The Pursuit of Happiness: a summary of Knowledge of the Self in Nine Volumes.

What should one expect from this book?

This work is the record of the process of overcoming unhappiness and the attainment of satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana.

One should expect from this book a description of the process.

One should expect the process to produce the effect of overcoming unhappiness.

And one must realize that this book and its description is unable to produce the effect of overcoming unhappiness.

The reader is the process, creator, follower, leader, teacher, student, cause and effect of the process.

This work is meant to give a hint of what that process is, but the process of overcoming unhappiness one must perform one's self.

The book is different from the process. The process is something one does on one's own.

The book describes the process.

The process produces the effect.

Therefore, one must be aware when reading this book not to expect the reading and words to produce the effect of overcoming unhappiness.

No reading of a book in a few hours will produce the effect of overcoming unhappiness. It may help, then again it may not.

If one has the desire and determination to create, grow through and succeed in the process of overcoming unhappiness, then one does not need this book or any other book.

For if one has that desire one will find the way.

The result of the process of overcoming unhappiness and the attainment of satisfaction, happiness, nirvana and parinirvana depends entirely on the desire to overcome unhappiness. Without that desire books are futile and meaningless.