About the book: 1996 / Here is an amazing book written by a woman - a Zen Master. Charlotte Yoko Beck offers a difficult but exciting path to relief from suffering. If you look closely at each of us, it will become obvious that under external well-being we all hide terrible anxiety. We don't want to let life take its course. We want to command it, we want life to be only this way and no other. We want and want and want. But life is what it is. She doesn’t care that we consider it difficult, cruel or unfair. “We must come to our senses and realize the fact that we need to do something with life, that we need special classes.” Zen offers such activities. “Zen is not an easy practice. But if you practice consistently, carefully and give your full attention, you will definitely be rewarded. Gradually you will learn to live in the present, in the here-and-now. And enjoy it, even if everything doesn’t go the way you want.” This book can inspire you to begin the long and unexpected journey of liberation.