Zen Fiction

Grazie a questo racconto possiamo immaginare di trovarci realmente in una antichissima cerimonia zen con i suoi molteplici significati dagli aspetti all'apparenza semplici.

Im Job, in der Liebe, im Alltag: Glück ist eine Frage der Lebenskunst. Hundert Geschichten des chinesischen Zen-Meisters aus New York, die zeigen, worauf es ankommt. Was man sich merken und was man am besten vergessen sollte. Worüber man lachen, was man loslassen und wie man weitermachen kann: die Anleitung zum Glücklichsein.

One Essence is a modern commentary on the nondual teachings of a classical Zen text.

It is also a collection of Zen wisdom and poetry, containing the 67 stanzas of the Hsin Hsin Ming (with multiple alternative translations), plus many other succinct spiritual verses from ancient and contemporary Zen sources.

This is extreme examination of fiction books. We take excerpts from popular novels (one page in length) from various chapters and we read them, trying to understand the writer's voice, writing structure, and more. Over time we'll have a clearer definition of how we do our analysis. This book will have notes every now and then. Enjoy! Oh, and if you were wondering, the main purpose of this is to learn how to write better fiction.

Aaron loves Grandma, and while traveling around the world he calls her to say hello in the native language of the country he is visiting. At the end of his journey, Aaron ends up in Grandma's kitchen. Was he really traveling from one country to another, or was it his imagination?

An author writes a book and controls the characters. What happens when the author is actually the character in someone else's book, and that author is my character? Some people's fantasies are other people's realities. And some people are aware while others are not.

Amy was born with a facial flaw. She has a large purple birthmark on one side of her face and has spent her whole life being on the receiving end of stares and ridicule. She resigns herself to a lifetime of loneliness until a handsome blind man arrives at her church...and sees the beauty she has on the inside.

Dale was once a peaceful town until a bloodless body shows up at the local park. Ivan doesn't think much of it until he meets a family in trouble and they throw him into their world full of vampires and nightmares!

Maggie has been put down all of her life. Pregnant and broke, she is works as a waitress to make ends meet before her baby arrives. The baby's father now wants nothing to do with her and she faces the shame of judgmental parents. A shy dishwasher, however, takes an interest in Maggie's plight and begins helping her out. Will he be the one person to lift her up?

Children are constantly complaining about the monster in the closet. As parents, we just shake it off as childhood fantasy. But what if the monsters are real? What if they want something from our children?Jerry is a Collector, and each night he is sent into bedrooms to gather specimens to study so that experts can either fix his world, or help them find a new one.

Loaded with plot twists and surprises, this short story delivers a powerful message about forgiveness and how our life affects other people, even those we don't know. The book is widely endorsed by therapists and ministry leaders because it helps the listener to be set free from the bondage of unforgiveness.

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.

Lo Zen non si può descrivere con le parole, lo zen si può solo vivere. Le storie zen sono un mezzo per cogliere, da un'ombra proiettata su un muro, qualcosa del fiore dello zen. Queste 54 storie sono state tradotte dalla collezione che John Suler ha fatto di storie zen o taoiste già pubblicate o che gli sono state raccontate o inviate sul suo sito "Zen Stories to tell your neighbors".

This heartwarming children’s book will empower children of all ages with valuable themes of friendship, loyalty, and courage. Kids will adore hearing about Lulu’s adventure while it imparts important lessons about embracing being different and staying true to yourself, even if you feel like you don’t fit in.

Brian Sutton moves into a new house, with his son Mark. Everything is normal for the first week, then things begin to change for the worse. Brian wakes at 3:13 a.m., to his son carrying on a conversation with an unknown man. Brian rushes to his son's room, worried someone has broken in, but when he checks the room, his son is asleep in bed. Before Brian can figure out what is going on, the door at the end of the hallway opens up, and his son walks out of the bathroom.