This is a collection of 100 poems covering the first 100 days of Zen meditation practice in the confines of a countryside Buddhist temple. These are not poems of enlightenment and peace or worldly observations. These are poems of struggle and discomfort. These are not poems of book learning and priestly discussions, but of simple observations sitting in meditation, eating in silence and cleaning the hallways. These are poems of celebration of a new world that any Buddhist practitioner will enjoy reading. Also, throughout the book are photos of Buddhist and Shinto temples in Japan. Neither the...

A literary tribute to the World-Teacher, Heart-Master and religious guru Adi Da Samraj, formerly recognized as Bubba Free John. In a unique prose style - divinely inspired and culling from the styles of Gertrude Stein, Adi Da Samraj and the Beat Generation - this is the story of a middle aged everyman, a Mr. Zero if there ever was one, whose materialistic and heathen existance comes face to face with the divine being, a man called Da. Using a unique poetic prose style of repetition and mirror prose imagery, this is a story of semi-biographical caliber, that anyone of spiritual leanings can...