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Jarvis Jay Masters has taken an extraordinary journey of faith. Strangely enough, his moment of enlightenment came behind the bars of San Quentin's death row. In this compelling memoir, inmate and author Jarvis Jay Masters takes us from the arms of his heroin-addicted mother to an abusive foster home, on his escape to the illusory freedom of the streets and through lonely nights spent in bus stations and juvenile homes, and finally to life ins...

Jarvis Jay Masters wächst in von Hass und Gewalt geprägten Verhältnissen auf. Als Jugendlicher kommt er wegen bewaffneten Raubüberfalls 1981 in das berüchtigte Staatsgefängnis San Quentin in Kalifornien, 1990 wird er wegen Beihilfe zum Mord an einem Gefängniswärter zum Tode verurteilt und sitzt seit mehr als 30 Jahren im Todestrakt, obwohl er bis heute seine Unschuld beteuert. Im Gefängnis beginnt er zu meditieren und unter Anleitung des bekan...

A remarkable story of personal transformation and spiritual awakening from a Buddhist man on death row.There are many forms of liberation--some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters from death-row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, he explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals the life of a you...

In 1990, then-23-year-old African-American Jarvis was sentenced to death in the state of California. Using the only instrument available to him--a ball-point pen filler--Jarvis has written an astounding memoir that is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the talent of a fine writer.