Zen Sense

This is not a book to read quickly through cover to cover. Each meditation is designed as a "thinking piece". The first, and most important, task when beginning to read one of them is to discover what the core issue is. The meditations have been carefully crafted so that each one contains at least one core idea. Once you discover that core idea, the rest of the meditation is designed to give you fuel for your "thinking fire".
When the mind ceases to think it begins to die. When a person ceases to learn the process of dying begins in earnest. When you don't exercise the single most important characteristic that distinguishes you from all the other ways of being on the planet, you give up that most human of capabilities. Thinking is the path to growing emotionally and intellectually. It is the journey that every human being can take from where they are towards what they can be.
And here at the beginning, I must confess to the same tendency that much author's evidence. I do write to be easily misunderstood. Every writer hopes that all who read what has taken so much effort to produce will understand what has been written. But every writer also knows that a large percentage of readers will simply not "get it". Like every writer, my hope is that the latter will be vastly outnumbered by the former.