With Finding Your Buddha Smile: Coming Home (To What Zen is Really All About) lay Zen teacher and award-winning author, Rafe Jnan Martin, reveals Zen to be a thoroughly radical, yet completely accessible and practical way of realizing what the Buddha himself realized 2,500, years ago. As Roshi Martin makes clear, koan-based Zen is neither esoteric, nor reserved for the special few. Its whole point is to help us walk the Buddha Way and realize happiness and peace of mind while living full and satisfying lives in a complex and challenging world.
About the AuthorMartin, Rafe: - Rafe Jnan Martin, founding teacher of Endless Path Zendo, Rochester, New York, is a lay Zen priest and teacher in the Harada-Yasutani koan line. A personal disciple of Roshi Philip Kapleau, (The Three Pillars of Zen) and editor of his final books, he also trained with Robert Aitken Roshi (Diamond Sangha) receiving inka and Dharma transmission from Danan Henry Roshi, a Kapleau Roshi Dharma heir and a Diamond Sangha master. His writing has appeared in Tricycle, Lion's Roar, Buddhadharma, Zen Bow, Parabola, Inquiring Mind, and The Sun, as well as other noted journals of religion and myth. His books have been cited in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and USA Today. He is a recipient of the prestigious Empire State Award.