title: A View From A Lake: Buddha, Mind and Future
author:  Neil Hayes 
description: Dr Neil Hayes has a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Oxford. He has meditated for many years and has learnt from monks in multiple Buddhist traditions. He is a double cancer survivor who has benefited from sufficient suffering to road test the mind training techniques he advocates.
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  ## The Years of Rice and Salt
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Kim Stanley Robinson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Years of Rice and Salt
  
  
  ## by Kim Stanley Robinson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Tripitaka:** Monkey, how far is it to the Western Heaven, the abode of
  Buddha?
  
  
  
  
  
  **Wu kong:** You can walk from the time of your youth till the time you grow
  old, and after that, till you become young again; and even after going through
  such a cycle a thousand times, you may still find it difficult to reach the
  place where you want to go. But when you perceive, by the resoluteness of your
  will, the Buddha nature in all things, and when every one of your thoughts
  goes back to that fountain in your memory, that will be the time you arrive at
  Spirit Mountain.
  
  
  
  
  
  The Journey to the West
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Another journey west, Bold and Psin find an empty land; Temur is displeased,
  and the chapter has a stormy end.
  
  
  
  
  
  Monkey never dies. He keeps com