No Way (For The Spiritually Advanced)

Ram Tzu says Ram Tzu is accessible from many levels of misunderstanding. Serious students of enlightenment are in for a wild ride with this little book. The ironic appeal of the subtitle For The Spiritually Advanced barely hints at how little Ram Tzu is impressed by individual spiritual achievement. The 97 free verse poems in No Way are incredibly funny but for seekers they may also seem paradoxical heretical penetrating and insightful. If you re lucky you ll recognize yourself in its pages - it s good to see when you ve been taking yourself a little too seriously. One minute you ll howl with laughter at people s pretenses and the next you ll squirm self-consciously as Ram Tzu gleefully points out that you like the fabled emperor also wear no clothes. This widely quoted book is guaranteed not to produce any self-improvement in you at all. It has original line drawings by Ted Kingdon and in Wayne Liquormans Introduction he claims not to know who Ram Tzu really is but don t you believe it.