An Ancient Path is a collection of transcribe talks by Paul R. Fleischman which he has given in Europe and in the US. The talks stand side by side, all having the same center, reached from different angles. The Boston talk was to mental health professionals in the USA. The Freiberg talk was given to ?Mindfulness? researchers in Germany. The Madrid talk was given in a hospital, and the Vienna talk was given to an audience with a pre-existing, intellectual knowledge of Buddhism. ? In Ghent Paul was asked to speak to an University audience with at more philosophical background.