When Viktor Frankl presented his concepts of logotherapy to American audi ences, he was told that they offered a new approach to mental health, at least as compared to psychoanalysis. But, he recalls, "on my tours in Asia, in India and Japan, I was told... that what I was saying were old truths one might find in the ancient Vedas, in Zen, or in the writings of Lao Tzu."1 I have tried for a long time to identify the old truths that are similar in the healing approaches of logotherapy and the Eastern religions. I finally turned to Huston Smith's The Religions of Man to find some answers.2 With the consent of Smith, who is familiar with logotherapy and who made a filmed interview with Frankl, I am offering some aspects of what might be called the "Eastern" roots of logotherapy.3