Philip Kapleau an American business man found himself at a crossroads in his life in the early 1950′s. Kapleau was bright and successful but he felt empty and no matter how he looked at his life he was not happy and so he sold all his possessions and sailed for Japan. Philip Kapleau shares with us in The Three Pillars of Zen his eye opening journey to a land whose language he did not speak where he went to study Zen which he knew almost nothing about. In The Three Pillars of Zen, Kapleau takes us along as his understanding of Zen and himself grows, he also highlights the stories of other westerners and their experiences of understanding Zen. The book is compelling and straight forward, a must read.
