Phantom Buddha is a portrait of the experiences of a man not quite
made for this conventional world, beginning with his dead-end job
in an insurance company for nine long years, which the author
describes with a wicked humor. Married, with four children, he
meets and falls in love with another woman and leaves his family to
be with her, finding the freedom to be himself he so yearns for.
But, when he introduces his new love to the zen practice that has
long interested him, she becomes totally involved, both in the
practice and with the Japanese zen master who uses his position to
seduce many of his female students. Forced out of the zen center
when he expresses his unhappiness with this situation, he sinks
into despair and a hopeless pursuit of his beloved. Written in some
parts with broad humor, Cardona-Hine also captures the ephemeral
beauty of a new love and the depths of despair at its loss. Based
on real events, the author intertwines dreams that he had during
these years, dreams which reveal to an even greater extent the
emotional intensity of his situation as well as the states of mind
that sweep through him. Intensely written and felt, the novel
shimmers with an authenticity and passion seldom seen in writing
today.
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