Maurine Stuart was one of a select group of students on the leading edge of Buddhism in America--a woman who became a Zen master. In this book, she draws on down-to-earth Zen stories, her friendships with Japanese Zen teachers, and her experiences as a concert pianist to apply the inner meanings of Buddhism to practicing the basic ethics of daily living--nowness, unselfishness, compassion, and good will toward every living being.
Maurine Stuart was a princial American student of Soen Nakagawa Roshi. An accomplished concert pianist as well as a Zen master, she was the guiding teacher of the Cambridge Buddhist Association in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the years since her death in 1990, her reputation as a teacher of great practicality, humor, and compassion has grown far beyond her original circle of students.