Many Ways, Middle Way, No Way: A Guide to Meditation, Spiritual Awakening And Fun

'An eccentric, irreverent, humorous, open-hearted, historical, non-sectarian, personal, poetic and playful guide to meditaiton and eastern spirituality. Michael Attie will help you smile your way to enlightenment.' --Maureen Draper--The Nature of Music(Riverhead)

Michael Attie has been a student of Zen and Viassana Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta for over 40 years. In the sixties and seventies he joined the Western pilgrimage to Asia, residing in Japanese Zen Monasteries and Indian Ashrams. In 1973 the revered Indian Guru, Neem Karoli Baba told him to teach Dharma in the West. Ever since then he has been pursuing his Guru's instructions through a variety of mediums, always emphasizing the recurrent theme that one need look no farther than the current circumstances of one's life for spiritual inspiration.After Michael returned to America and inherited Playmates of Hollywood, he performed the Lingerie Zen Review to packed houses to celebrate his dual life as meditator and panty salesman. A few years later Michael performed the Zen Opera Show around California, celebrating opera-mania as a shortcut to spiritual enlightenment.Michael founded and owns Dharmabanners, a company that designs and markets prayer flags in English, of all the world's spiritual traditions. He is also a songwriter and plays the accordion with the PujaToons. They are currently recording a CD of origional dharma songs.Michael currently resides in Los Angeles where he founded and teaches Dharma at the Don't Worry Zendo.