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Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals, 1969-1982

10 best books like Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals, 1969-1982 (Peter Matthiessen): Wanderers, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, FreakAngels, Volume 4, Living Buddha, Living Christ, FreakAngels, Volume 5, FreakAngels, Volume 6, The Story of Saiunkoku, Vol. 2, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, しまなみ誰そ彼 3 [Shimanami Tasogare 3]

Wanderers
AuthorChuck Wendig
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope.

Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she...
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
ISBN0834800799
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...
FreakAngels, Volume 4
AuthorWarren Ellis
ISBN1592910947
Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years ago, the world ended. Today, eleven strange 23-year-olds live in and defend Whitechapel, maybe the last real settlement in flooded London. The Freakangels have lived in fear of the return of...
Living Buddha, Living Christ
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1573225681
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
FreakAngels, Volume 5
AuthorWarren Ellis
ISBN1592911161
Six years ago, twelve psychic children accidentally used their powers to flood the world. Now they attempt to rebuild society and defend London's Whitechapel survivors from one of their own.

Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment....
FreakAngels, Volume 6
AuthorWarren Ellis
ISBN1592911331
Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years ago, they used their psychic powers in unison and accidentally flooded the world.  Today, they live in and defend Whitechapel, perhaps the last real settlement in soggy London, from the evil...
The Story of Saiunkoku, Vol. 2
AuthorKairi Yura
ISBN1421538350
Shurei Hong, destitute but of noble birth, has always dreamed of working as a civil servant in the imperial court of Saiunkoku, but women are barred from holding office. The emperor Ryuki, however, refuses to take command, leaving everything to his advisors. Shurei is asked to become a consort to the...
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0802135293
“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night....
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
AuthorAdrienne Maree Brown
ISBN1849352607
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent...
しまなみ誰そ彼 3 [Shimanami Tasogare 3]
AuthorYuhki Kamatani
ISBN4091897401
理解し合えないまま、それでも共に生きる。

夏祭りの苦い思い出を拭えぬまま迎えた新学期。
たすくは、想いを寄せる椿から文化祭の課題を
一緒にこなそうと誘われ、戸惑いながらも足を運ぶ。
しかし、すでに顔見知りである「談話室」のメンバーを
揶揄する椿の姿に、たすくは困惑と悲しみを抱えることに。
一方、「談話室」メンバーの内海の元に、かつての
部活仲間の小山が現れた。
小山は善意から、内海が今「男性として生きている」
ことを、部のOG達に知らしめようとするが…?

尾道を舞台に鎌谷悠希が描く
性と生と青春の物語、第3集。

【編集担当からのおすすめ情報】
この第3集ではカムアウト(性的指向や性自認などの表明)と
アウティング(同意を得ない形での、他者の性的指向や性自認
などの暴露)、そして「善意」についてのエピソードとなっています。
「よかれと思って」「あなたのために」「何も恥じ入ることはない」
といった言葉とともに示される、善意。
それは時として、人をひどく傷つけます。
そんな善意を目の前に提示された内海さんは、
いったいどんな思いを胸に秘めているのか。
ぜひ、皆様の目で確かめていただきたいです。.
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