Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea Cover
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Saltwater Buddha A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

Jaimal Yogis

Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's

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This book was described as a coming-of-age story detailing the author running away at 16, buying a one-way ticket to Maui to surf, joining a monastery, almost becoming a Zen monk, and then starting a journalism career.

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He wrote a book a couple years ago called Saltwater Buddha and it's a new one called All Our Waves Are Water.

— Episode: Jaimal Yogis, A Surfer's Quest for Zen

Episode: Jaimal Yogis, A Surfer's Quest for Zen

This book was described as a coming-of-age story detailing the author running away at 16, buying a one-way ticket to Maui to surf, joining a monastery, almost becoming a Zen monk, and then starting a journalism career.

"

He wrote a book a couple years ago called Saltwater Buddha and it's a new one called All Our Waves Are Water.

I ran away. So on milk carton type of thing? Like a one way ticket to Maui. That's what I did.

I picked up a little Tick-Not-Hon book and we should say who he is. A Vietnamese Zen master.

Episode: Jaimal Yogis, A Surfer's Quest for Zen

This was the author's first memoir, detailing a coming-of-age story where he ran away at 16 to Maui to surf, join a monastery, almost become a Zen monk, and eventually launch a journalism career.

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He wrote a book a couple years ago called Saltwater Buddha and it's a new one called All Our Waves Are Water.

I ran away from home. How old were you when you ran away from home? I was 16. Wow. Really ran away. I ran away. So on milk carton type of thing? Like a one way ticket to Maui. That's what I did.

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