<p><i>One Essence</i> is a modern commentary on the nondual teachings of a classical Zen text. </p> <p>It is also a collection of Zen wisdom and poetry, containing the 67 stanzas of the <i>Hsin Hsin Ming</i> (with multiple alternative translations), plus many other succinct spiritual verses from ancient and contemporary Zen sources. </p> <p>The concise, powerful verses of the <i>Hsin Hsin Ming</i> have been translated repeatedly over the ages, and been the subject of many commentaries in the attempt to understand its simplicity and subtlety. Here, Robert Wolfe, the author of <i>Living Nonduality: Enlightenment Teachings of Self-Realization</i>, provides a modern, nondual look at this ancient Zen-Taoist poem. </p> <p>All thirty of its quatrains are provided along with a contemporary nondual interpretation as well as selections from other Zen and Taoist teaching poems. </p> <p>Also included is a short story by Robert Wolfe, "In Death as in Life," envisioning the last days of the Buddha and his nondual teachings.</p>