When a young slave girl in a Srinagar brothel first met the wandering teacher Iesous, neither karma nor society suggested she would become one of humanity’s greatest spiritual guides. Yet Mari of Magadha’s journey from exploitation to enlightenment offers profound insights into how divine wisdom flows through our most human experiences.
In this intimate collection, Japanese fish vendor and Wayist teacher Kaori Mizuki presents Mari’s most transformative poems with deeply personal commentary. Through verses that find sacred truth in brothel cells and fishing boats alike, Mari shows us how light enters through our broken places, how wisdom grows in unlikely soil, and how divine love transforms everything it touches.
A history written by people whose teaching says history cannot be written.
Wayism teaches that every teller has an audience, half the facts, and a thumb on the scale. So Where theWay Surfaced does not attempt a chronicle. It follows a single metaphor: the Teaching as a river running mostly underground. No one can map the full course — but here and there a spring opens, people gather, and some of them remember. Each chapter is one such surfacing. Between them lies the underground, the long dark stretches the book does not pretend to know.
In an age of instant wisdom and downloadable enlightenment, Beloved +Yusa (1927-2002) embodied a different way - one of lived truth, practical wisdom, and transformative insight. Born in Turkey as Yerem Nazaryan to a Sufi father and Armenian Christian mother, his life bridged worlds, traditions, and ways of understanding that would shape him into one of Wayism’s most beloved teachers.
This carefully curated collection of his teachings, gathered from ashram talks and intimate conversations, captures the essence of a master who taught not through grand proclamations but through simple observations, gentle humor, and profound insights into the human condition. From his early years in Kurdistan to his final days in India, +Yusa’s wisdom touched thousands of lives, weaving together the spiritual heritage of East and West into a tapestry of practical enlightenment.