need to contact me for a password. Just leave a comment asking for the password, and an e-mail address… I’ll get back to you!
Thanks!
-John