Solomon Katz' interest in meditation led him to Asia where he lived as a Buddhist monk in Burma and Sri Lanka. By the time he returned home and began doctoral studies, he had spent three full years in periods of silent meditation. At Harvard University, he earned concurrent graduate degrees in world religion and psychology. He trained in, practiced, and taught psychology at Mt. Auburn Hospital, a Harvard affiliated teaching hospital, and held a clinical faculty position at Harvard Medical School.
Both a self help manual and a work of art; the author - a child of Holocaust survivors, former Buddhist monk, and Harvard trained psychologist - takes the reader on a journey of mind from suffering to spiritual realization.