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Fans of the Triple Diamond Sutra had no way of knowing that the third book has been missing from the print version and appears a short chapter in other books. But this is the first full release of all the materials in The Third Diamond. In addition to the infamous characters of old: Sensei, The Dreaded Fujikami and Fu War, we find Christs working retail jobs and Orange County surfers looking for make up for the deficiencies in their lives. At one point the universe appears to be missing a leader and at other points God seems to lose His omnipotence. We stumble into computer rooms that run parts of the universe, deities who have quit their jobs and innocent job applicants forced to rule worlds for thousands of years against their will. All of the poems that appeared in the short version of this book have been converted to prose works and this makes the whole book more readable on various devices. There are plans to get this book in paperback on its own and plans to do a grand reconstruction of what would be a new version of the Triple Diamond Sutra, possibly going over 700 pages. These materials arise in the spirit and ancient Rinzai literature minus the minimalism. And while the short book is open to the charge that there is way too much talking and explaining in there, I defend the work as getting to the essence of the unknowable nature by continually throwing the reader back on his or her own assumptions and even the assumptions of other parts of the Triple Diamond Sutra. The new and complete addition of The Triple Diamond Sutra might not come out till sometime between late 2021 and early 2023, and so, before that time, this short volume is indispensable to the completion of this modern iteration of a very controversial tradition, a kind of Los Angelized combination of Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen hurled into the ever whirling blender of world religions. Some parts of these books are so difficult to accept that I sometimes don't accept them, even though I publish them. No one, not even me, can have any hope of complacency in these pages.

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Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...