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Samsara (Oak Harbor), Nirvana (Washington) USA (Whatever that means)
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(who's there?)
BOOTA!
(boota? boota who?)
KNOW! BUDDHA YOU!
BIO
DAVE "KNOWBUDDHAU" PARKER (I prefer to write by my nom de plume, knowbuddhau)
OAK HARBOR, WA
Born: Oak Knoll Naval Air Station, Alameda, CA March 19, 1964
I have something I hope to share with the world.. Back in 1973, I was selected into an experiment in public education, along with about a dozen of my peers. My school district called it, the Challenge Program.
As a result of that year's standardization of the Stanford-Binet IQ Test, we were told we were geniuses. That's right, they really did. We were allowed to indulge our innermost curiosities. Aside from saddling us with that misnomer, I think it was brilliant. Ever since, I've been trying to figure out how brains work. I'm ready with my answer.
My high school creative writing teacher sent me to Centrum, the location in Pt. Townsend, WA where An Officer And A Gentleman was filmed the year before, for a week in March, 1982. She had submitted my poem, The Well of My Brain, unbeknownst to me, to the National Honor Society, and it won Poem of the Year.
I narrowly avoided the Academies, rising to #30something on the Annapolis waiting list, despite giving the appearance of an ardent supplicant. I ended up at University of Washington by default.
I study psychology as a naturalistic science at University of Washington from 1982-1989. I went on to study research psychology at Western Washington University Graduate School of Psychology in Bellingham, WA from 1989-1995, when I dropped out, having run out the clock without finishing my thesis.
In 1997, I began reading the online Journal of Buddhist Ethics. In the last week of January and the first week of February, 2000, I had an epiphany of mythic proportions, what Alan Watts called "cosmic consciousness."
Next thing I know, I'm sitting on a cushion at One Drop Tahoma Zendo (Freeland, WA), enjoying tea and cookies with the head monk and guests, when, in answer to a woman's question about poetry, Yu-san said, "Dave here is quite the Zen poet." The bastard outed me just like that!
