Master Nomi

Paul Harrison AIA, a Los Angeles architect, has researched, practiced, and experienced many of the mystical teachings of the ancient Zen masters. These secrets of "No Mind" hold knowledge of enlightenment, peak performance, mysticism, and death. Now Harrison has given voice to an alter ego, Master Nomi, to finally share the teachings—as the story goes—revealed by the enigmatic Ancient Stone and the old scrolls that contain the Ten Paradoxes.

Harrison modeled Master Nomi after the 14th century Zen master Ikkyu (ee-cue), one of the notable Zen rebels and radicals who became known as the Crazy Clouds. Ikkyu was an unrelenting advocate of enlightenment through sexuality--the Red Thread of Zen. Despite his reputation for mischief, he was known to be extremely smart, and is still revered in modern-day Japan as a folk hero.