About the Author
John Staples says he first became interested in Buddhism when he read Ogden Nash’s lines: “In the winter I’m a Buddhist/In the summer I’m a nudist.”
That interest became a passion after he completed a seminar called The Forum and experienced flashes of awareness similar to those reported by Zen Buddhists.
The experience led him into the works of Lao Tzu, D.T. Suzuki, Taisen Deshimaru, Alan Watts, Thomas Merton and others.
More importantly, he says the practice of living in the present moment attained through meditation, contemplation and simple observance of everyday life provided the foundation for a fundamental acceptance of the world “as it is, not as we imagine it should be.”
In Make Love, Drive Freeway, the author provides a glimpse into the realm of enlightenment that Zen Master Charlotte Joko Beck calls “nothing special.” Nothing, that is, unless one considers living one’s life in absolute joy as something of little consequence.
