Choro-An Nyogen Senzaki Dai Osho. The American Bodhidharma. A mushroom
monk. Hidden away. A man who wanted no titles. Nyogen Senzaki. He came here
and he stayed. He was the first Zen monk to stay. He was the best. And what
he began, east and west, continues to bloom and surprise.

The way he spoke can be felt in the cadences of his writing. (Many live who
knew him. Wire recordings made of him and Soen Nakagawa Roshi survive.) So
there is something vivid in how he wrote. And what he had to say is clear,
direct and comprehensible, if you practice.

Along with some of his talks, you will find translations he made of the
poems of Jakushitsu. And you will find Nyogen Senzaki's own beautiful and
simple, not-so-simple poems.

Decades after his death, when his ashes were mixed with Soen Roshi's at one
of Roshi's 1984 memorial services, a student of Nyogen Senzaki's, George
Lamplighter, said, "Nyogen Senzaki told me something profoundly shocking.
And I remain shocked."
Shocking or no, you may find something remarkable if you follow what you
find when you read "Like A Dream, Like A Fantasy."