Zen Fiction

A collection of Zen stories to amuse and illuminate. Includes all the stories from classic Zen literature: 101 Zen Stories, The Gateless Gate, The Ten Bulls and Centering. Includes the soundtrack The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo - a 43 minute collection of Zen inspired Japanese music by The Matsu Take Ensemble.

When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental - until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione d'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related?

Pèlerinage mortel à Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle. Avocat du crime organisé, Björn Diemel a décidé de recourir à la méditation de pleine conscience pour retrouver la paix intérieure. C'est aujourd'hui chose faite. Il a éliminé, souvent au sens propre, tous ceux qui lui causaient du stress. Désormais à la tête de la mafia locale, il peut jouir en paix de sa situation. Mais un " incident " fâcheux lors de son anniversaire finit de convaincre son thérapeute que Björn n'a pas encore tout à fait lâché prise.

Il n'y a guère de métier plus éprouvant pour les nerfs que celui d'avocat de la mafia. Björn Diemel en sait quelque chose. Par bonheur, il a trouvé une solution pour en finir avec le stress et l'anxiété qui minaient son quotidien : la méditation de pleine conscience. À l'aide d'un coach, il a ainsi réussi à faire ses premiers pas sur le chemin du bien-être. Et aujourd'hui, tant sa vie professionnelle que ses relations avec sa femme et sa fille se sont nettement améliorées.

After his adventures in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment - to release the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family.

Neopolitan businessmen, politicians, and eminent mafiosi are assassinated as someone takes literally the job of cleaning up the city's tarnished image. In this mystery, Aurelio Zen discovers that in '90s 'New Italy', things are still the same.

Two friends in 1950s San Francisco Bohemia explore Buddhism Zen - hipster style. On the road to finding Dharma, or truth, the story's narrator, Raymond Smith comes to a spiritual roadblock. Smith, based on Kerouac himself, discovers a role model in his friend Japhy Ryder, modeled after the real poet-Buddhist Gary Snyder. This autobiographical novel is one of Kerouac's most popular, and has served as an inspiration to the beat culture, hippies, and dharma seekers since the 1950s.

The story of a dance with the divine. This book is number four of the tales of Zen and her travels.

In Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury’s love for his craft shines. With signature wisdom, wit, and verve, Bradbury delves into his prolific writing career, exploring the creation of countless stories, novels, plays, movies, and more that have stood the test of time. Written over a thirty-year period, these inspirational essays insist that there is a “deep well of explosive self-revelation” in all of us waiting to be released through the process of writing.

With the help of Simon, an advanced AI, Junior CIA Analyst Simon Manchester embarks on an exhilarating mission to save the agency from itself. Will he complete his mission in time, or cause the very chaos he wishes to avoid? The Simon Says Trilogy begins.

大宋很文雅，大宋也曾富庶；正因如此，大宋有很多被人误解的另一面。大宋王朝三百年，风云变幻常如许？……大宋很文雅，大宋也曾富庶；正因如此，大宋有很多被人誤解的另一面。大宋王朝三百年，風雲變幻常如許？

Millennial students, pandemics, smart friends, a smart society, with smart stuff on wrists and in pockets, all closely monitored by aggressive algorithms that know everything about everyone. Ernest is in the middle of it all—behind the times, and clueless, while searching for his mid-life groove in the 21st Century. With a too-smart son, an ice-cold wife, and a sham teaching job, his real problems increase exponentially when he crosses paths with an evil rich dude with connections to a secret world order. When Professor Ernest Maltby is stressed, confused, and uptight…

La pleine conscience : pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Vous êtes anxieux, tendu, surmené ? Vous êtes décidé à lever le pied, à prendre enfin du temps pour vous ? La méditation de pleine conscience est ce qu'il vous faut. Sous la pression de sa femme excédée d'avoir à supporter un mari trop stressé, Björn Diemel a résolu de sauter le pas et de consulter un coach. Il espère mettre fin aux tensions qui l'habitent et retrouver la paix intérieure.

Swiss equestrian William "Zen" Griegg skyrockets to the top of the European show jumping circuit. As he sets his sights on the 2000 Olympic Games, his beloved horse Tiger is abducted en route to a competition in the United States. Zen's father, Sigmund Griegg, again teams with American Alana Eastwood to solve an international mystery that leads them from a secret tunnel in the Owl Mountains of Poland, through the art galleries of Zürich, to the Hamilton Farm Equestrian Center in Gladstone, New Jersey.

It is a constant practice to not get stuck in the language or forms of Zen training. The precepts, wisdom, higher states of meditation - these are all concepts that need to be let go of. Don’t turn your Zen practice into a nest, a workshop, a medicine cabinet or a make-up kit. True realization is traceless. It has nothing to do with your ideas about it. Even at the top of a hundred-foot pole, there’s nowhere else to go but forward.

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.

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.

En las vísperas del año 2061, los espejos negros descienden para ocupar las principales ciudades del mundo. Con ellos llega la tecnología del Zen'nō a la Tierra, junto con su promesa de "perfección": cuerpos destrozados por la hiperrealidad, seres que habitan dimensiones hechas de vóxeles, espíritus que mueren y renacen en la búsqueda del Nirvana bioluminiscente.

7 Tage zur Erleuchtung. Nordische Mythologie, Trolle, Formwandler, 8-beinige Pferde und mitten drin,... Shay Bellamy, die 25-jährige Tochter eines Londoner Multimillionärs, die am Scheideweg ihres Lebens steht. Nachdem ihr Vater bei einem tragischen Flugzeugunglück ums Leben gekommen war, hinterlässt er nicht nur ein gewaltiges Erbe, sondern auch eine junge Frau, die sich in einer Welt wiederfindet, in der Selfies mehr zählen als Selbstfindung.

In Metairie, Louisiana, a young woman revels in the solitary exercise that is riding in an elevator, as across town, a father attempts to pedal his way back into his childhood via a late-night bike ride in his quiet suburban neighborhood. Meanwhile, a young executive climbs the corporate ladder through the strangest of mind-bending means as just moments earlier, a lonely man awakens in his car to the fact that he may have the latent impulses and instincts of a serial killer. If only they knew just how interconnected their seemingly different timelines will become.