Chapter Twenty - The Door - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Poetic Principle - A master of poetic language on the higher reaches of the art. In The Door, the author returns to Korea, to the monastery where he did the haengja training a decade before, and something… happens. The bumper music is Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth + Early Live - Where The Red Fern Grows.

Chapter Twenty-One - Everything That Has Been Lost Is Gained - In the final chapter ofThe Zen Revolution, H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from both The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, Albert Camus and Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters, Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English before bounding aboard a train, to his retreat cabin in Louisiana. He exits with a few important words sure to leave their mark. The bumper music is Thelonious Monk -Thelonious Alone in San Francisco - Pannonica.

Essay One - The Impostor - H. Grevemberg walks the streets of San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles, meets with both a Zen Sword Master and Christian Minister - an incandescent reading full of fire and pitch, the dharma of the streets. The series opens with the first case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - No Question and Answer for the Primary Meaning - an unpublished manuscript from 1965.

Essay Two - The Real Cure - H. Grevemberg illustrates the problems of perception and answers a few listener questions after reading the 2nd case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’sRoad to Enlightenment - Mind Transference - an unpublished manuscript from 1965.

Essay Three - The Collective - H. Grevemberg looks into the nature of existence, and ponders why so few of us question it, after reading the 3rd case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - Buddha’s Dharma is Like This - an unpublished manuscript from 1965.

Essay Four - Power - H. Grevemberg explores the power structure of society and illustrates more of the life of a sage while going for a long walk at night. The show opens with a brief excerpt from Agememnon’s Aeschylus and the 4th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - Dialogue With a Non-Buddhist Scholar - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The bumper music is Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room - The Diamond Sea.

Essay Five - Chaos - H. Grevemberg digs beneath the surface of chaos to reveal the underlying pattern - substance. The show opens with the 5th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - Vimalakirti’s Illness - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The bumper music is The Jesus & Mary Chain - Reverence (Promo) - Reverence (Jim & William Reid Mix).

Essay Six - The Ground - A fiery look at the whole of practice life, of crossing the plane of existence. The show opens with the 6th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - Knock Down the Flagpole in Front of the Gate - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The chanting is Korean Buddhist monk Won Yul Sunim leading at Tae Go Sa in the Mojave Desert, the desert monastery featured in The Zen Revolution.

Essay Seven - Guns, Germs, and Steel - A condensed look at the major flow of this great work from Jared Diamond. The show opens with the 7th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - The Nature of No Creation, No Annihilation - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The bumper music is Yolando Be Cool & DCUP - We No Speak Americano.

Essay Eight - Ego and the Long Retreat - A live recording from a talk given at Dharma Zen Center in Los Angeles on October 24, 2010. The show opens with the 8th case of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s Road to Enlightenment - The Rib-Honored One and the Young Man - an unpublished manuscript from 1965. The bumper music is Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room - Beautiful Plateau.