Gleaned from the author's experiences over many years Yoga and Zen training as well as from conversations with teachers, folk stories and temple magazines, this is a fascinating and enlightening compendium of tales from the Yoga and Zen traditions. Stories such as these are used in many spiritual schools' teaching - they're the flint or steel that makes the spark which, when nurtured daily, fires the imagination, heralds enlightenment and insight.

In this volume, Trevor Leggett presents three texts translated from Japanese and compiled to illuminate the three ages of Zen in Japan: the warrior Zen of crisis and war in the thirteenth century; the feudal Zen of eighteenth-century samurai officials and finally the modern Zen found in 20th-century Japan.

Trevor Leggett examines and discusses the issues raised in this Hindu book of law as it pertains to the notion of yogic practice leading to the realisation of the Universal Self ( tman-br hman), closely referencing the great Indian sage Shankara.