Training with a Mysterious Master is not a self-help book, a meditation manual, or a promise of hidden abilities. It is a personal account of what unfolded over years of ordinary practice, unexpected encounters, and a series of experiences that ranged from quietly absurd to deeply unsettling.

The story moves between the mundane and the inexplicable without warning: cups of tea, public toilets, long periods of boredom, and moments that resist easy explanation. Familiar ideas from meditation, internal cultivation, and traditional medicine appear along the way — not as systems to adopt, but as lenses through which certain experiences made sense at the time.

As the narrative unfolds, the boundaries of the ordinary begin to thin. Events occur that do not fit comfortably within psychological, cultural, or conventional spiritual frameworks, and no effort is made to resolve that tension. The reader is left to decide how literally — or metaphorically — any of it should be taken.

This book does not offer techniques, conclusions, or reassurance. It asks only for attention — to what is written, and to what arises while reading it. Some readers will laugh, others will doubt it entirely, and a few may feel unsettled without quite knowing why.

All of those responses are appropriate.

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