May 8, 2009

Ancient Antidotes for Timeless Troubles

By STEPHEN T. ASMA

In Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge, the main character, Larry, leaves behind the rat race of the stockbroker's life and explores the East in search of meaning. When his millionaire friend, Gray, loses everything in the Wall Street crash of 1929, Larry finds him physically and spiritually destroyed. Gray is incapacitated by migraines, cannot even get out of bed most days, and must sit by helplessly as his family falls on hard times. Larry visits him, bringing secret Buddhist and

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