This book is a truly masterful piece of literature and is a must read for
anybody interested in Zen or the study of human consciousness. Most Zen
masters refuse to discuss the discipline or explain it. Hubert Benoit takes
the opposite, and for the intellectually-inclined seeker, the more accessible
path, and discusses Zen in exhaustive detail in terms of psychology and
philosophy.

Benoit writes at an extremely high level of abstraction (something quite alien
to traditional Zen, which deals mainly in parables) and practically every word
he writes rings with utter truth and fidelity to the workings of consciousness.
He is clearly a man who has absorbed the Zen teachings and then examined the
workings of his own mind with unfailing rigor and perceptiveness; he has taken
those findings and translated them into language with a care and accuracy that
nobody else, to my knowledge, has ever matched. The results are utterly
profound. I urge you to take a look at this book for yourself. It is a unique
and amazing work which gives solid practical meaning to Zen philosophy, and
to the mysteries of the mind.

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