Publisher's Synopsis
On a warm summer evening in the American countryside a car pulls into the driveway of a small Buddhist temple. The driver is a young man named Gene who has come to visit the redoubtable monk Bhikku Tissa. Gene has a problem weighting on his mind. Having passed a birthday, he has become aware that he has been frittering his life away on trivial matters, getting older without becoming wiser. Does life have any higher meaning or purpose beyond the everyday round of working, and pleasure seeking?
