Goal in Progress

<p>In <em>Goal in Progress: The Detours and Diversions of a Spiritual Journey</em> an American Buddhist monk describes his eclectic non-linear spiritual journey and his ongoing attempts to clarify the goal of his quest.</p><p><br></p><p>Beginning with his early search during the late 1970s followed by a prolonged residence in West Berlin he goes on to articulate the monastic journey he embarked on at the age of fifty-four. After initially entering into Buddhist monastic life in Bodhgaya India and subsequently ordaining as a novice monk in Dharamsala with His Holiness the Dalai Lama he resides as a monastic in a Tibetan monastery in France monasteries of the Thai Forest tradition in England a Benedictine monastery in Michigan and a Greek Orthodox monastery in Ohio. He finally re-ordains as a Theravada Buddhist monk in Malaysia.</p><p><br></p><p>The author comes to see that his goal though firmly rooted in Buddhist thought has been enriched by his significant detours into Christianity and Judaism.</p>