A novel about the causes of happiness and the secrets of enlightenment and Zen, set in the Zen Forest.

The book about the Zen Forest Retreat, a Zen Buddhist center in Canada, providing traditional yet distinctly Western Zen training to people of all ages and religious backgrounds. Â

"Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell," they say. Would you like to remain attached to that belief?

A hockey memoir in poetry from the Cold War to the present in Canada, the USA, the USSR, and China, from Gravenhurst, Muskoka, to Dalian, featuring the big themes -- love and death.

Canadian author Martin Avery, living in China, challenges Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Mo Yan to a novel marathon!

The true story about meetings with a Zen Buddhist monk and Zen master who wanted to write a book about a short-cut to enlightenment in the Zen Forest and what happened right after.

This book is designed to go with the Zen Power Hour workshops which combine Zen meditation, Zen massage like Reiki self-healing massage, Zen energy exercises like qigong, and Zen writing like freefall, plus reclining, sleeping, and walking meditation.

Zen Forest Haiku:100 Haiki And One Long Poem About The Zen IdiotBy: M. Avery