Author Description

Ikigai is the unique Japanese way of living life with purpose. This book shows for the first time, with genuine insight, how the Japanese themselves strive to achieve this, all from the perspective of the monk Ok-a-da. This is a short guide written deliberately so because living life with a purpose does not require many different steps. Like many aspects of life, it is doing a few things very well and consistently. The book also corrects a number of errors that other authors make when attempting to bring the concept to a non-Japanese audience, errors that will send people down the wrong path.This uplifting little book provides an easy to follow guide, all packed into easy-to-digest chapters, and will give you the confidence to change your life for the better.O-ka-da lives on Sanuki Hiroshima, an island paradise in the Seto Inland Sea. Graham Thomas, who has co-authored and translated O-ka-da's writings lives a few miles away on another island. Together they have concentrated on the aspects of ikigai that will make a difference in the reader's life. They also highlight that ikigai is not about finding a purpose in life but living life with purpose: an important difference. Please enjoy it.