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Carl Masi, a well-educated East Coast carpenter living in the San Francisco Bay Area, cresting sixty, staggers from one catastrophe to another as his life falls apart. He’s been dedicated to Zen for decades, has a nasty Inner Critic which robs him of any peace of mind, and falls for every illusion possible. The reader gets an insider’s look at what the mystery of Zen is really like for a regular guy. Carl wrestles with a cascade of adversities by applying his Zen teacher’s guidance and the hard-won insights of years of Zen practice, aided by the timely intervention of a deeply caring Catholic priest. The book portrays the spiritual path not as many imagine it to be—a single life-changing epiphany after which all is forever well—but the journey as it is, full of blind alleys, setbacks and periodic redeeming insights from within the crucible of day-to-day living and being.
Hiding Out With The Enemy is a worthy addition to its genre, which will be appreciated by spiritual seekers of every tradition.”
Lewis Richmond, Zen teacher and author of Aging as a Spiritual Practice
Golf Between The Ears
The story follows three thousand meditators who moved, literally en masse, to a small farm town in Iowa. They bought a vacant college campus, started a private high school and began to compete in their high school golf conference.
The parents lost control of their sons who had been bit by the golf bug. They blamed it on the school’s golf coach, Ed Hipp who struggles to overcome his doubts about himself, his marriage, his vision of bringing yoga golf to competition. Hipp’s 16 year old golf phenomenon, Erik Joven, aself-proclaimed loner, moves through the crippling grip of his inner critic, eventually breaking free from the self-inflicted prison of scorn for his game, his self.
Please Don’t Tell My Guru
A young doctor this side of suicide escapes the stress of living large and bodily harm from a poker room’s collection goon. He heads to a guru’s zany commune where free sex, Tequila, and fickle women in command reign supreme. There he is adopted by a comic mix of characters, including two swamis resembling Deepak Chopra and Steve Martin. They find the newcomer, Angelo Fratelli, a quick study of the First Commandment of spiritual shenanigans: All is fair in love, war, and the enlightenment game.
RICO PROVASOLI 