Jim Harris, musician and professor of philosophy, first meets Gene Wagner, Buddhist priest, Rolfer, and unrelenting challenger of assumptions, at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1983. The two immediately launch a decades-long friendship andtogether explore Buddhist philosophy, healing, self-discovery, and wisdom. In this memoir, Harris describes his awakening to self-realization and self-acceptance as the two wrestle with the challenges of living and with the eternal question: Are you ready to die?
