Publisher's Synopsis
'aumdada manifesto' is a book Son Rivers has been working on for twenty years. Incorporating the nondual teachings Son has studied the past ten years, it also attempts to synthesize the poetics of formalism and the art of the spoken word, resulting in a poetry-prose form named iambic parameter for lack of a better term. As for the substance of the book, Aum is the sacred sound and spiritual symbol referring to ultimate reality and Dada was an art movement rejecting the 'reason' and 'logic' that led to WWI embracing chaos and irrationality instead. Combined, 'aumdada' is a writing form embracing ultimate reality while recognizing the absurdity of uttering anything about it.
"Aumdada is the binary reality of one and zero. Is Jay Gatsby and is Moby-Dick. Is the nothing that's not nothing. Is everyone is sighing over universal fireworks display. Is the one I am. Is silence only talks if one is listening. Is wisdom of the zero and the love of one. Is most are looking for a happy ending never seeing there's no beginning. Is Tao of breathing in compassion, breathing out belief. Is the great unknown that can be known is the known that can't be named. Is the hero knowing that it's zero but it's playing one because. Is how much deconstruction can the construct deconstruct if a woodchuck could chuck would."
