Zen Fiction

Our story begins on Earth, but an Earth with a past steeped in fantasy and science fiction. From humble beginnings, a boy is given a divine destiny, a chance to make his mark on human civilization, but he must embark upon a life-changing journey. Our hero struggles to understand what he has been given and what to do with it, losing himself in doubt and loneliness as he confronts the dark side of humanity.

In 1979, 24-year-old Maura O'Halloran moved to Japan and became the first woman ever admitted to Toshoji Temple. Soshin-san (O'Halloran's monastic name) labored through three intense years of work and study in preparation for becoming a dharma teacher. Her life ended abruptly during a trip to Thailand, and today Soshin-san is revered as a Buddhist saint. The material in this program is from her private and heartfelt journals and letters.

Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.

待望の江戸川乱歩全集（オーディオブック）！！江戸川乱歩の小説を全集にし、全3巻にまとめたボリューム満載の江戸川乱歩全集

日本初！世界初！待望の江戸川乱歩全集（オーディオブック）！！江戸川乱歩の小説を全集にし、全3巻にまとめたボリューム満載の江戸川乱歩全集

日本初！世界初！待望の江戸川乱歩全集（オーディオブック）！！江戸川乱歩の小説を全集にし、全3巻にまとめたボリューム満載の江戸川乱歩全集

Zen is a misanthropic grad student of physics and religion who wants to kill his Self before it kills him—if he can figure out where he ends and it begins. His friend Ellie wants to save him, but he won’t let her into his life. Her ability to surgically remove a soul’s facade with her penetrating, laser-scalpel eyes terrifies him. She’s every broken piece of him that’s missing, but someone would have to die to get them together.

This is the second book in the Zen series in which Zen, Kelek, George, and the others experience the city of Dongor and Count Stark.

This is the fifth book in the Zen and her adventures series and features CQ the mermaid. This book is zany but does not come with a warning and anyone can listen to it. In this book, Zen comes back from being lost and tries to make up her mind as to what to do with all her newfound knowledge, but too many things, internally and externally, prevent her from becoming quiet enough to listen, and the pirates are, of course, no help.

Nori Tanaka is thrilled to be studying abroad in Tokyo, Japan, but it isn't exactly what she had imagined. She expected tranquil gardens and swoopy-roofed houses, not concrete and neon. And everyone assumes that, with her traditional Japanese features, she's a native instead of the naïve...

ある日、札幌にいた有島自身とおぼしき人物である「私」のところに、旧制中学校の制服を着た少年がやってきた。画を見てほしいという。

居酒屋「ぜんや」の馴染み客・升川屋喜兵衛の嫁・志乃が子を宿して、もう七月。「ぜんや」の女将・お妙は、喜兵衛から近ごろ嫁姑の関係がぎくしゃくしていると聞き、志乃を励ましにいくことになった。

家禄を継げない武家の次男坊・林只次郎は、鶯が美声を放つよう飼育するのが得意で、それを生業とし家計を大きく支えている。

寛政三年弥生。預かった鶯を美声に育てて生計を立てる、小禄旗本の次男坊・林只次郎は、その鶯たちの師匠役となる鶯・ルリオの後継のことで頭を悩ませていた。

More madness than than a Three Stooges bake sale. More panic than a Philip K. Dick nightmare. More cheeziness than an Edward D. Wood motion picture. More truth than the Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra. Unstoppable, unbeatable, unquenchably unquenchable. Gill Women of the Prehistoric Planet.

ぜんやに転がりこんできたお転婆姫──只次郎の姪のお栄は大奥に仕えていたのだが、将軍からお手つきとなるのを嫌い、暇を貰って只次郎の許へと逃げていた。家に戻ってもどこぞの武家に嫁がされるに決まっている、と町人となって己の才覚で生きていくことを望むが……。

お花のかどわかし、そして熊吉も長年の同僚であった長吉との騒動が終わりを迎え、ぜんやの周りは少しずつ元の時間が戻りつつあった。だが時は落ち着くことを許してくれず、刻々と進みゆく。

居酒屋「ぜんや」の女将・お妙の父がかつて売っていた薬をもとに作られた「龍気補養丹」を改めて売り出すことになった熊吉。養い子だが、少しずつ養い親の只次郎とお妙に心を開き始めたお花。

「ぜんや」の常連の旦那衆を狙った毒酒騒動。犯行にかつての同僚・長吉が関わっていると確信した熊吉は捜索に走る。一方、長吉に騙されて常連客に毒を出しそうになってしまったお花は、意気消沈。

早い出世を同僚に妬まれている熊吉。養い子故に色々なことを我慢してしまうお花。二人を襲う、様々な試練。それでも、若い二人は温かい料理と人情に励まされ、必死に前を向いて歩きます。