Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains explores the life of passionate commitment that lies at the heart of the formal practice of Zen meditation. Written with the Zen master, as well as the Zen novice, in mind, it is a collection of dharma talks given by Reb Anderson, former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. In comprehensible, inclusive language, Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains draws on Anderson's thirty-year experience as a Zen priest exploring Buddhist yoga and psychology and the relationship of wisdom and compassion to the personal, social and ecological crises of our time.