The Mountain Peak Is Where I Am

The true journey is not done with the feet, but with the heart and the soul. For millenniums, men and women have crossed boarders, navigated the seas and climbed mountains, and many of them have sought not only the adventure of different and exciting landscapes, but also have been interested in what they would discover about themselves. The internal journey should be long, profound, and subject to uncertainty. (…) Petrucio Chalegre, renowned consultant to companies, knows very well the eye of the ordinary man, having actively participated, for decades, in the business world, with all of its passions and ambitions, competition and suffering; and then later as a consultant, he has been responsible for bringing a new state of needed equilibrium. Gensho, the monk of Zen Buddhism, has practiced the path of Buddhism also for decades and led a community devoted to the discipline and beauty of this Japanese form of Buddhism. Now the two join to write a book about a common man, Ido, someone just like any one of us, evolved in the paths of the world, with its joys and difficulties, but who, one day, decides to leave it. (…) We will walk along with him, living with him in the Zen Buddhist environment of tranquility and challenge, participating in his new daily activities as he attempts to change his life. Along the way, we will have the opportunity to know the daily activities of a Buddhist community, from dawn to the hour of going to sleep. We will hear guidance and wise statements from the superiors of the monastery, and we will know how Ido will be able to overcome difficulties. Even more importantly, we will be able to journey with Ido to our own interior and take the first steps toward transcendence.