Saltwater Buddha : Paperback : Wisdom Publications,U.S. : 9780861715350 : 0861715357 : 01 May 2009 : Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse\'s Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer\'s tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.