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UNC
• Tuesday, September 3, 7:30 pm • Location: Johnston Center Room 039 • Non-students pay $10 in advance, or $15 at the door. • Students pay $5 in advance, or $7 at the door. • Contact Michael McGrew, MMcGrew@Email.UNC.edu, for information or reservations. |
Interactive lecture by Dave Gold
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"Our debt to [Gold] is incalculable...Gold's telling of this tale proves one of the most gripping, intensely dramatic and heroic-mythic yet poignantly human accounts I have ever read. It would make a fantastic, if unbelievable film, and is a profoundly important document."
--Joseph Chilton Pearce, best-selling author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg, on Dave Gold's book After the Absolute
"Dave Gold is one of the most honest, dedicated men I have ever met. His commitment to his work, both in his company and with his students in the Self Knowledge Symposium, is unsurpassed. I count myself lucky to be able to work with him."
"I've learned more from Dave Gold than I have from any class or professor I've had at NC State. He is much more than a teacher—he is a mentor. Teachers teach you about books and famous people and math. Mentors teach you how to live. Dave makes me a better person."
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David Gold—successful trial lawyer, author of After the Absolute, founding partner in multi-million dollar software company Raleigh Group International (acquired by Identify Software), and lifetime spiritual seeker—discusses the risks and rewards of living by a different set of rules.Gold's talk is drawn from his diverse experiences—from founding one of most successful law firms in the history of West Virginia, to being hunted down by Hare Krishna assassins, to living with and studying under American Zen Master Richard Rose. The talk challenges students to understand the complex nature of "real education," the type of education that shakes you up, makes you think in ways you had never thought before, and which can dramatically change who you are and how you live your life. It explores the paradox of managing your own need for individuality with the demands of studying with a truly dynamic teacher."The first time I met [Zen teacher] Richard Rose," Gold begins, "he blew me away with his incredible perceptiveness, his way of going directly to the Truth, and his ability to avoid all the petty games people play." Gold, then an ambitious, young, northeastern lawyer, took a leap of faith and moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, to study with Rose. He set up his law practice in the small rural town, despite big-money opportunities in the north, and moved into Rose's home. "Rose knew something. I could tell that from the moment I met him. He was awake, in the truest sense of the word," Gold says. "Sometimes I think that the whole rocky course of my association with Richard Rose—living under constant confrontation in his house, practicing law in a backwoods West Virginia town, carrying a gun because the local Hare Krishnas put out a contract to have Rose and me killed, and all the rest of it—issued from a single, transient desire to know what it was to be awake."
The map to the left shows the South part of N.C. State University, highlighting the student center. The student center is located on Cates Ave., between Dan Allen Dr. and Pullen Rd.
Click here to see a larger version of the map, with sample directions.
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"Eternal is empty (like a bowl),
It may be used but its capacity is never exhausted. It is bottomless, perhaps the ancestor of all things. It blunts its sharpness, It unties its tangles, It softens its light. It becomes one with the dusty world. Deep and still, it appears to exist forever. I do not know whose son it is. It seems to have existed before the Lord." --Lao-tzu |