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I don’t believe in ghosts. But I have met dead people and communicated with them.
As a Zen Buddhist teacher, I shouldn’t be telling you this. The Zen stream of Buddhism is known for a kind of rational mysticism. We don’t generally talk about stuff that would be considered paranormal or supernatural. It’s all about chopping wood and carrying water, ordinary mind is the way, and all that.
But there may be ways to talk about some of the stranger things that we encounter without getting too woo-woo about it. Let’s see what I can do.
My father, Dan Warner, died at around 1:00 a.m. on Friday November 19, 2022. He was 81 years old.
At the time my dad died, I was sleeping. At 1:00 in the morning, I shot upright in bed, wide awake. I was like, what the hell? Why am I wide awake? For a while I was pacing around my bedroom wondering what happened. I finally took some melatonin and went back to sleep. But it was...
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