In this new book, AMA Samy describes the essential dimensions of Awakening. “Awakening is itself beyond discursive explanations and descriptions. But without language and understanding, the experience of Awakening will be lost like water poured on desert sands. Language and understanding are necessary to articulate one’s experience, to deepen it and to realize it–to make it real and actual.”

This book is a testament to the many years of teaching Zen by the master: illumining, provocative and challenging. It complements the teishos (dharma talks in the Zen tradition) of his earlier publication, Zen Heart, Zen Mind: The Teachings of Zen Master AMA Samy (Cre-A: 2002).