How To Die Laughing A Short Cut To Enlightenment Through The Zen Forest

The true story about meetings with a Zen Buddhist monk and Zen master who wanted to write a book about a short-cut to enlightenment in the Zen Forest and what happened right after.

A novel about a father and son reunion. The son was raised by two women. One of the women became a man. The father went away for a decade to study New Age healing and Zen, and returned when the boy was just about ready for high school. They spend an amazing, incredible, healing summer together in Canada.

One man's journey across the heartland of Canada, from Georgian Bay to the Zen Forest, in search of healing. He travels through Muskoka and the Kawarthas, interviews a Zen Master and a New Age guru, gets the Oneness Blessing, and finds a short-cut to enlightenment.

Canadian author Martin Avery, living in China, challenges Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Mo Yan to a novel marathon!

A hockey memoir in poetry from the Cold War to the present in Canada, the USA, the USSR, and China, from Gravenhurst, Muskoka, to Dalian, featuring the big themes -- love and death.

Dalian: A Long Poem is a celebration of the city Canadian poet Martin Avery considers the most underrated city in the world.

Past And Future Lives In China is Love And Death In China: Book Two and The Sequel To "The Way Of The Dragon" by Martin Avery