Valerie interviews scholar and author David Hinton about his new book, “The Blue Cliff Record.” David speaks about several fascinating topics, for example “absence” and “presence.” Absence, David says, is the generative absence from which the 10,000 things arise. They live their lives, then dive back into absence where they are reconstituted into energy. Presence is the 10,000 things that absence forms itself into and forms empirical reality. (Yes, it is that kind of mind-expanding conversation!!) So much more is explored in this rich and fruitful interview….
