num_pages: 256
description: Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs 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 from the warm Pacific to 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.
language: English
title: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea
publisher: Wisdom Publications