Where's My Zen?: A Parable of the Ten Paradoxes

Join Master Nomi as he reveals the Ten ParadoxesT to three travelers looking for their Zen. A businessperson from America, a professional athlete from Australia, and an Italian religious scholar together mystically encounter the "Hut of the Blind Donkey" in Japan. This small hilltop monastery where Master Nomi lives serves as the backdrop for an unforgettable night filled with enlightening experiences and ancient Zen secrets.Master Nomi maintains that awareness, liberated from the constraints of your conditioned self, your ego or I-illusion, is then free to flow into all areas of your life-sports, health, business, relationships, spirituality, and academics-leading to reduced stress, peak performance, and deep inner contentment. We realize through his wisdom that there can be no literal answer to Master Nomi's koan, "Where's my Zen?" We can only experience it.We are born with enlightenment, then we lose it. Now, following the path of No Mind, we can experience it again.

Over the last 30 years, Paul Harrison AIA, a Los Angeles architect, has researched, practiced, and experienced many of the mystical teachings of the ancient Zen masters. These secrets of "No MindR" hold knowledge of enlightenment, peak performance, mysticism, and death. Now Harrison has given voice to an alter ego, Master Nomi, to finally share the teachings revealed by the enigmatic Ancient Stone and the old scrolls that contain the Ten Paradoxes.Harrison modeled Master Nomi after the 14th century Zen master Ikkyu (ee-cue), one of the notable Zen rebels and radicals who became known as the Crazy Clouds. Ikkyu was an unrelenting advocate of enlightenment through sexuality—the Red Thread of Zen. Despite his reputation for mischief, he was known to be extremely smart, and is still revered in modern-day Japan as a folk hero. Master Nomi translates the Ancient Stone into a metaphoric compass of enlightenment and peak performance—a step-by-step transformational journey to Total Mental FitnessR through two important books: the 794-page treatise The Ten Paradoxes and the popular Where's My Zen? parable. The outcome—experiencing enlightenment, living in the Now, and achieving peak performance—is more accessible than ever before.Harrison lives with his daughters, Chelsea and Allix, and their little Boxer, Kokoa, in their Zen-inspired urban retreat.