European Tour 2012
Next Tuesday, October 23, 2012, I am departing on my third European tour. I really need to start making commemorative T-shirts! It’s always fun going on these European treks. But last year I got really ill in Germany. I’m hoping not to get sick this time. Getting sick in a foreign country is not something […]
ZOMBIE BOUNTY HUNTER M.D.
As I have mentioned here before, I’m in a movie called Shoplifting From American Apparel, which will premier in December at several theaters around the US. I’ve just begun working on my second feature film role, that of The Zen Priest in the film Zombie Bounty Hunter M.D.The movie was written and is being directed […]
Do Magic Mushrooms Work Like Meditation?
Let me try this again. Every time I make yet another attempt to explain the difference between the experiences available through the use of hallucinogenic drugs and the realities of long-term meditation practice, I vow that it will be the last time. And then a few months later I find myself doing it again. My […]
I’m On Drugs
Actually I’m not on any serious drugs right now. But yesterday I was. I’ve always been headache prone. But in the last couple weeks it’s gotten really bad. So I’ve been going to doctors trying to figure out what was happening. Yesterday, on the way to zazen at Hill Street Center the pain got so […]
Buddhist Superstition is Just As Much Bullshit As Any Other Kind of Superstition
Recently someone sent me the following email: I have a question – what’s your impression of The New Kadampa Tradition and the practise of “worshiping” or “venerating” Dorje Shugden? Is this all hogwash, or is there something of value in Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s teaching or is he just another charlatan? I replied: I’ve heard the name […]
