In this book Norma Levine compiled over 100 stories by many individuals of what the Karmapa taught them, not in big lectures, but personally. The 16th Karmapa also performed many amazing miracles. To give an example one story i heard from his long time secretary was that the Karmapa was asked to find an incarnation of a particular lama. The Karmapa explained where to find the young boy and his monks went, but couldn't find. So they came back and said they couldn't find and the Karmpapa picked up a stick and hit a dog that went running out of the room to everyone's shock. Then the Karmapa shouted, "follow that dog." The monks followed the dog for three days and the dog when right into a house and there was the reincarnation.

Anyway, this book is so valuable because it tells the story of a truely enlightened Buddhist teacher based on personal encounters with the teacher and not on lectures.