Jack Haubner was raised conservative Catholic, studied philosophy and abandoned Catholicism in college, and went on to become a failed screenwriter/stand up comic/drug abuser before making his way to a Zen Buddhist Monstery to ultimately become an Osho (Teacher). This memoir recounts humorous, touching, and occasionally awful anecdotes about his life as a Zen Buddhist monk. The point of much of this book is to show that, while much of society thinks that because monks are striving for a type of perfection, it doesn't mean that their thoughts, emotions, and actions are all Zen all the time. Flares of temper, relapses into bad habits, and personality quirks that are blatantly un-Zen frequently arise. It is in how these faults are recognized and dealt with that makes the monks different from the "average person."
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