Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story,
The Book of the Book
is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: 'When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.'
When the book first appeared in English thirty-five years ago, its printers questioned how it could be a book, as did reviewers, scholars, and people who paid money to buy it.
is now in its seventh impression, and is studied at university level, appreciated by all for its simple brilliance.