Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

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Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.

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Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.

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A journalist, photographer, surfer and Zen Master, Yogis began the life of a roving seeker his junior year of high school, when he ran away from his Sacramento, Calif. home to learn how to surf in Hawaii. His subsequent travels include a handful of prime surfing spots, but Yogis's more arresting journey is spiritual, taking him to monasteries in France and Berkley, Calif., and deep into the living tradition of Zen Buddhism. Captured here in short chapters and wonderful, visual prose, Yogis's coming-of-age odyssey also takes readers into the culture of indigenous Hawaiians, who believe the gods were surfers. Yogis's long-time surfing mentor Rom provides insight into the science of surfing, ocean swells, the bathymetry of the continental shelf, deep water canyons and sea mounts. Even land lovers will find Yogis's lessons resonant and entertaining, but surfers will find this a quick, surprisingly deep tribute to the quest for surf and serenity.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780861715350
  • Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
  • Publication date: 5/1/2009
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 200
  • Sales rank: 220,999
  • Product dimensions: 4.90 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 9, 2010

    Real Chill

    This book is reader-friendly but still has a deep message about spirtuality and finding oneself. I love the main character because he is so free & honest about his feelings. I would recommend this book to both younger and older generations because it is never too late to open your mind and body to new experiences!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 7, 2009

    Advanced Praise for Saltwater Buddha

    "Jaimal Yogis has done, in this terrific first book, what every artist
    and writer strives to do: he has made something beautiful and
    universal from the particulars of his own life. He writes well about
    surfing; he writes well about Buddhism; he writes well about what it
    feels like to be a person; but mostly, he just writes well. Yogis¿s
    sentence are clean, clear, and disciplined, and his story-telling
    instincts are strong, so strong that this book will surely find the
    audience it deserves¿among surfers, among seekers, and among those
    who enjoy being swept along on a curious ride."
    Daniel Duane, author of Caught Inside: a surfer's year on the California Coast

    "Jaimal Yogis starts off as an Everyteen with two deep hungers: to learn surfing and to calm his mind. And his simple, amused, deadly serious report on how he tries to satisfy those desires may ultimately launch an entirely new breed of memoir: the coming-of-sage story. Yogis' prose is etched yet effortless, a conversation with a friend who pretends to be naïve, but has clearly drunk up so much life experience that you trust his authority as a truth-telling more than you know. He rocked me happily for chapters as he recounted his journey from Atlantic island to California suburb to a series of beach towns (including, memorably, Brooklyn). But each time I was lulled, I always was also on edge, wondering if bigger surf may be coming. Indeed, it was: several moving, sharp-edged episodes - sets, really - that will stay vivid in my mind for a long, long time."
    Bruce Kelley, editor-in-chief, San Francisco Magazine

    "Saltwater Buddha is a wryly told, compelling nonfiction saga of a young
    man's apprenticeship in breaking waves and the deep, still waters of
    Buddhism. A pilgrim's progress, this attractively self-deprecating narrative
    makes no grandiose claims for either the teller¿s surfing or for his soul.
    Still, we perceive, finally, that surfing becomes him as does writing.
    Saltwater Buddha will be rich reading for both surfers and spiritual
    seekers, who are, we learn here, sometimes one and the same."
    Thomas Farber, author of The Face of the Deep

    "It's the perfect read for those who love the ocean as much as their yoga mats, or for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual practice that is surfing."
    Karen Macklin, Yoga Journal

    "At sixteen, Jaimal Yogis ran way on a spiritual journey of a magnitude few of us even dream of, to learn to ride the waves of the world's oceans, and the bigger surf within his own mind. As Jaimal gains hard-won spiritual lessons with a teenager's eagerness and a surfer's passion, we cannot help but see our own spiritual life with fresh, beginner¿s eyes. His journey started in nothingness¿at least in a material sense. But it ends in deep riches of spiritual insight, human warmth and humor. The pages kept turning. I couldn't put this book down."
    Michael Ellsberg, author of The Power of Eye Contact (HarperCollins, forthcoming)

    "The quality of Yogis writing is up there with, amongst others, Daniel Duane, Allan Weisbecker, Kem Nunn, Tim Winton etc. Surfers and searchers alike will love it. Out in May 2009. Reserve a copy!"
    Matt Strathern, extremehorizon.blogspot.com

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