Murder My Shadows

Sometimes life’s most profound lessons come to us not from books and formal study, but in a comment of a friend, or observed in one’s surroundings. For Sathi the friend’s name was Kyou (Kee-yo’) and his surroundings were that of a displaced drifter.

Sathi first meets Kyou in a monastery somewhere in Asia. Kyou is a bit of a misfit and eventually is asked to leave the order. But during his time there, he makes an impression on the other monastics – especially Sathi. Sathi makes the decision to set out to find Kyou, and becomes his good friend and companion. He is so inspired by conversations he shares with Kyou, that he begins to write down thoughts expressed by his friend, which would become the collection of sayings that make up this book.

What Sathi wrote down might have been lost forever if not for the accidental discovery of his grave during a gold seeking expedition thousands of years later. Lost and forgotten again for hundreds of years, now they have been rediscovered and translated fulfilling his desire that the thoughts of his friend might be known.