Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.

"A journalist, photographer, surfer and Zen Master, Yogis began the life of a roving seeker his junior year of high school, when he ran away from his Sacramento, Calif. home to learn how to surf in Hawaii. His subsequent travels include a handful of prime surfing spots, but Yogis's more arresting journey is spiritual, taking him to monasteries in France and Berkley, Calif., and deep into the living tradition of Zen Buddhism. Captured here in short chapters and wonderful, visual prose, Yogis's coming-of-age odyssey also takes readers into the culture of indigenous Hawaiians, who believe the gods were surfers. Yogis's long-time surfing mentor Rom provides insight into the science of surfing, ocean swells, the bathymetry of the continental shelf, deep water canyons and sea mounts. Even land lovers will find Yogis's lessons resonant and entertaining, but surfers will find this a quick, surprisingly deep tribute to the quest for surf and serenity." - Publisher's Weekly"

有记者，摄影师，冲浪者和禅师，修行者开始了一个巡回搜索他的高中生活，当他跑到离他萨克拉门托，加利福尼亚州家中了解如何在夏威夷冲浪三年级。他随后的行程包括少数素冲浪点，但修行者的逮捕旅程更是精神，把他在法国和伯克利加州寺院，进入禅宗的活的传统和深厚。简短的章节中捕获和精彩，视觉散文这里，修行者的到来，年龄奥德赛还考虑到了夏威夷土著人，谁相信神是冲浪文化的读者。修行者的长期指导ROM提供上网冲浪到科学洞察力，海洋膨胀，对大陆架水深，峡谷和海洋深层水的坐骑。即使土地爱好者会发现修行者的教训共振和娱乐性，但浏览者会觉得这是一个快速，令人惊讶的深切敬意的冲浪和宁静的追求。" 出版商周刊