As an undergraduate I studied Buddhism with Taitetsu Unno, a Pure Land Buddhist priest and professor of Buddhist studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Professor Unno brought Joshu Sasaki Roshi to lead Zen retreats on campus. It was at these retreats that I first met Roshi and his jikijitsu or directing monk, the Jewish songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen whose Buddhist name was Jikan/Noble Silence. There and then, this book began … 7 Principles of a Jewish/Zen Mind You are not only a smaller self with sensing, feeling, thinking, and doing—you are also the Greater Self beyond all sensing, feeling, thinking, and doing. You are not only the name you carry, but the Unnamed that carries you. You are to this world what a wave is to the ocean that waves it: a precious and never-to-be-repeated happening of the One happening as all happening. You are a way the One laughs and weeps and loves and suffers. You are a way the One knows itself as the many. You are a way the One knows itself as each part. And one day you will be a way the part comes to know itself as the One. You have had