This book is a guide that qualifies you to achieve comprehensive ease and true happiness through what is called the Eightfold Path. Psychotherapist and Zen teacher Koshin Paley Ellison compassionately guides readers through these eight paths, until they reach a path of transformation and experience true happiness. By combining Eastern and Western wisdom traditions, Paley Ellison provides readers with the tools necessary to break free from our limitations and bring about profound change, both internally and externally. This guide is rich with Paley Ellison's stories of his life as a child facing abuse and discrimination, and it will help you make a significant change in your daily interactions and close relationships, and provide you with a path to social healing. It is an ancient remedy that rises to the challenge of treating the modern dysfunction of our age.