Download or read book A Western Approach to Zen written by Christmas Humphreys and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1999-11-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satori is a stage along the way, a gateless gate that must be entered on the path to enlightenment. With profound inspiration and consummate compassion, the founder of the Buddhist Society in London invites serious students of spiritual evolution to use Western techniques to achieve satori, the experience of unity and divinity in all aspects of being. Humphreys refocuses the wisdom of Zen for the Western reader and illuminates the arduous path to enlightenment.