Phantom BuddhaPhantom Buddha is a portrait of the experiences of a man not quite made for this conventional world, beginning with his dead end job in an insurance company for nine long years, which the author describes with a wicked humor. Married, with four children, he meets and falls in love with another woman and leaves his family to be with her, finding the freedom to be himself he so yearns for. But, when he introduces his new love to the zen practice that