I cherished the message, simply didn’t like the configuration it was displayed in. I felt that the writer simply had a rundown of a series of questions and set out to answer every last one of them one by one deliberately, so there wasn’t much story or real pleasure in reading it. The "story" is basically only 2 folks talking over supper, 1 fellow talking(the main Monk), the other gentleman is only there to pose the questions in the middle of the long monologuess and to affirm the Monk’s answers. I felt the listener of the story was really naive, he appeared to simply take everything his monk companion said without inquiry, and we’re persuaded that through one night of lecturing he is enlightened. I would suggest my friends to go for a better book than this.