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.