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In Transition: Rick Fields

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Rick Fields (May 16, 1942�June 6, 1999)

84,000

84,000 Gates to the Dharma

And mine is best.

What a waste!

Do your practice. Enjoy your life

And let the world

Argue and discuss itself

To death.

- Rick Fields

9/13/98

Rick Fields was fifty-seven years old when he died on Sunday, June 6, and had occupied a preeminent position in the unfolding of dharma in the West for almost twenty years. After being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 1995, Fields chose to battle his illness, maintaining to the end that “Death is not the enemy. Cancer is the enemy.” He died mid-day at home in Fairfax, California, lying beside his wife, Marcia Cohen Fields. He is also survived by his parents, Al and Reva Fields, and his sisters, JoAnna Bogin and Laura Jawitz.

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