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Author: Sumi Loundon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-06-15
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0861711777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are real stories about young Buddhists in their own words that affirm and inform the young adult Buddhist experience of trying to live in the modern world, and bring Buddhism into their lives.
Author: Sumi Loundon Kim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-02-08
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0861718003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an age when the Dalai Lama's image has been used to sell computers, rock stars have used tantra to enhance their image, and for many, Nirvana calls to mind a a favorite band, what does Buddhism mean to twenty-somethings? Blue Jean Buddha offers real stories about young Buddhists in their own words that affirm and inform the young adult Buddhist experience. This one-of-a-kind book is about the experiences of young people in America-from their late teens to early thirties-who have embraced Buddhism. Thirty-three first-person narratives reflect on a broad range of life-stories, lessons, and livelihood issues, such as growing up in a Zen center, struggling with relationships, caring for the dying, and using marathon running as meditation. Throughout, up-and-coming author Sumi Loundon provides an illuminating context for the tremendous variety of experiences shared in the book. Blue Jean Buddha was named a finalist in the 2002 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Multicultural Non-Fiction - Young Adult) as well in NAPRA's Nautilus Awards, in the Personal Journey/Memoir/Biography category.
Author: Maura O'Halloran
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-04-17
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0861712838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1979, 24-year-old Maura O'Halloran left her waitressing job in Boston and began her study of Zen in Japan. Today she is revered as a Buddhist saint, and a statue in her honor stands at the monastery where she lived. This is the story of her journey.
Author: James Ishmael Ford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1614290393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the Zen path. "I've found myself broken open," Ford says, "and found in that opening my fundamental connection to the whole world." What's more, If You're Lucky, Your Heart Will Break breathes new life into the Buddhist ideas of karma and rebirth - as well as the Buddhist precepts of ethical action - and finds for them kinship in other spiritual endeavors. Even the most cynical of hearts will find resonance in Ford's compassionate presentation of basic human truths.
Author: A J Hunter
Publisher: A J Hunter
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA game of power, money, and crime. Life in the pistol smoke is like a ticking bomb. Either you are wearing the explosive or throwing it at someone. Drama, a man rising from the streets, knows the deadly secret of this life. The hood shows no mercy to anyone. It is the battle of the fittest, and Drama wants to be the last man standing. Lifting his drug business from dust, he envisions a legacy that every breathing soul remembers. The only issue with dust is that it attracts corpses. A place where blood has a price and lust is the vitamin of life. He is hustling to carve heaven on earth for himself. The rain is about to get heavier and bloodier. Will he be able to reach the summit? In his world, either you sleep peacefully or sleep for a lifetime, Will the familiar monsters come out to play, or will he have to hunt them down one by one?
Author: Peter Manseau
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2004-10-04
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780743232777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion & beliefs.
Author: Robert Aitken
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1996-06-18
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1570622191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese dialogues between Robert Aitken Roshi, one of the first American-born Zen masters, and Brother David Steindl-Rast, the Roman Catholic monk and hermit, took place during a week-long retreat the two old friends undertook in 1991 in a remote part of the island of Hawaii. Their aim was to approach the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity in a fresh way, one that takes as its starting point a comparison of the personal experiences of the dialoguers—as a Buddhist and as a Christian, respectively—rather than abstract concepts. The result is the discovery of a surprising amount of common ground—the kind of shared experience that forms a solid foundation for further dialogue.
