Summary: Charlie Crews is an eccentric detective returning to the force after being wrongfully imprisoned. Back on the beat with his determined partner, Dani Reese, and his unusually Zen-like outlook toward the cases he investigates, this unconventional crime solver tries to catch the LA wrongdoers who really belong behind bars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LIFSummary: In a remote monastery high up in the mountains, an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he must lead his disciples away from their past ties to the outside world and its rapidly changing values, and point them toward their quest for enlightenment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bae Yong-kyun Productions [production company 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHYFrench, Hal W.
Summary: Simply put, Zen is mindfulness—extracting the most from a given moment. You are invited, through this book, to understand Zen. Zen is not exotic or difficult to attain. Rather, Zen is basic and available to anyone wishing to have a more fulfilling life. Think of everyday breathing and speaking, waking and sleeping, moving and staying, eating and drinking, working and playing, caring and loving,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Praxis International, Inc. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 FREBusch, Colleen Morton.
Summary: An account of how five monks saved the U.S.'s oldest Zen Buddhist monastery describes the monastery's location in a remote area that was plagued by hundreds of wildfires in 2008 and the monks' decision to remain behind when even firefighters were evacuated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.37 BUSNhất Hạnh
Summary: "The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration for transforming suffering and finding true joy. Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from it or cover it up by consuming. We find something to eat or turn on the television. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Parallax Press 2014